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Today we are going to touch on what could very well revolutionise communication on the internet – Google Wave. Announced in May and scheduled for release later this year, Google Wave is a new tool for collaboration on the web. It brings together a range of separate communication methods and media (such as email, chat, twitter, video, document sharing, gadgets etc) into a single platform or piece of software that is fully customisable to the users needs. Wave is the brainchild of a Sydney based team, who noticed that two of the most spectacular successes in digital communication, email and instant messaging, were originally designed in the '60s to imitate analog formats — email mimicked snail mail, and IM mimicked phone calls. So they asked themselves these questions: hy do we have to live with divides between different types of communication — email versus chat, or conversations versus documents? Could a single communications model span all or most of the systems in use on the web today, in one smooth continuum? How simple could we make it? What if we tried designing a communications system that took advantage of computers' current abilities, rather than imitating non-electronic forms? And Google Wave was born. To get an idea of how Google wave can work, take a look at the following links. I’m pretty sure this will revolutionise how we communicate and interact on the internet. The Wave originators comments:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/went-walkabout-brought-back-google-wave.html A brief overview of Wave:
http://mashable.com/2009/05/28/google-wave-guide/ The Google Wave website with preview video:
http://wave.google.com/
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