Here Comes Google Wave: Google’s Trying to Take Over The World
Wave? What is that? What is Google’s new bid for world domination? Well, to be specific, Google Wave is a “web based service, computing platform, and communications protocol built to combine email, instant messaging, wiki, and social networking.”
In easier terms, it implies they’d like to make one web application ( keep in mind this is all based around HTML five ) which will integrate email, IM, your Twitter and Facebooks of the Earth, wikipedia entries, Photobucket type sharing and more, all in one window. And open it up for developers to take it in whatever direction they want from there. Briefly they want to take over the world. And I signed up for the beta. (That is all that it is right now, 100,000 people will be given invitations later).
Huh? It sounds like it is a combination of everything. And…it just about is. And it seems like it does it very very well. And in my humble opinion, it’ll change EVERYTHING.
I actually do believe that there are large social, business and casual implications to a platform that is trying to combine each one of our major online services into one platform. And I don’t mean they will just have a window here for email, and a window over there for IM, and a window up here for Twitter and put in all in one massive window. No, this goes deeper.
They want to integrate the backwards and forwards threading, forwarding, replies and attachments of email, combine it into an IM style real-time talk system ( totally with literal real time, character by character updates of you typing, instead of seeing “Joe is typing” for an hour ), add some VCR features ( any new people added to a “Wave” can see a play-by-play of the conversation as it happened ), permit users to concurrently upload, download, and delete photographs and integrate an exceedingly complex spell checker into the whole process – with this one Google puts a bid on undoing the damage the previous couple of years have done to our “lol u guz r da gr8tst” youth. And if you can’t read that, don’t hurt your cortex trying to, I did just writing it.
Add in the plain fact they are opening this up to development, open source style, and you have got something that’ll be as sizeable as Facebook, at least in the applications side of things.
Think about if enterprises were to take on Google Wave in great numbers. Pizza Hut gets Wave, and offers it to their customers. The pizza shop tweets through Wave a special deal they are offering for the day. Buyer A decides he wants to reserve a pizza based on the Tweet she or he receives through Wave. Rather than calling, or working thru the net ordering system, perhaps an application has been developed for Wave that allows the buyer and an employee direct conversation for placing an order. The consumer jumps into a new wave with a restaurant worker, the worker takes the order and everybody is happy.
This is a straightforward example that possibly will not even be close to anything that may come out, I am sure what will come along will be Way more cool than anything that I could think of.
Think about for enterprises. You are working in an internet based company, perhaps providing website design, programming, Minneapolis search engine optimization, and admin services for a client. The business implications are Gigantic for this, particularly on big projects, with multiple departments working on one single project, or collaborations thru different departments.
Even in my business, a digital camera repair if I have got a electronic camera repair that one of my staff is working on and I am on the road with my Netbook, I will just Wave with the worker to find out the status and give that info straight to the consumer all terribly simply!
So if you are thinking about it even a little bit, get on board, and use the Wave. I firmly believe this can change the face of things, the same way email, IM or social media has changed things.




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