Are you ready forGoogle Wave?

@KnightBaron

Introduction

Introduction

Today’s Communication Tools› Email› Bulletins Board› Wiki› IM› IRC / Chat› Etc.

Computer and Network is vastly improved in the past decades

What email might look like if in were invented today?

What is Google Wave?

What is Google Wave?

It’s kind of hard to explain. You should watch the keynote at http://wave.google.com/

Google called it “A new collaboration and communication tool”

Many says it’s a combination of Gmail, Google Talk and Google Docs

What is Google Wave?

My attempt: An extensible platform for real-time shared version-controlled rich-media document with open protocol› Each conversation (wave) is a tree in which

participants can edit the content simultaneously

Comparison with other tools

Email mimics Snail Mail IM mimics Telephone Call IRC/Chat mimics Conversation Bulletins Board is a Hosted

Conversation

Google wave is an attempt to create a communication tool which take advantages of today’s technologies

Key Features

Real-time› Character by character

Embedability› Embedded API

Applications and Extensions› Gadget› Robot

Key Features

Playback Wiki Functionality

› Introduce a new communication model Natural Language

› Intelligence Spell Checker Icland is an icland => Iceland is and island

› Translator Watch the keynote at 1:13:13

Example usage scenarios

Email, IM type conversation Lightweight gallery Collaborative document editor Multiplayer Games Project manager Shared space

The Future of Google Wave

The Future of Google Wave

Rich APIs attract developers to join the party› just like what happened to Google Maps

It’s has many potentials. It could become a new communication standard.› But it’s still too early to say that› Personally, I think it won’t replace anything

just like IM doesn’t replaced email

Any questions?Please don’t hesitate to ask

Thank you

References

http://mashable.com/2009/05/28/google-wave-guide/

http://wave.google.com/ http://www.blognone.com/node/11840 Many other sites. Just google for

“Google Wave”.