Google’s next big thing on the market, is Google Wave. Google Wave is a creative way for people communicate and work at the same time. The service utilizes existing google products, Gmail and Google Docs working as an extension them to create a great tool for communication using these products to organize documents collaboratively, plan events, play games or discuss recent news.
When communication you communicate in Google Wave, you create a new event called a wave. SO what is a wave? Quoted from Google
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.
Does this sound familiar? (Go down to the next section for EXPLANATION) It can also even be viewed as a social networking site in a sense, but with Google products. So imagine Facebook with it’s applications but under Google’s name. It’s pretty straight forward here’s a video on Google Wave.
What I think about this
Now this seems funny to me that Google decided to launch this but it seems as though this is twitter but BETTER! The whole purpose of twitter is updates and allowing people to follow you which main component is communication. I guess if Facebook was trying to buy Twitter for 500 million dollars it would raise some eyebrows. And since Twitter refuse offers to allow people to acquire the company I guess Google came up with this saying, “So if you can’t buy twitter just create something like twitter, lol”.
I’m starting to see a trend with Google now. It seems as though Google’s business model isn’t about creating new technology but jumping onto something that is popular or widely use and making it better. And it seems as though the next trend is communication. So let’s see if people will decide to tweet or ride the wave.
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