Riding the Wave
This should be a blast!
Thanks to Peter and Lisa over at Social Media IQ, I’m now the proud owner of an invitation to test out Google Wave.
If you haven’t heard about Google Wave yet, you will soon enough. According to Google it “is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration.” Looking into the architecture in a bit more detail, the potential seems much more vast than that.
For a very good explanation of the key components please read “Google Wave: You need to pay attention to this” by Jason Kolb, which explains how this fundamentally changes online communication as we know and experience it today [warning - it gets fairly technical at times].
There is a long video [1 hour 20 minutes] available where the developers take you through the Wave system, as well as a shorter [10 minute] video that summarises the key points. I found the 10 minute video to jump around a bit much to follow coherently, so if you really want to know, take the plunge and watch the long one. Otherwise, in the true spirit of less-is-more you can watch this 2 minute doodle that gives a taste of what Wave does [better than the 10 minute spiel I think]:
For now I’ll just be waiting patiently for my login details to arrive, and I’ll surely be writing something about the experience. Thanks again Social Media IQ! [and thanks as well to Martijn Vreugde who raised my interest in Wave via an entirely different discussion a while ago]
Tick tock, tick tock.
Photo – “Big Wave Surfing Teahupoo Tahiti” by thelastminute via flickr [Duncan Rawlinson]
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