Do the Google Wave!

How many of us are building communication strategies around email, facebook, text messaging, and other digital and social networking tools?

While this is not a techie site, we all better be watching the up and coming Google Wave! It’s set to be the lastest innovation and future industry standard in what could replace some common tools like email, wikki’s,  sms, chat, etc.

Not being a techie, but being someone whose organizations are putting money into online resources and tools, I need to know about this and watch where it’s heading.  Take a look and be amazed at what is coming…

What is a Google wave?

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

Some key technologies in Google Wave
Real-time collaboration	Natural language tools	Extending Google Wave
Concurrency control technology lets all people on a wave edit rich media at the same time. Watch the tech video	Server-based models provide contextual suggestions and spelling correction. Watch the tech video	Embed waves in other sites or add live social gadgets, thanks to Google Wave APIs.