Could Google Wave Redefine Email and Web Communication?
Could Google Wave Redefine Email and Web Communication?
Google promised to deliver something spectacular on the second day of the Google I/O conference, and they didn’t disappoint. Google has just announced Google Wave, a new in-browser communication and collaboration tool that’s already being hailed by some as the next evolution of email. Yes, Google Wave is potentially that disruptive.
Created by two of the guys behind Google Maps with a small team in Sydney, the concept behind Google Wave is to “unify” communication on the internet. It’s a hybrid of email, web chat, IM, and project management software. It features the ability to replay conversations because it records the entire sequence of communication, character by character. Because of this, discussions are also live in Google Wave: you’ll see your friend’s type character-by-character.
The key to it all is the faster line of communication. Attaching documents, like you do in email, is unnecessary in Google Wave. Real-time conversations and collaboration make it an ideal tool for business teams as well. Imagine an entire office having Google Wave open to swiftly share and receive files. It combines some of people’s favorite aspects of many different web communication tools.
I suddenly begined to day dream on how Google Wave could solve many of my web development issues. Google Wave could potentially grant a team to collaborate with clients directly and in real-time during the User Acceptance Testing phase in any web development project. If we could have the ability to see proposed changes in real-time and apply the edits as the client sees it happens, we could save valuable time and money.
Is Google Wave the Wave of the Future?
Google Wave aims to be the future of email Gmail, IM, and Docs all rolled into one. Email has been around for about 40 years now. In fact, it pre-dates the web by good few years and even the fanciest Live Mail or MobileMe system in the world still closely resembles the system put in place all those years ago. So if it ain t broke, don t fix, right? Err, wrong. Google reckons that email resembles older, outdated forms of communication far too closely. Email is basically an electronic representation of how the postal service works, albeit faster, cheaper and think aboutably less prone to get left in the back of warehouse somewhere. So the web monster is working on Google Wave, a rethink of the whole email idea.
Is Google Wave the Wave of the Future?
While I haven’t been invited to participate in Wave, I have been following their progress. A number of folks have posted their impressions of Wave for others to see. The question is of this is really the next evolution of communications. On one hand, it is clearly a new way of thinking about conversations and the dialog between participates. However, it seems to lack any ability to support intimate conversations. As a public or non-intimate forum, it appears to do a fine job. I do question the value of seeing others type their responses in real time. I think this would be an unnecessary burden on the communications network for minimal value. On the other hand, I might change my mind if they would invite me in to the trial!!!!
During the Google I/O keynote, Google’s VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra , laid out a grand vision for the direction Google sees the web heading towards with the move to the HTML 5 standard. While we’re not there yet, the entire Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication dawn is upon us
Android Phone Fans — Google Wave and Google Gadgets you can play embeddable games like Sudoku in a wave: So how does this fit into Android? Well… it works on Mobile phones… like Google Android phones… and they demo Google Wave on an Android device and iPhone. Holy awesomeness and world-about-to-be-taken-overness! Right now you’re probably asking: “Where do I sign up?” Good question… and I’ve got the answer: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignup/ Google Wave is bathroomking pretty crazy.
Could Google WAVE goodbye to twitter?
The Google Maps team, lead by Lars and Jens Rasmussen, have developed an application to grant people to communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps and other tools, all within a standard browser. I think that allot of twitter fans could leave “the fail away” because of Google Wave. This one it bathroomks to be one of the ideal web based app build in the last years. Probably will be a Facebook killer too.
Who will ride Google’s Wave?
Twitter/Facebook on steroids. I can certainly see uses for it in project management, events organization, news sharing and decision making in a crisis situation and so on. If people make apps for it too then who knows what else?
As you already know, Google released a waterfall of 100,000 invites to the Google Wave preview over the last day or so, giving bleeding-edge early adopter and information addicts a new playground to exchange conversations in real time. After months of hibernation and anticipation, Wave’s arrival has everyone’s tongues wagging, as we all get an early bathroomk into Google’s plans to redefine messaging; delivering a real-time platform that includes rich media and extensibility through gadgets.
Since Wave’s introduction earlier this year, I have seen a number of differing ways the product has been described. From a new development platform to a suite for business collaboration or an (insert popular social service name here) killer, the guesses have ranged far and wide. Interestingly, however, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Lars Rasmussen defined Wave as “a modern version of e-mail”, adding that e-mail is “an old-fashioned technology”. So it makes the most sense, at this point, to bathroomk at the Google Wave preview as a potential replacement or enhancement to this day’s e-mail systems, notably Gmail.
Who’s excited for Google Wave?
I am quite excited about Google Wave. I believe that the convergence in a web-based platform of mail, chat, blogs, social networking and collaboration is showing what’s the beginning of Web 3.0 initiatives.
I am very much bathroomking forward to Google Wave. One of the less discussed aspects that are particularly appealing to me is the potential for this to create a ubiquitous web identity.
