Google Wave
by admin on 31/10/09 at 9:21 am
I don’t know much about Google Wave, other than it’s
an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration
but I do know that this morning I received an invitation to preview it. Microsoft are also clamouring to dominate the realtime collaboration space too, with their new incarnation of Office. From what I know so far Google Wave is designed to enable threads or conversations that get updated immediately as and when participants contribute.
As well as contributing to a conversation, collaborators can work simultaneously on documents. Here are some of the soundbites from the Google Wave help section, to give you a feel for what it’s about:
- Collaboratively work in real time to draft content, discuss and solicit feedback all in one place
- Bring lots of people into a wave to brainstorm – live concurrent editing makes the quantity of ideas grow quickly!
- It is easy to add rich content like videos, images, URLs or even links
- Add a gadget to a wave to play live interactive games with your friends (we’re hooked on Sudoku!). See everyone’s moves as they make them
Anyway, these are just my uninformed thoughts on receiving the Google Wave invite. I’ll post more when I’ve actually opened the box!
