Google Wave : the future of internet communication

Google recently gave a developers preview of their new upcoming project The GOOGLE WAVE.This is unlike Google which has always believed in user getting to know about the product once it is ready and pass the beta stage.However, in this case Google decided to follow this path primarily for a very simple reason as explained here.Google Wave and for that matter ny new application in today’s world relies on a number of other smaller API’s developed by individual users.In order to avoid the gap between releasing the public version and availability of the various cool API’s that Google expects people would develop, it is necessary that these developers are allowed access to the API’s and protocol structures.Hence, the idea of a keynote address the Apple style.

What is Google Wave ?

Google Wave is a product that helps users communicate and collaborate on the web. A “wave” is equal parts conversation and document, where users can almost instantly communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Google Wave is also a platform with a rich set of open APIs that allow developers to embed waves in other web services and to build extensions that work inside waves.

Google Wave aims at uniting the various means of communication that internet offers today.With a live environment it aims to replace emails and voice chats as the single new means of communication.

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.

Here’s how it works: 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.

As with all recent projects by Google aka the Android  and Chrome, this too is expected to be Open Source.Lets see how the world reponses to the change in the basic means of communication.The wave surely has started , let’s wait for the resonance.

For further information and the API’s please go to www.wave.google.com

~ by Tuhin Kumar on June 2, 2009.