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Google Wave: Real time communication

Written on October 7, 2009 | Posted in Reviews, Top Tech News |

google wave logo Google Wave: Real time communication Google Wave , a new product released by the big Google is now a new sensation among the geek world as well a great curiosity too. Google team has been working on this project for the last more than two years and Google wave, a real time communication service was first previewed at Google I/O 2009 on May 28 of this year. That time it seemed to combine Gmail & Google docs into an interesting free-form workspace that could be used to write documents collaboratively, plan events, play games or discuss a recent news.

Since then the world has been impatiently waiting for its release.

Finally, on Wednesday, September 30th , 2009 Google started sending out invitations to preview Google wave. During this preview period they look forward to hearing feedback from groups of people on the different ways to use wave.

According to Google wave team-

” A “wave” is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. ”

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How it works is also described by Google wave team-

“In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it. Everyone on your wave can use richly 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 you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave. That means Google Wave is just as well suited for quick messages as for persistent content - it allows for both collaboration and communication. You can also use “playback” to rewind the wave and see how it evolved.”

Google Wave has been designed by the founders of Where 2 Tech, a start-up acquired by Google to create a cutting-edge mapping service, which later became Google Maps.

Lets know the background of Google wave in Lars Rasmussen’s words-
“Back in early 2004, Google took an interest in a tiny mapping startup called Where 2 Tech, founded by my brother Jens and me. We were excited to join Google and help create what would become Google Maps. But we also started thinking about what might come next for us after maps.

As always, Jens came up with the answer: communication. He pointed out that two of the most spectacular successes in digital communication, email and instant messaging, were originally designed in the ’60s to imitate analog formats - email mimicked snail mail, and IM mimicked phone calls. Since then, so many different forms of communication had been invented - blogs, wikis, collaborative documents, etc. - and computers and networks had dramatically improved. So Jens proposed a new communications model that presumed all these advances as a starting point, and I was immediately sold.”

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Actually, Google wave has created such curiosity among the people that some people are ready to pay $27000 to get the opportunity to use it. Again others are offering people to subscribe to their blogs, newsletters, marketing ploys to have a shot at one invite. Twitter trolls are harvesting Followers by asking folk to Follow and ReTweet their offering of Google Wave invites.

Primarily, Google allows 1 Lac people to experience it by invitations similar to the launch of Gmail beta.One having Goole wave account can invite 5 others.

At the end, without a group to communicate with, Google wave, the realtime communication service is nothing.