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Yes, I’ve seen the future and it is a wave!
All you need is an hour and a half and you too will be able to peer into the crystal ball and see what’s coming down the pipes later this year and how this new technology from Google will impact our online lives in new and wonderful ways. Enjoy…

1. Why do we have to live with incompatible and inherently different types of communication — email versus chat, or conversations versus documents?
2. Could a single communications model span all or most of the systems in use on the web today, in one smooth continuum?
3. How simple could we make it?
4. What if we tried designing a communications system that took advantage of computers’ current abilities, rather than imitating non-electronic forms?

Google WAVE is the answer and if you’ve got an hour +++ and some refreshments, watch the video, give it some thought and then let us know what you might do with the wave… We’ve already started planning our collaborative extensions!

For those of you with less than an hour of available time and a bit of ADD, here is the 30’000 foot view:

A “wave” is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

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. That means that users of applications such as bug reporting, Customer support services, communication and decision making online just got a boost and companies that deliver collaboration platforms in this space are likely to get the boot.

Could Google Wave Redefine Email and Web Communication?  We think so but, let’s hear your thoughts.

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