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Could Google Wave Redefine Email and Web Communication?

February 2nd, 2010 at 09:15am Under Google Wave

Google promised to deliver something spectacular on the second day of the Google I/O conference, and they did not disappoint. Google has just announced Google Wave, a new in-browser communication and collaboration tool that is already being hailed by some as the next evolution of email. Yes, Google Wave is potentially that disruptive.

Created by two of the guys behind Google Maps with a small team in Sydney, the concept behind Google Wave is to “unify” communication on the web. It’s a hybrid of email, web chat, IM, and project management software. It features the ability to replay conversations because it records the entire sequence of communication, character by character. Because of this, discussions are also live in Google Wave: you will see your friend’s type character-by-character.

The key to it all is the faster line of communication. Attaching documents, like you do in email, is unnecessary in Google Wave. Real-time conversations and collaboration make it an ideal tool for business teams as well. Imagine an entire office having Google Wave open to quickly share and receive files. It combines some of people’s favorite aspects of many different web communication tools.

I suddenly started to day dream on how Google Wave could solve many of my web development issues. Google Wave could potentially allow a team to collaborate with clients directly and in real-time during the User Acceptance Testing phase in any web development project. If we could have the ability to see proposed changes in real-time and apply the edits as the client sees it happens, we could save valuable time and money.

Is Google Wave the Wave of the Future?

Google Wave aims to be the future of email Gmail, IM, and Docs all rolled into one. Email has been around for about 40 years now. In fact, it pre-dates the internet by good few years and even the fanciest Live Mail or MobileMe system in the world still closely resembles the system put in place all those years ago. So if it ain t broke, don t fix, right? Err, wrong. Google reckons that email resembles older, outdated forms of communication far too closely. Email is basically an electronic representation of how the postal service works, albeit faster, cheaper and considerably less likely to get left in the back of warehouse somewhere. So the internet monster is working on Google Wave, a rethink of the whole email idea.

Is Google Wave the Wave of the Future?

While I have not been invited to participate in Wave, I have been following their progress. A number of folks have posted their impressions of Wave for others to see. The question is of this is really the next evolution of communications. On one hand, it is clearly a new way of thinking about conversations and the dialog between participates. However, it seems to lack any capability to support intimate conversations. As a public or non-intimate forum, it appears to do a fine job. I do question the value of seeing others type their responses in real time. I think this would be an unnecessary burden on the communications network for minimal value. On the other hand, I might change my mind if they would invite me in to the trial!!!!

During the Google I/O keynote, Google’s VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra , laid out a grand vision for the direction Google sees the web heading towards with the move to the HTML 5 standard. While we’re not there yet, the entire Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication dawn is upon us

Android Phone Fans — Google Wave and Google Gadgets you can play embeddable games like Sudoku in a wave: So how does this fit into Android? Well… it works on Mobile phones… like Google Android phones… and they demo Google Wave on an Android device and iPhone. Holy awesomeness and world-about-to-be-taken-overness! Right now you’re probably asking: “Where do I sign up?” Good question… and I’ve got the answer: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignup/ Google Wave is looking pretty crazy.

Could Google WAVE goodbye to twitter?

The Google Maps team, lead by Lars and Jens Rasmussen, have developed an application to allow people to communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps and other tools, all within a standard browser. I think that allot of twitter fans could leave “the fail away” because of Google Wave. This one it looks to be one of the best web based app build in the last years. Probably will be a Facebook killer too.

Who will ride Google’s Wave?

Twitter/Facebook on steroids. I can certainly see uses for it in project management, events organization, news sharing and decision making in a crisis situation and so on. If people make apps for it too then who knows what else?

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How will Google Wave change IT?

February 1st, 2010 at 03:07pm Under Google Wave+ Google Wave News

Google blew the minds of developers with the introduction of innovative combinations of Wave, a new approach to real-time content cooperation, but the prospects for breezing to an enterprise computing any time soon are still remote.

IT departments within institutions, and starving for compelling ways to cooperate in the development of the application, however, you may find a ready audience Wave Groups. Computing project is still in the Stone Age, according to modern standards, a nice theme addressed by Britain’s Financial Times recently. While the Internet offers consumers a variety of ways to connect (via Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, and other services), and the institution is still a somewhat buttoned-down, down to Microsoft Exchange and threw a cross with IBM Lotus. Excuse me while I stifle a yawn.

This is not necessarily Microsoft or IBM’s fault, of course. Show all other products that push the envelope on the computerization of companies. But it is difficult for organizations to easily digest the rapid-fire innovation, and it is not exactly easy for software vendors to recover the investments in the innovation leader, either, according to Stephen O’Grady, RedMonk noted in its review of Wave Groups: We do not see that there are a lot of leaps forward in the field of software, I’d say, both because it is difficult to develop and introduce products, revolutionary, and because the economy did against them. It is difficult, of course, to produce them: How can I carry a lot of vendors and indulgence in the diversion of resources of high quality loose on the project for several years without a clear plan of income in place? But it can be even more difficult in the market (or the sale of such revolutionary products) because, well, they are not what people used to, and they take some explaining. Therefore, given that groups wave has moved much further than most institutions are able to willing to accept, at least until now, what good is it? Most software in the world … It is written by companies for internal use.

Equitas IT Solutions’ Ryan Cartwright suggests an answer. It shows that the Almog report “… an opportunity to achieve significant improvement in the way that the development of free software.” He was absolutely right, but why stop there?

Most of the software in the world is not written by the developers of open source software, as it is not written by Microsoft or other traditional software vendors. They are written by companies for internal use. In this way, if Google is Wave has the ability to facilitate the development of software by facilitating real-time collaboration on the code – and it does – then why not unleash their potential within the application and development of institutions? Google wave may crash on the beach for the adoption of projects, but I think it may roll into the institution, and in any event, in collaboration tool symbol, published by information technology for its own use. In the end, that “personal” and should be consumed as little business users are demanding their institutions – the experience of computing to catch up the world of consumer computing. This could be Google to lose the game.

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