Google Wave is the one piece of technology I’ve been anxiously waiting for since it was first announced earlier this year. Thanks to my buddy Nils I got an invite for the “Preview”??…not even “Beta”…so what’s Preview supposed to be? somewhere between Alpha and Beta?
Anyhow, I’m not going to even try to explain what it is, for that you’ll have to sit through the looooong video Google created, go to Google Wave to check it out, I think it’s totally worth it.
But I’ll post a comment I made on Paul’s Blog which I think clearly defines how I feel about it:
For the average user Google Wave will be Gmail on steroids, nothing else, it will make it really fun to send attachments, videos, pictures and links among friends and to chat, etc…
However, I think this tool will be most useful in a setting where a group of people do collaborative work with each other, think music band, programmers, designers, brainstorming, planning…that kind of situations. It is definitely meant to be for an organizational setting like churches, non-profits, business, etc. If you are in a situation where you are sending lots of emails with attachments among a bunch of people back and forth then Google Wave should be your dreams come true. But let’s not stop there…the bots, gadgets and extensions is what’s going to take GW to the next level, basically the sky is the limit, I know that sounds like cliche, but once we start having good bots, gadgets and extensions you could basically be able to do absolutely anything on GW.
On the other hand before we get too quick on the judgment here I think we need to remember that right now it’s in its “Preview” stage, they didn’t even slap the Beta label on it, so of course is going to be half-baked and with lots of bugs and kind of crappy. I’m pretty sure in a year it won’t even look the way it does now.
I must say though I was kinda’ disappointed it doesn’t work quite like it was shown in the video…we also need to take into consideration ALL what’s doing in REAL TIME…there is nothing out there like it…definitely ahead of its time…
Will it catch on? Big, big paradigm switch from good ol’ email to something like Google Wave…I don’t expect anything drastic to happen overtime, after all, they are re-inventing the email and even the email technology took a while to fully catch on…What I think will happen is that other players in the industry will come up with similar technology and then everyone (users) will eventually adopt the new way of communicating (Wave) and then it won’t be a matter of using Google Wave or not but which service/app do you like better…
So there you have it, my impressions on Google Wave…
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