On September 30th Google started sending out Wave invitations to 100, 000 people in the general public. If successful Google Wave hopes to change the way we interact and redefine the web, as we know it.
What is a Wave? In Google’s words it “is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.”
What does that mean for us? Basically Google is trying to combine email, instant messaging, social networking, entertainment, media sharing, project management, document creation and pretty much everything we do on a computer into sharable Waves. These waves will be fully customizable and extendable by the user and will be embedded into a website that will be accessible through any Internet capable device; computer, phone etc.
Google Wave will be rewindable allowing its user to go back in time to see the developments of conversations and content. It will also be live allowing real time conversations and interactions to take place.
Google Wave could very well be the next internet craze that is used be people all over the world, however I don't think this will be an overnight sensation that everyone is using a year from now, I think it will take a few years to catch on and be used and understood by the Internet community.
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