Google Wave

In my eyes Google never fail to come out with something special. With the imminent launch of Microsoft’s Bing - Google go and announce Wave which is due for launch later this year.

So what is Google Wave? Well to quickly sum it up, it’s a real-time communication platform. It cleverly unites all aspects of email, instant messaging, social networking, wikis, chat and project management into one browser communication client.

Just a few of the benefits Google Wave:

• You have the ability to respond to a certain sentence within an e-mail or ‘wave’, not just the standard reply to the e-mail itself.
• Real-time instant messaging conversations - you will no longer see the ‘your friend is typing’ message, you see characters on your screen as they are being typed.
• Easily drag and drop files directly into Wave and upload them ready for download from other Wave friends or work colleagues.
• Real-time interaction with your blog – upload text and photographs to your wave and they will instantly appear on your blog
  

If you want to be notified when it is first released and receive further news, you can do an early sign up, and also watch their 1.1/2 hr developer preview at Google I/O below:



Google Wave wants to change the way we use email and communicate by making it completely dynamic (real-time). The tag line is “What would email look like if it were invented today?” I would not be at all surprised if Google Wave revolutionises the way people and companies communicate with each other. I’m really looking forward to this one.