1) E-Mail
2) Instant Messaging
3) Social Networking
4) E-Mail+IM+Social Networking+Waving???
What can Google possibly bring to the table that hasn't been covered by Facebook and Myspace et al?
Well they are confident they can with their 'Wave' experiment.
To breakdown what this new and exciting ploy from Google to further dominate cyber-space is, we must first find out what on earth a 'Wave' is.
According to Google
What is a wave?
A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.
A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.
via: Google
This is based on creating communication threads or waves across different platforms that are instantly updated as they are being created. I think of it as a big e-discussion forum, where you can post items, discuss, vote, nudge and the best feature; editing the actual text your fellow 'Waver' is typing.
If your still confused think of it as a mash-up between;
Google Mail
-Ability to send and receive e-mail
-Add pictures, music and documents instantly
Instant Messenger
-Real time conversation - The closest text has come to being a real conversation
-Drag and drop attachments
-Multi-person conversations - conference style outlay
Flickr/Picasa
-The graphical and visual functionalities are very Web 2.0
-Sharing/Editing photos has never been easier
Games
-According to the 1hour+ video lecture on Google Wave, they mentioned there is an extension for embedding interactive games like chess in a wave and also an extension to integrate Twitter tweets.
There is no denying Google is treading in new waters with 'Wave'.
Although still in the BETA stage ,one can see there is A LOT of potential in Google Wave and its features.
But can Google introduce and successfully implement their new Web 2.0 platform, among the sea of options available to us through Facebook, Myspace, hi5 and ICQ etc?
If anyone can - its Google.
L.W
2) Instant Messaging
3) Social Networking
4) E-Mail+IM+Social Networking+Waving???
What can Google possibly bring to the table that hasn't been covered by Facebook and Myspace et al?
Well they are confident they can with their 'Wave' experiment.
To breakdown what this new and exciting ploy from Google to further dominate cyber-space is, we must first find out what on earth a 'Wave' is.
According to Google
What is a wave?
A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.
A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.
via: Google
This is based on creating communication threads or waves across different platforms that are instantly updated as they are being created. I think of it as a big e-discussion forum, where you can post items, discuss, vote, nudge and the best feature; editing the actual text your fellow 'Waver' is typing.
If your still confused think of it as a mash-up between;
Google Mail
-Ability to send and receive e-mail
-Add pictures, music and documents instantly
Instant Messenger
-Real time conversation - The closest text has come to being a real conversation
-Drag and drop attachments
-Multi-person conversations - conference style outlay
Flickr/Picasa
-The graphical and visual functionalities are very Web 2.0
-Sharing/Editing photos has never been easier
Games
-According to the 1hour+ video lecture on Google Wave, they mentioned there is an extension for embedding interactive games like chess in a wave and also an extension to integrate Twitter tweets.
There is no denying Google is treading in new waters with 'Wave'.Although still in the BETA stage ,one can see there is A LOT of potential in Google Wave and its features.
But can Google introduce and successfully implement their new Web 2.0 platform, among the sea of options available to us through Facebook, Myspace, hi5 and ICQ etc?
If anyone can - its Google.
L.W
for online collaboration i recommend http://www.showdocument.com
it is free & entirely web-based. - Josh