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MARKETS » NFV Pandemic Tech News
June 26, 2009
Is Google Wave the Next Wave?By Gary Kim, Contributing Editor Though its ramifications and impact will not be clear for some time, Google (News - Alert) Wave, now under development at Google, could reshape "publishing" as much as it aims to refashion communications and collaborations.
These days, people use email, instant messaging, blos, wikis, tweets to communicate. But many of us also use those same tools for research and publishing.
In fact, one of the questions Google Wave developers asked themselves was "why do we have to live with divides between different types of communication: email versus chat, or conversations versus documents?"
In fact, ask yourself what a "document" is, how it gets created, displayed, changed, updated and circulated. Google Wave will attempt to combine many processes and blur the distinction between a social network, messages, documents, content, blogs, wikis and Web sites.
A "wave" is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and other content or items
Google Waves resemble wikis in the sense that others can add formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the Web. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly.
It's concurrent rich-text editing, where each participant can see on their screens nearly instantly what fellow collaborators are adding. That means Google Wave is just as well suited for quick messages as for persistent content.
So though it is intended as a communication and collaboration tool, if Wave gets traction, it is going to change the way people view "publishing" as well.
Gary Kim (News - Alert) is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Gary’s articles, please visit his columnist page. Edited by Jessica Kostek (source: http://hdvoice.tmcnet.com/topics/unified-communications/articles/58831-google-wave-next-wave.htm) |
