Google has over all these years always tried to be better than a search engine. Google Earth and Street View are very fine example of this. They are now the best E-Mail Company with their successful GMail, which is getting so many new users every other day. I have been using GMail for a long time and the spam content is very very less when compared to its competitors. Google Mail is soon going to EVOLVE into Google Wave.
Google has termed it as “the email of the future” at the Google I/O Conference where they announced their plans about Google Wave. It is an attempt to bring all types of online communication together. Think about a tool which has the combination of Twitter, Facebook/Orkut, Flickr/Picasa and GMail and you will get an idea of what Google Wave could be. But what is so different about it than the rest of the things that we already have. Let us have a look at it now!
Google has been working on this Google Wave Project for the last couple of years. The Developer Preview was show mainly to attract attention. Not only for showcasing the Wave idea, but also to all the programmers around the world to build extensions to the this Wave Concept.
It is Real Time. The receiver will get the data in real time as the sender types in the information. So, we won’t see that so and so person is typing… anymore. Ah! What a relief. And many people can join the Wave.
One of the most important advantage of writing the messages is that it will be easier to keep track of the structure, which will allow you to split the message and then reply to certain part of the message alone. And yes, people can later reply to the new messages as well. Even though this might get convoluted, wave has a very handy track back button, which allows you to go backwards and then see how the conversation started and progressed.
Another kewl feature is the way in which you can also have IM-type conversations. Mainly due to the reason that it immediately updates data(real time). Of course, the advantages for group editing is more. But it will become really irritating if it becomes too quick and lots of new messages start popping up everywhere. File Sharing is, most noticeably photos, is also in real-time and very easy. A drag and drop method is followed here.
This Google Wave is really exciting, and with so many programmers working on this open source product it will ultimately result in the end users having the most fun. World is evolving and Google Wave shows it to us!
