Google Wave – an Advanced Online Real-time Communication & Collaboration Platform
Google keeps on reinventing itself to keep its waves high in every season. Always in talks among tech professionals, Google makes its presence felt on the global platform of technology through the release of new and newer products. The most talked-about product of late from the Google stable is Google Wave that is in fact a harmony of two basic online communication tools – email and instant messaging with lots of functionality. 
Google Wave one of the most ambitious attempts of Google is an advanced real-time communication and collaboration platform integrating several online communication methods like e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, internet chat, social networking and project management into one paradigm. Compatible with web browsers – Chrome, Safari and Firefox, Google Wave is an all-in-one in-browser communication device and a dominant form of internet communication.
Where Google Wave is Different & Distinguished
A highly functional being of Google, Wave is a feature-packed device to share files or project information and have conversations with a group of friends or business partners. It comes with a left-handed sidebar Navigation, a list of contacts and an inbox. The Wave inbox is almost akin to the Google inbox. What makes it differ from the latter is its exceptional feature to display the faces of the threads’ senders and the new content from them through number indicators.
If you and your friend are online at the same time, what he or she on the other side types you can see it character-by-character. Isn’t it a wonder? Moreover, you can exchange dialogues with him or her in real-time chat. If you don’t want the other person to see your words, you can hide them by entering a “Draft” mode before you send them. If a wave involves multiple persons, you can send a private message to a particular person. The message will be viewable to you and the recipient only.
Google Wave is a departure from the traditional style of chatting, messaging and replaying to messages in email and IM. The files and documents that you share with a group of other persons through Wave are easily editable by multiple hands. This wiki style of Google Wave is a highly innovative feature to invite contributions from other persons to improving the content of the shared files or documents. The difference between Google Wave and Google Docs is that the former offers real-time edit updates so that persons cannot step over each other while group-editing a file or document. The name of the person editing something is displayed in a brightly colored box.
Sharing photos on Wave is just like feeling at home. With Gears installed in your browser, you can share pictures with your Wave contacts through the simple drag and drop policy. The moment you drag and drop the pictures into a Wave thread, the thumbnails appear on the screen of your friends. They can change the picture titles in real time. Apart from pictures, what you can share in Wave threads includes Google maps, YouTube videos, games, event invitations, links and more.
Google Wave is not a mere web application. You can enjoy absolute freedom to use it across all sites on the web. For example, you can use it on your blog site and share waves as posts with your readers. Visitors to your blog can join you in Google Wave following your waves on the blog site. What you will find awesome about it to your utter amazement is its speed.
A tool of great account for online teaching and marketing professionals, Google Wave has blurred the lines of distinction between email and IM. So it would not be unjust to regard Google Wave as the vision of communication in the age of Web 3.0.
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July 24th, 2010 at 7:22 am
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