1-800-HOSTING Blog » google http://blog.800hosting.com Inside 1-800-HOSTING Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:04:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Google Wave, The Wave of the Future http://blog.800hosting.com/2009/05/google-wave-the-wave-of-the-future/ http://blog.800hosting.com/2009/05/google-wave-the-wave-of-the-future/#comments Sat, 30 May 2009 10:29:22 +0000 Mark Kraus http://blog.800hosting.com/?p=608 I came across a video from the Google I/O 2009 convention where Google Wave was first demonstrated to developers. I figured I would only watch a few minutes of the hour and 20 minute video before I would bore and go on to something else. Instead, I found myself watching it from start to finish. I was completely gripped by all the cool features of Google Wave and then struck by all the flexible possibilities.

Google Wave is an approach to collaboration and communication which integrates and innovates many of current ways we communicate such as email, blogging, micro blogging, forums, collaborative documentation, scheduling, etc. It does so with the use of what it calls waves. A wave can be anything from a collaborative document to a conversation (even real-time chat) and it can start as one, morph into another or even have pieces taken out and formed into new waves.

Probably the coolest part of this is that it will be open source and extensive client and server APIs are available to extend, customize, and improve the service. It is also built on the idea of a protocol that would make it possible for individual companies to house their own wave servers and share the same functionality with users on other wave servers.. and it’s all web based.

The possibilities are endless with this and it can tie into any existing technologies like twitter, facebook, blogger, and wordpress. Updates can be made on the fly and comments and changes can all be managed from the wave client, simplifying and centralizing management of communication in disparate systems.

I’m infatuated with this technology already even though it is still in development. I’m not fond of technological prophecies as I have been burned several times (so HDDVD lost to blue-ray… sue me). However, I do believe this has the potential to radically change communication and collaboration.

I recommend watching the whole video. I know it’s long, but in my opinion it is worth it.

Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009

I look forward to hosting and supporting your wave servers in the future!

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