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Google WAVE.

• What is it?
• How is it?
• Where is it?
• Why ?
• When ?

What is Google wave?

”   Google Wave is a real-time communication platform. It combines aspects of email, instant messaging, wikis, web chat, social networking, and project management to build one elegant, in-browser communication client. You can bring a group of friends or business partners together to discuss how your day has been or share files.

Google Wave has a lot of innovative features, but here are just a few:

- Real-time: In most instances, you can see what someone else is typing, character-by-character.

- Embeddability: Waves can be embedded on any blog or website.

- Applications and Extensions: Just like a Facebook application or an iGoogle gadget, developers can build their own apps within waves. They can be anything from bots to complex real-time games.

- Wiki functionality: Anything written within a Google Wave can be edited by anyone else, because all conversations within the platform are shared. Thus, you can correct information, append information, or add your own commentary within a developing conversation.

- Open source: The Google Wave code will be open source, to foster innovation and adoption amongst developers.

- Playback: You can playback any part of the wave to see what was said.

- Natural language: Google Wave can autocorrect your spelling, even going as far as knowing the difference between similar words, like “been” and “bean.” It can also auto-translate on-the-fly.

- Drag-and-drop file sharing: No attachments; just drag your file and drop it inside Google Wave and everyone will have access. “

How is it??

I am one of the lucky few to have been invited early on for Google Wave Preview. I was really pleased with what i saw.

I haven’t encountered any bugs or glitches as of now. I still think inviting more people for the preview would help Google Wave improvise. I haven’t had enough time to ride the WAVE But from what i have explored I feel it is surely a Game Changer.

With WAVE you will surely be using some new lingo such as :

“ Wave: A wave, specifically, refers to a specific threaded conversation. It can include just one person, or it can include a group of users or even robots (explained below). The best comparison I can make is that it’s like your entire instant messaging (IM) history with someone. Anything you’ve ever discussed in a single chat or conversation is a wave.

- Wavelet: A wavelet is also a threaded conversation, but only a subset of a larger conversation (or a wave). It’s like a single IM conversation – a small part of a larger conversation and a larger history. Wavelets, though, can be created and managed separately from a wave.

- Blip: Even smaller than a Wavelet, a Blip is a single, individual message. It’s like a single line of an IM conversation. Blips can have other blips attached to them, called children. In addition, blips can either be published or unpublished (once again, it’s sort of like typing out an IM message but not yet sending it).

- Document: A document actually refers to the content within a blip. This seems to refer to the actual characters, words, and files associated with a blip.

- Extension: An extension is a mini-application that works within a wave. So these are the apps you can play with while using Wave. There are two main types of extenisons: Gadgets and Robots

- Gadgets: A gadget is an application users can participate with, many of which are built on Google’s OpenSocial platform. A good comparison would be iGoogle gadgets or Facebook applications.

- Robots: Robots are an automated participant within a wave. They can talk with users and interact with waves. They can provide information from outside sources (i.e.Twitter) or they can check content within a wave and perform actions based on them (i.e. provide you a stock quote if a stock name is mentioned).

- Embeded Wave: An embeded wave is a way to take a Google Wave and the conversation within it and place it on your website. Users could use this as a chatroom, as a way to contact you, or for something more. “

Where is it??

Right now it is with just a few 100000+ users & the 8 invites that they have.  So if you are lucky like me you could be riding the wave or else you would have to wait like the billions of users who have signed up and waiting for an invite.

Why?

Google WAVE is the brainchild of the same people who created Google Maps. I think the main reason was to use the leap frog tactic. The e-mail which is one of the most used feature of the internet has now become a commodity every portal can offer similar features and it has kind of reached a saturation point ( how do i know this ?? Cos companies started offering skins, themes to users.. so here the focus has moved from product to customer to be innovative) What was innovative in Gmail by embedding Gtalk has been copied by Yahoo. Hotmail seems to be going nowhere but southwards. Even though Gmail seems to be growing it needs to grow faster and bigger.. why? The reason is simple Google’s Business is Advertisement and Google wave is a  platform where users come together for a live session hence targeted advertisements to the group than the individual. ( Imagine this.. Group of friends sharing a Youtube video review of a latest Gadget through WAVE .. The advertisement on Youtube is now being viewed by the group than a single individual which will generate more revenue to Google… I dunno if Google had thought about this.. but i think that will eventually be done)

Its open source too

As per what Mashable reports ” WAVE powered forums, WAVE powered commenting system,WAVE for content management system, WAVE for customer support & WAVE for Education  are some of the future spaces for Google WAVE”

When ?? When will it be available to all??

If all things go as per planned and well maybe by 2010 we can expect a new way of communication that moves over from four decade old emails. So my prediction is that by end of 2009 Dec or 2010 Jan Google WAVE should be live … if ….there’s always an IF….IF the preview works out ;p

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