The Rising Wave of Collaboration - Google Wave
While wandering through blog sites I came across an article on Google Wave at Joho the Blog. My curiosity was piqued, so I watched the lengthy demo of Wave given at the Google IO 2009 developers conference. The Rassmuson brothers (software geniuses who gave us Google Maps) have developed a potentially transformative product called Wave.
Wave represents (IMHO) a paradigmatic change in thinking about online communication. Google plans to release Wave later this year. The fact that the engine will be released as open source may result in tsunami of fascinating web-based, in-browser apps that begin to redefine how we think about email, IM, Twitter, blogging, Wikis, etc.
Rather than trying to describe Wave, check out some of the features demonstrated in the Google presentation. Given the length of the video, you may want to scrub through some of the “talking” parts to quickly get to various feature demos.
