Google is going to take over the whole internet – Announcing Google Wave

As a hardcore fan of Google for a long time, I have always supported their products – GMail, Google Calendar, Picasa… everything. Once again, they surprise us with a newest product – Google Wave, something that might just intensely revolutionize, if not take over, the whole internet.

According to Google and their description, “Google Wave is a product that helps users communicate and collaborate on the web. A "wave" is equal parts conversation and document, where users can almost instantly communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.”

First Impressions

“Oh is it a come-back for Twitter?” When I first saw this, I thought it would be some sort of enhanced micro-blogging with some kick-ass Google-only functions. It turns, out, it is nothing except another product of Google’s combination creativity and technology.

After watching the preview, I had a better understanding to what Wave really is.

From the screenshots + Preview

Google Wave is like a service somewhat similar to a forum, email, blog, combined all together. By creating a new “wave”, you send somewhat a “mail” to everybody that they can reply, edit, and even collaborate to work on (at the same time!).

As you can see in the screenshot – the most left panel displays the important links (settings, etc.) and contacts. The middle panel displays the list of “waves” and the right panel display the current wave you are looking at – it lets you edit, reply and do lots of other things.

It is simply such a great, enormous and creative tool that I cannot describe it in words (So kudos to the engineers that presented this in the Google I/O – it must have been hard.

By offering API and extensions, developers can easily create something that the users love. Google has created this perfect win-win situation for both ends. Good job!

I don’t want talk about stuff that you guys can watch yourself. Believe me, you will be shocked.

So how can it take over the internet?

Let’s take a look at the internet applications available right now:

• Facebook – The only reason why I use facebook is because of being able to see what friends (that don’t write blogs) are up to. Facebook’s technically is all about wall posts, and perhaps a little bit about the apps, but that’s it. Google Wave can provide that easily! “Wall posts” would become different “waves”, and the events system could be the one that the dev team talk about. All the API can let developers provide more features – and heck, it doesn’t even need the developers to pay the ridiculous Facebook App Fee!
• (Micro) Blogs – Google Wave won’t take over it. It’ll just make them much easier. Check out the preview and see for yourself
• Forums – That’s what Google Wave is exactly like! Each “wave” is like a separate topic. Everybody can reply to the discussion… what else do you need?
• Instant Messaging – Why bother when you can reply so fast to a thread in Google Wave? It updates real time! PLUS! It will help you to stay on track and talk about only one thing. The great search function built in lets us search for history much easier…

It can be used in so many different purposes, as shown in the preview, namely:

• Events & RSVP system – Create a “wave” with the “yes, no, maybe” widget, and participants can easily choose what to do
• Collaboration – Edit + discuss in real time!
• Much more…

I can’t wait until this release. I know it will be a hit on the internet. Everybody will suddenly talk about it and have at least something to do with it. Trust me on this one.

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