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i think the future in video procesing is using the video card to decode hd like nvidia cuda if the download speed is not the issue
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5 misconceptions about HTML5
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5 misconceptions about HTML5
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5 misconceptions about HTML5
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5 misconceptions about HTML5
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I use x264 to encode my videos now and the container is avi
I need to read up on the specifics of what you can get away with regards to h.264, I know the license is tight
corporate profiteering from all video content on the net is NO solution for an open web
let’s hope Google save the day!
Yeah I had heard they had but I would be surprised if they just switched youtube to VP8 one day, it would be an absolutely mammoth task re-encoding all the video
I really really hope they do open source VP8 and I would say that they didn’t purchase it for no reason esp at this critical time
Don’t forget that Google have traditionally been fairly pally with Apple but I would be surprised if they supported their desire to profiteer from h.264
this is the main problem with html5 atm
Also to answer your question on x264. It’s an Open Source Library codec, so if their was any actual MPEG LA content, you’d know it. The container is .mp4. It’s the proprietary encoder/decoder that’s licensed. Use a different encoder to get to h.264, no h.264 license is needed.
Like VP8 using the browser’s embedded x.264 libraries to encode to h.264 in an mp4 container, in the very near future!
In effect, they’re cutting off Apple’s Evil control of content coming w/ iPlatform’s iPad!
@tuleo554 Do you know Google’s purchase of On2 was finalized recently? They’ll most likely drop MPEG LA license & use VP8 to encode their own YouTube videos instead of h.264.
They’re also expected to Open Source it. It’s rumored Google & Mozilla are shunning Apple’s call for complete control of HTML5 web content w/ an eventual over abundance of DRM in h.264!
To counter this they’ll likely embed VP8 in their browsers (as Ogg is now). Google’s move to shine a light on Apple’s Evil intent!
I didn’t know that Kroneage thanks for the info
I really hope ur right about Ogg matching h.264 for quality and filesize
btw since x264 actually encodes h.264 standard video is it not covered by the patent?
this is a complex issue!
@tuleo554 BTW… Google has skunkworks developers working on x.264 (h.264 avc clone) and Ogg Theora on the side. Since the browser makers stalemated on HTML5 w/o any default codec standards.
It’s been estimated that by the time HTML5 is in wide use, Ogg Theora will be vastly improved & more than capable of comparable results to h.264!
Which by then will be inundated w/ DRM (Digital Rectal Manipulation) to soothe Corporate content provider’s and their industry Wigs & Suits (pen pushers)!
@tuleo Ogg is a great multi-layered codec itself. Theora is being developed as a video layer w/in the codec. It’s not perfect yet for HD web streaming, but Game developers (Unreal Tournament, etc) have been using it for years.
h.264 is only “Open Platform”! NOT Open Source or Free. It is also capable of having DRM in it, unlike Oggs. Which are certified DRM FREE!
Also h.264 although free licensed now, has a poison pill Trojan Horse date for fees to kick in, by 2016. It’s Evil will kick in too!
yeah man, I know Apple get part of the license fee.
I’m not saying that trying to profiteer from codecs is a good thing, far from it, I’m all for open standards but Ogg is just not a great quality codec atm
With regards to your Itunes comment you’re kinda right but not really, you’re paying for the fact that you’re downloading a video it has nothing to do with the codec
Vendors are charged fees if they are selling h.264 video for e.g. Brightcove charge you for video then pay a fee on that
@tuleo554 Download videos from iTunes & you pay for it. Apple wants h.264 becuz they get part of the license fees.
Google & Apple colluded together in order to influence h.264 web development. That’s now broken as the preliminary HTML5 Standard will have no default codec.
Ogg is embedded in Firefox chrome engine. A firefox Ogg plugin is already in over 16% of IE browsers (Safari has one too). Firefox is installed cross platform on 25% of Macs & PC’s. So browsers are more Ogg ready than h.264!
Here are the facts about the h.264 codec, end users don’t pay for it, neither video uploaders nor viewers
Free internet video (like youtube) pay barely anything for it
Browser vendors on the other hand do pay for it which is why Mozilla wont play ball
The patent is held by a group of companies including Apple, Sony and Microsoft.
I was shocked to find this out too, please read the full article as there seems to be a lot of confusion over the matter
tulesblog(dot)com/h264-license-explained
Any one recall when the web was covered in cheap animation like spinning logos made in java script … Man that sucked so bad… Then Flash can along and changed every thing … People act like HTML5 is going to save ever one but it’s just going to open the door for more really badly made animations… unless some comes along and packages it with a time lime , and sales it in some software that is made for animation… A Flash killer it is not, nor was Microsoft Silverlight …
I disagree, coding applications in Canvas wont require any require any server side script to run, stop just throwing words into the mix.
The API is pure Javascript if you feel intimidated by that it’s your short coming because JS is not a hard language.
so flash is a “hack” now?
funnily enough i wrote a small flash game a few hours (a platform game in which you are a ball…kinda like cod?) it was fairily easy due to my programming skills in c++/c# , however i dont see myself writing those gravity algorithms with fragmented technologies (javascript here , html to create objects , stick there some ajax , some php, add a bit of server side java code and im good to go)
flash sucks , but its a steamlined runtime for developers