What is Google Wave?
I think everyone has heard about Google Wave, but what is it and how has it supposedly re-invented email? Below is a video which tries to explain just 2% of what Google Wave can do in simple terms. I am personally quite excited about The Wave and have been trying to get my hands on an invite but with no luck. Does anyone have any spare they would like to throw my way?
Google’s description below
Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
You can view the loooooong version of Google Waves developer preview below
Design
I am very interested in seeing how I can use Wave for commercial web design projects and how much it really does help when there are a few people collaborating on one project. It will be really good for bouncing ideas around, creating mood boards and presenting different snippets of information/images/links/videos etc. Having everything in one central place is another really handy feature. I currently use Google Docs for a lot of my admin work, Google Picasa web albums to host my images, Gmail for my email and Google Calendar to organise myself; so if all these tools can be used in collaboration I think Google Wave will be the next obvious step. I am not sure if the ‘live’ element is such a good thing at this point. I find it hard enough to drag myself away from refreshing my emails never mind seeing messages being written in real time. Once I have finally get my hands on an invite I will give you an update.
Some useful links below:
Google Wave Live Collaboration Video
Google Wave – Natural Language Processing Video
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