I have decided to start a new section about new and fascinating technology because quite simply it gives me Google, MSN and Yahoo! Hits… :)
Just kidding, I am a technophile and have been one since I was in 6th grade back in um…early 80’s, when technology started really coming to the consumer section of the world. But I digress more on me later….
GOOGLE's WAVE
Google announced a new technology that they will be handing over to the open source community. Yes an application, thought of, frame worked, designed and released over the past 2 years from it’s conception in the beginning of 2007. This new technology surpasses and blurs the lines of many of our current independent technologies of today. Some of these technologies remain on your desktop taking up space on your hard drive while others are virtual applications that can not be made private, thus exposing all your ideas, thoughts, conversations and rhetoric all over cyberspace for anyone to read.
Some say this new technology medium will replace or destroy social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook and even Twitter (link). Others speculate that it is so potentially good it could take on, replace or even challenge Microsoft’s Sharepoint application.(link)No matter what it may or may not replace, currently it is in beta and only the 4000 people present at the introduction have accounts currently, the rest of us will have to wait until closer to the end of the year.
So what is Google’s new WAVE Product? It is an Instant Messenger(IM), Email, LIVE Collaboration, Auto Blogging to your favorite social site, and to some extent media presentations. It is capable of universal spell check, word usage and the icing on the cake a live translator for up to 40 languages. Soon it will have other extended features of a spreadsheet, database, Presentation tool and more.
What can you do with WAVE? Google engineer Lars Rasmussen wrote this in his blog of 5/28/2009, (link) "In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it. Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the Web. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly. It's concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave. That means Google Wave is just as well suited for quick messages as for persistent content -- it allows for both collaboration and communication. You can also use 'playback' to rewind the wave and see how it evolved."
How Private is WAVE? The one used by the Google WAVE demonstration below was a sandbox copy running on Google’s servers. It was quick and robust for a beta showing, but Google wanted to make sure people understood the extent of the flexibility. This open source WAVE will be able to be hosted by ISP’s, Google servers, or your own private server can run it. AND NO The Private messages used on your own company server will not become public.
Okay how extensible is it?
Google’s WAVE was designed fully with Google’s own Web Toolkit (link), which has extensibility as almost a theme of development with it. The video (again below) shows how it can use simple widgets and gadgets built with the set of API’s and GWT can empower the application to do live Tweets, live Blog post, games, media sharing, content building with collaboration teams and more! More at Code.Google.com/APIS/WAVE AND AT WAVEProtocol.org
How portable is it? Have you heard of the iPhone and the Google G1 Android phone? The demonstration show that since WAVE runs in a browser using HTML 5 it is extremely portable and at least in my opinion far easier to keep up with conversations, work and even social media postings.
As I hope I got your attention with this article, keep in mind that the new WAVE will not only be saving people time in doing real work, but saving space on their hard drive. With WAVE you won’t have to install IM clients, Email Clients and in the future lots of other productivity software will all be embedded in the WAVE system.
GOOGLE's WAVE
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