Google Wave - a new Era in Online Communication

A few days ago Google has announced a launch of new online application Google Wave. Google team is hugely enthusiastic about it and speaks of it as a new word in online communication. This new service  combines every known and hitherto unknown tools - Instant messaging, email, micro-blogging, collectively edited micro social networks and many more.

It can be used for great many things, but the most important to me is online conferencing/group discussion, where everyone can contribute at the same time. With Google Wave you can share all kind of information from plain text to presentations, photos, videos etc. But what is more everyone can edit contributions of other group members.

Why would you need this?! Simple. Imagine you have a team of colleagues working on a collaborative project. You need to meet them quite often to discuss progress and make plans, but those people are physically remote from you most of the time. So what’s the solution? How can you meet more often and less effortlessly than travelling hundred of miles for regular meetings? And the answer is……… Waves!

You knew it’s coming, didn’t you?!

Well, it’s really the case. Google wave will allow you to run and control a collective project together with a team of people no matter how far away you are from each other. You can also communicate with your friends and family, exchanging thoughts and plans instantly.

Even if you dont’ have a computer with Internet connection, you can use your mobile or I-phone to send waves, and that you can do pretty much anywhere.

This new service is still in the development stage and will be launched later this year. The great thing about it is that it’s an open source protocol, so everyone can develop it and create new gadgets.

The link I gave you includes an 80 minutes video. You’ll probably find it a way too long to watch entirely. But if you have a patience to at least browse it, you may be rewarded with important discoveries on a personal level.

Who knows, perhaps it will become the tool No.1 for both your business and personal relations in the very near future. If so, it may be better to learn it sooner and take advantage of it while others are slowly catching up.

So what are you waiting for? - go on, take a look. I am  not tempting you, just giving you a tip. It’s a pity Google doesn’t pay me for referring its products; I think I have done a pretty good job, and all for free. Oh, what a shame!

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