Google Wave: Latest buzz to hit the Internet market
By siliconindia   |   Monday, 12 October 2009, 15:06 IST
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Google Wave: Latest buzz to hit the Internet market
Bangalore: Google has announced what it calls the future of all internet conversations. Google Wave which integrates e-mail, instant messaging and Google maps is the latest buzz to hit the internet market. According to Economic Times, Google has already sent out 1,00,000 select invites for a Google Wave limited preview. Wave integrates e-mail, instant messaging (IM), collaboration, Google maps as well as search, and it empowers the browser to handle all communication needs However the Wave requires a Chrome Frame plug-in to function on the Internet Explorer as of now. The preferred browsers seem to be Chrome, open source Firefox and Apple's Safari. Google Wave's Engineering Manager Lars Rasmussen says, "Wave is an attempt at redefining communication over the internet." A contemporary take at the four-decade-old e-mail, Google makes an innovation leap with the Wave. Both a product and an open source platform for developers for building new apps, Wave's most striking feature is its speed. It lets users transfer data, pictures and files in real time and also facilitates collaborative editing. Every letter typed in is transmitted immediately into the other user's Wave. Even images can be transmitted with almost no time loss. Once a new wave is created, akin to composing a mail in your e-mail account, you can add contacts and the wave is sent to them. Anybody included in the wave can immediately reply or start editing the wave. John Misczak, a student from Pensylvania, U.S. says," "I would like it (Wave) to become my one-stop-shop for everything on the Web. Answer my Gmail, check my Google Calendar, read my feeds on Google reader, and update my Blogspot blog." There are also a few common sense applications that can come in handy for business users as well as others. Wave's map application lets you plan trips using Google maps on the Wave collaboratively. An application that Google calls the 'Yes/No/Maybe', is an efficient collaborative tool that helps start an instant poll among friends or for business. A poll on the public wave, do you like Wave?, using the Yes/No/Maybe gadget had 39 respondents of which an overwhelming 27 said yes and 10 said maybe and only two said no. An interesting feature of the Wave is the playback button. Even if a person is invited into a wave much later, he'll still be able to view the entire thread using the very useful playback button, which lets users see the entire wave one change at a time using a slider. Google has also added gaming apps such as sudoku and hangman. Widgets like Bloggy and Tweety the Twitbot lets users publish waves on their blogs and also update their Twitter accounts from the Wave itself. Wave has an easy-to-use interface with a flexible design template. But being a developer preview, Wave's a bit buggy and many features still don't respond such as folders.

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