What is Google Wave?
Google Wave is an incredible technology that is hard to fully understand. It is messaging, email and real-time web collaboration all rolled into one, and the implications are far-reaching. I have been trying to imagine the full ramifications of using Google Wave on a team basis, but I can’t get in the closed beta, so I am stuck with imagining it. That’s why I was excited to see the research note appear that explains Google Wave completely.
Understanding Google Wave: An Experiment in Real-Time Web Use on GigaOM Pro, our subscription-based research service, explains in depth what Wave is and more importantly, how it might impact our communications in the future. It is enough to get me very excited about Google Wave and the benefits it can provide.
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Wave needs end to end encryption. Like what Groove has. Honestly, if it can’t set up an encrypted tunnel, its not going to work for anything serious.
Hans
Wave is open sourced. if you want to have an encryption algarythem then write one.
I can’t remember where I found the link to about an hour long Google video, but Wave looks extremely useful. I’m glad more is coming out, and I’m looking forward to it going live.
Thanks for the links.
To help with imagining – If you want to see the full presentation video it’s here
http://wave.google.com/
And feature breakdowns (much shorter chunks) are here
http://lifehacker.com/5285944/the-google-wave-highlight-reel
hope that’s useful
– imma
James
I’m in the beta dev group and don’t worry: you aren’t missing much. Everything is real shiny as it crashes constantly. I honestly am looking forward to the Sept build in the hopes that i can actually start developing something with just my bugs to deal with ;)
The engadget write up is pretty right on for the anxious:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/google-wave-dev-preview-hands-on-and-impressions/