There has been positive reaction amongst industry experts as Google announced one of its most ambitious projects or service called the “Google Wave.” According to project leader Lars Rasmussen, the idea for the Google Wave came from a question, which is “What might e-mail look like if it were invented today?”
The Google Wave is still in the development stage. This is a browser-based tool that will have the ability to integrate e-mail with Instant Messaging as well as various real-time online collaboration elements. According to Jordon Golson, the contributing editor for The Industry Standard and GigaOm.com, it will be a competitor Office and Outlook if Google decides to roll out Gmail/Docs/Cal under the umbrella of Google Wave. Not only this, it will also become a strong competitor of Microsoft SharePoint.
There are some industry experts who believe that the Google Wave is an elaborate mix of assimilation, collaboration, documentation, as well as real-time messaging. Describing Google Wave in one sentence would be quite difficult, but here’s our take on it.
- Google Wave is being considered as a service that is more like an expensive client software
- The Wave will behave more like a sophisticated or high-end threaded e-mail
- It will acts just like any IM especially when there are multiple collaborators online at the same time.
- The Wave is targeting to become the most effective real-time collaborative tools
- It has a feature that enables revision marking as well as versioning for work-group editing.
- It will enable instant image sharing
- Its functionality will ensure that it can be embedded into social networks or blogs
- According to Google, it is built-in with a revolutionary spell checker
- It will be available with mobile functionalities that are compatible with iPhone and Android
- This is an open-source project, which will enable developers to write using both Wave extensions as well as their own servers.
According to Harry McCracken of Technologizer.com, “It’s one of the most ambitious services that Google or anyone else has cooked up”. As of moment, Google Wave can only be used by developers who are interested in building different types of applications for this tool.
Google Wave Project leader Lars Rasmussen has made this statement at the official Google blog: “A wave is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. 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.”
One of the main reasons why industry experts are looking at Google Wave in positive light is because it is expected to be “the e-mail technology” of the 21st Century and it can very well be a rival to Microsoft Sharepoint and Twitter.
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