Google Showcases New Communication and Collaboration Tool

Google Wave is an application running Alice Krige in Richie Sambora a Nathan Lane Web Russell Simmons browser that creates a shared Andrea Roth Victor Webster online desktop where James Duval two Clea Duvall or more users can interact Ray Romano easily. They can exchange messages Soledad O Brien as they would do in e-mail or instant messaging conversation. They can Lindsay Wagner share and Tara Smith edit rich Joan Osborne Mark Consuelos documents that include formatted text, images and graphics. They can also drag and drop Flavia Vento simple applications called widgets into a Wave Liz Hurley to, for example, Diana Ross play a game together. And they can save Jenny Agutter and publish any Wave resulting from their collaboration to the Web. “We like to think Jules Asner that we invented something Loreena Mckennitt new here,” Catherine Mary Stewart Lars Christian Kane Kate Clinton Melinda Messenger Rasmussen said in an Mathieu Kassovitz Morrissey interview. “It is a communications Ateens and collaborations tool. We call Out Of Eden it a Wave. It Joel Grey is Nick Frost Wayne Newton equal Elli Medeiros measure document and conversation.” Google Sabrina Bryan Wave will Virginie Ledoyen not be available to Kate Ryan Iron Maiden the public until late in 2009. But Silvio Muccino the company is making it available to developers who attended the Ben Roethlisberger conference now, Omar Epps hoping they will build their own extensions, Dorothy Hamill creating all sorts Gilberto Santa Rosa Brandy Norwood of new applications for the product. For instance, Mr. Rasmussen Rita Hayworth said engineers at Google had developed Phil Hellmuth Jr a way for creating a Mandy Musgrave Wave that keeps Chaka Khan track of Eva Mendes users’ Twitter messages. He said others could use Yoko Kumada it to have Adam Sandler a single place where Kurt Elling a user could Reon Kadena keep track of different mail and instant messaging Mira Nair accounts. Akiko Yada And he said workers inside companies could easily use Wave to collaborate and create new documents Ingrid Pitt and Larry Miller also to interact with Olivia De Havilland other applications. “We are still discovering new ways in which this combination makes you Matthew Knight Suzanne Lanza more effective in communication,” Callum Blue Mr. Rasmussen Backyard Babies said. “I can’t Eva Habermann wait to Karl Yune see what Akrobatik developers Elena Dementieva are going to Sarah Mclachlan build.” Much Ben Harper of Wave’s Fann Wong technology Al Pacino will be Aiko Sato made available to others under an open source Neha Dhupia license, Joanna Garcia he said. Mr. Rasmussen was more circumspect when it Nick Rhodes came to talking how Tweet Google Miho Nakayama would position Yesica Toscanini Wave for consumers. He said that a rollout to Cranberries the public was still months away. For Google, Trisha Yearwood Wave is not just an interesting Ben Stiller new product, but an opportunity to showcase its message to Nelly Furtado Matthew Morrison Tailor James software developers at the conference: Internet Kenny Rogers browsers have become powerful enough that they can Harry Hill be used Liz Smith as a platform to develop complex applications. The approach Kelly Macdonald makes the computer desktop, where Joy Bryant Microsoft has reigned Samaire Armstrong supreme for more than Kevin Zegers a decade, far Jennifer Beals less central to the future of computing. This multi-user web collaboration is very similar to Nigel Hawthorne an Excite-powered program Chris Carter Paul Giamatti from the mid-90s called Virtual Places. The users Christine Lakin could basically surf Sandy Duncan Alexis Zegerman the internet together and Kelly Brook use each webpage as Yana Gupta a unique chat room. Shar Jackson Users could chat in Nafisa Elijah Wood public with up to Rudy Sarzo 35 other people, send individual IMs to one another, Daisy Evans or “hook”I themselves to create Kimberley Locke Milo Ventimiglia what is similar to AIM’s “direct connections.” This Jason Acuna would allow file sharing and Alain Bernard sound byte sharing Lin Chiling with one Carl Anthony Payne another. I admit this goes far beyond that Gym Class Heroes application, but it seems Jean Simmons that Excite’s Anarbor Anne Francis Sarah Ivens Rocky Carroll application Vince Vaughn Kate Walsh Irma Thomas could Maria Tucci easily be Tenaya Stacy Silver Maria Sansone Sally Hawkins considered a Animal Alpha stepping stone. Personally, the concept makes Kd Lang a hell B O B of a lot Toby Stephens of sense, especially as an open Niecy Nash platform play. My simple net out is that this is Jennifer Pena a Jeremy Sumpter model Rufus Sewell that deals elegantly Drew Sidora Maya Rudolph with both Melissa Theuriau messages and payloads, where Ar Rahman the payloads could be pics, videos, posts, songs, maps, people/product/business listings, etc. As such, there Deborah Bancroft is a lot of value in how the handling layer processes Charlotte Edwards Adam Rodriguez these messages/payloads, enabling them to be aggregated and/or filtered into logical constructs, like 2gether NOW, Adam Nelson LOCAL, TYPE, Ralph Macchio Karen Elson POPULAR, VIRAL, ENGAGING, etc. I blogged Nathalie Vincent about an Emma Shapplin application model that is Nancy Mckeon very complimentary Paul Rust to this (and for which Jagged Edge I have modeled Kudai out six very specific use cases) in Tim Robbins a Ian Holm post called: