Google Wave and You

Whether you’ve already heard a bit of buzz about Google Wave or haven’t yet noticed it online until now – either way, it’s bound to crop up again.

Focusing on real-time communication and online collaboration, Google Wave is poised to create seamless access to and organisation of our online world where multimedia content and real-time conversation is abundant (and will be even more so in the future).

How Can You Use Google Wave?

Officially launched by Google on May 27, 2009, the platform-crossing network is designed to simplify the vast amount of content and contacts of the average web user.

A convenient system for managing your social media profiles, the capabilities of Google Wave are tough to ignore. Here are some of the features and properties:

• Instant messaging
• Built with HTML 5, the latest in web programming
• Document storage and remote access
• Collaborative document editing (like Google Docs or Wikipedia)
• Drag and drop organisation
• Google/Wave name and profile
• Real-time search
• Automated translation between languages
• Switching between public and private conversations within the same thread
• Easy streaming of Twitter, RSS or other feeds
• Rich formatting and multimedia capabilities
• Archiving and recording (view past conversations, actions or waves)
• Elements of one’s Wave can be shared online, and thus indexable by search Engine spiders
• Promotes mashups through open source framework and API

What is a wave? A wave is a thread or conversation, which could be a Facebook interaction, email message, Twitter conversation or practically any other type of engagement.

While Google Wave may not be ready for the mainstream, it is a good hint at what’s to come in the world of multimedia communication and collaboration.

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