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 Google reckons that email resembles older, outdated forms of communication far too closely.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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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.

It has been referred to as a game-changer for communication and even the death of e-mail. So how is Google Wave going to back these statements up? With key features that make Google Wave much cleaner, more efficient and just more fun than e-mail. Let’s take a look below.

How is it different from e-mail?
Google Waves are messages between two or more people online. Google claims that the idea of e-mail came more than 40 years ago. So, with the help of the two brothers who invented Google Maps, the Google team sat down and recreated an online messaging tool that is more efficient and also comes with all the bells and whistles of Web 2.0.

Features

Real-Time Updates. Updates to Waves will be real-time. Real-time means the days of clicking “send” after you type your message are over. With Google Wave your text will simply appear to all recipients as you type it. So if you and your co-worker have a Wave open at the same time, his or her words appear as they type them. After your co-worker is done typing, there will be no need to click a send button because the message will already be visible to you. (For those of you concerned about your case of chronic impulse typing, real-time updates can be disabled.)

Web site and Blog Embedding. Your wave can also function as a dynamic part of your blog or Web site. If you choose, you can embed your Wave onto your blog or Web site so you or all of the people included in the Wave can update your blog or Web site in real-time with ease.

Wiki Functionality. You may not know this, but before it became today’s go-to encyclopedia, Wikis were primarily used internally among employees of companies for editing documents. Google Wave is bringing this technology into homes and offices with easy accessibility. Imagine being able to have four co-workers attached to a Wave with the ability to all read a document and make changes as necessary without having to print it out and send it through the office.

Random Fact: Before Facebook went international they used a Wiki-type service to have the social network translated in numerous languages. They put out a request to bilingual users of the English site and asked them to comb through the content and translate it into whatever language they knew other than English. The plan worked and they had their site translated cost-free by users of Facebook.

Gadgets within Google Waves. Much like blogs and Web sites today, you will be able to have gadgets functioning within your Wave. One of the gadgets that has been shown off is a translation tool. It works like this: you are talking to someone from Russia and neither one of you are fluent in the other’s native tongue. As you both start the Wave with each other you also enable the translation gadget. As you type to your recipient the gadget takes the message in real-time and translates it for you. This in turn creates a seamless conversation between two people who do not speak the same language.

Message rewind. If you are invited to a Wave a week after it was started you will probably have a few questions as far as what chronological order messages were typed. This will not be much of a problem. First off, these messages will probably look something like your Facebook wall today. Someone posts a message, and someone else can leave a comment under that message. If that is not enough for you, you can rewind the message back to the beginning so you can watch what order each addition was added.

How can you get a Google Wave account?
Right now the only way you can get an account is if someone you know has one already and they nominate you to be an early user. If you do not know anyone with an account, then you have to wait for the full release, which is unknown at this time.

We are already seeing progression in terms of how we communicate and share information on the web with the introduction of cloud computing and Google Wave, both of which will certainly have a massive effect on the way we work together in the workplace, but more importantly remotely.

Will the 21st century office become mostly virtual? Virtual offices have grown in popularity in recent years. This is due to SME’s realising the benefits of outsourcing basic tasks to other companies in order to focus on their core competences. As well as this many businesses choose to use these services to enhance their image, providing an impression of prestige, size and professionalism.

Google Wave is set to change the way people communicate and work together online with richly formatted text, documents and other media. It is basically a shared virtual workspace whereby people can enter, leave and participate in real-time, essentially it’s a live transmission. As a result it will enable people to work remotely with greater flexibility, but also integrate with colleagues and friends more closely. For virtual offices this will present lots of opportunities to provide more services and integrate with clients more closely.

As well as this cloud computing will render the need for most companies to store and maintain large servers on-site. It will mean all of our information and photos etc will be safely stored and accessible from anywhere anytime.

Google Wave and cloud computing will no doubt have a major impact on the way we work together and how we do it. The businesses which quickly adopt and learn how to use this technology will benefit and perhaps gain an advantage. The virtual office industry will no doubt adapt and incorporate it to offer a variety of services which will help SME’s. The workplace is definitely changing and it will be interesting to see how it evolves in the next 10 to 20 years.

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I was very enthusiastic to try to wave groups, are not you? As of now sets Wave is in the development stage, not yet open to the general public. Google plans to give 100,000 calls a public beta on 30 September.

But if you’re a developer and you really want to try the wave of groups outside, here is how you can get on the wave by all groups and try one of the largest communications platform over the Internet than ever before:

1. Go to Google Wave page on code.google.com

2. Click on “Request Sandbox Access” from the menu on the right.

3. Fill in the form on the next page.

4. You will receive an invitation email in about 1-3 weeks. Fill in your account details like desired username, password etc using the link in the email.

5. Within 1-3 days, you will get your sign in details to your Google Wave developer sandbox account.

6. You will receive details for two account, one for the one you requested “username@googlewavesandbox.com” and other a test id (username-test@googlewavesandbox.com) for testing Google Wave’s collaborative features (as only a few people are testing it right now so your friend might not be using it right now for you to be able to test with them).

Done!

Google Wave Basic Values

Unique Interaction: Google wave provide you the freedom to interact with each other and in different documents. Users can collaborate on projects with videos, text, maps and blogs.

Drag and Drop: Users are capable to drag and drop files, documents or multimedia into the wave, after that, let other users edit that files, documents or multimedia in real time.

Share: Google wave changes the way you share a document or messages in email. A wave talks in relation to the movement of participation. You are capable to add participants in a message. Also the participants are provided the chance to reply and edit anywhere in the message. If anyone wants to view the previous messages, they can use the playback to rewind the conversations to the beginning of the message.

Interact in Real Time: When you add and edit to your messages, it is similar to instant message. The other participant is capable to see what you are typing by means of live transmission.

Community Etiquette of Google Wave

Google wave provide the ability to edit any part of a wave. A number of etiquette has sprung up to try and make life more manageable for wave operator.

• The first Blip in a wave must be considered non-editable by other participants. The first blip must be the wave description and wave title.
• Don’t add bots or gadgets unless you actually need them. Don’t add any at all if it is a public wave just leave it for the owner of the wave to decide. In fact, lots of gadgets and bots can cause a wave to crash.
• Empty blip must be clean. If in case you unintentionally start some blips with miss clicks be sure to clean up after yourself so others don’t have to.

Google Wave Workflow

Email: Email is the most frequently used tool in the Internet. Its feature is almost similar to the traditional email. On the other hand, by means of Google wave you have the chance to see the email at the other end at the time the individual is writing his email. At the same time you are capable to edit his work. Also you can invite another individual to the wave or conversation all at the same time as well. In addition, he can playback all the changes made from the time it all started and also you can see who made changes in the wave.

Platform: Google wave provides the freedom to its users to create new extensions or to embed waves. A few of these extensions are bog posting, spell checker, recognizes the link you entered easily and provides you automatic options what to do.

Protocol: It is a tool that is being use to tore or share waves. The importance of this is that anyone can manage or operate their own wave server as well as interoperate other wave servers.