Google Wave is looking good!

[sm1]

Here is an overview of what it is

http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html

And below is a video of the developer conference with a demonstration

http://wave.google.com/

A few months away from release, but looks good

 

[edmondscommerce]

interesting cheers

 

[sm1]

No problem - I think it's going to be the 'in' thing when it's out!

 

[cmcp]

Cool.

I hear a lot of people around me comment their texting and email is dramatically reduced thanks to social networking.

 

[sm1]

Ye, I'd agree with that partially - if someone is online, much easier to do that than anything else.

Cheers

 

[That Guy]

Looks quite good. Will have to keep an eye out for it

 

[sm1]

Don't worry, I'm sure they won't be quiet about the launch

 

[An Oasis]

Interesting way to nuke other web 2 apps...search+email+website integration+SMNing all combined...bye bye Twitter, LinkedIn...

 

[designsbysteve]

I think this looks really great, in fairness I feel the vast majority of people involved in the web would admit there are so many similar services a bit of pruning wouldn't go amiss. Time will tell, but if people take this up then it will be pretty big.

 

[sm1]

Yep, agree An Oasis - will combine the lot and be better!

Agree Steve, with regards to pruning!!

 

[traxor]

It's looking very nice, but I'm not sure about whether I'll use it or not. It depends on how invasive it is.

 

[An Oasis]

Yep, agree An Oasis - will combine the lot and be better!

It's the last strangle hold they need. They have most of the stats in terms of websites, gmail, YouTube...and once they can monitor other aspects, they know just about everything that happens. Too much knowledge. Too much power. All concentrated in one company is never a good thing.

 

[Spock]

So it will be like a Wiki come Facebook come Twitter? Sounds pretty melon twistin'

 

[FAB Enterprises]

The're touting it as a reinvention of email amalgamated with IM and other collaboration services.

It looks great but I feel it will need third party developers to integrate it with other apps and services to make it a true killer app.

 

[designsbysteve]

FAB, I think they've already opened it up to a select group of developers, there is going to be access to the API once it is ready so I imagine there will be some really good ideas for it very soon.

 

[woodss]

Imagine if all of the forums you use were each powered using an embedded Wave (because remember, it can be threaded etc). You could participate in all of them using a single webclient (much like using GMail now).

If people start merging applications like this, I wonder how it'll affect things like ad-revenue; because essentially if people start just pulling data back and forth into the webclient from your website instead of actually visiting, you're not going to get the same number of page views.

It's very very interesting though from a developer perspective

 

[rosszero]

I think Google Wave will dominate this area of the market but it's just as much as a showcase for what will be possible with HTML 5.

All it's best features like embedding any video with just an HTML tag, or drag and dropping images onto a browser to upload, is possible with HTML 5.

 

[woodss]

...or drag and dropping images onto a browser to upload, is possible with HTML 5.

No it isn't, they specifically say in the video that they've proposed an extension to HTML 5 but it's not been accepted yet, and you have to install Google Gears for that functionality.

Also, a lot of the stuff that makes Wave do what it does is nothing at all to do with HTML 5 but a lot of heavy lifting behind the scenes on the server side. Wave is written using the Google Web Toolkit.

 

[rosszero]

Thanks for the clarification, I misinterpreted what I read about it, didn't watch the whole video, it was over an hour long!

 

[OldWelshGuy]

No it isn't, they specifically say in the video that they've proposed an extension to HTML 5 but it's not been accepted yet, and you have to install Google Gears for that functionality.

Also, a lot of the stuff that makes Wave do what it does is nothing at all to do with HTML 5 but a lot of heavy lifting behind the scenes on the server side. Wave is written using the Google Web Toolkit.

So it will be mostly ajax then?

This is the long overdue revamp and updating of the Orkut network that was great when first set up (invite only from Google) But sat there doing nothing.

I like it.

 

[YODspica]

interesting development,

 

[Gillie]

So has anyone got an invite yet to go join Google Wave?

 

[DotNetWebs]

So has anyone got an invite yet to go join Google Wave?

Funnily enough mine came this morning.

I haven't had time to have a look at Wave yet though.

Regards

Dotty