Google Wave (wave.me)

Wave.me would be the perfect domain name for a Google Wave service/server or a blog like this. Are you interested to offer? Just send an email to info at wave dot me.

The recent launch of Google Wave generated a lot of attention, and for good reason. It’s recently crossed my path in a few different settings, and while the news is still fresh, there is a lot here for service providers to be thinking about. At a high level, Wave is Google’s entry into the real time collaboration space, and being Web-based, is poised to disrupt the status quo, not just for vendors, but service providers as well.

Read the full article at tmcnet.com.

New media has already reminded up that PR stands for public relations and not just media relations. This is still something that many organizations are navigating at the moment. Now Google is giving us yet another Wave of innovation and showing us what is possible in the browser, developed by the team that gave us Google Maps.

Read the full article at SocialMediaToday.com.

While Google Wave is opening many new ways for developers to reinvent communication, others are doing the same using the regular e-mail protocol.

Cc:Betty

Cc:Betty creates a communication stream from e-mails Cc:Betty receives as a Carbon Copy of your e-mail. This is a very expandable concept.

Go to www.ccbetty.com to read more. (link opens in new window)

Gmail Labs

Gmail offers several innovative features, partly in Gmail Labs:

• Preview content from Flickr, Picasa and YouTube in your e-mail (Labs)
• Threaded discussions by grouping e-mail by subject and sender(s)
• Translate messages to your own language (Labs)
• Create an event with Google Calendar from an e-mail

Both initiatives leave us wondering if the classic e-mail concept could be reinvented and compete with Google Wave.

Google’s Wave technology launched at Google I/O recently shows a lot of possibilities and many interesting and very impressive features – but is the world waiting for another Facebook?

The overview of features of Google’s Wave as presented at Google I/O is truly impressive – character-for-character transmission, the ability to integrate pictures, maps, emails, instant messaging, games,… As it will be open-source it also presents a broad platform for a wide developer community to further develop interesting applications.

Read the full article on glggroup.com (new window)

Several sites have written in-depth reviews of Google Wave. Everybody is wondering what the impact of this upcoming service will be. Here are some articles that are very interesting to read:

• Hands-on with Wave: Weird and quite wonderful

(CNET)

• CNET News Daily Podcast: Taking a test ride on Google’s Wave

(CNET)

• Google Wave: First Impressions

(Information Week)

• Debating the power of Google’s Wave

(CNET)

• Google Wave Federation Protocol

(Business Week)

Google promised to deliver something spectacular on the second day of the Google I/O conference, and they did not disappoint. Google has just announced Google Wave, a new in-browser communication and collaboration tool that is 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 web. 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 will see your friends type character-by-character.

The features don’t stop there, either. Google Wave also supports the ability to drag attachments from your desktop into Google Wave. It loads that file and sends it immediately to anyone in the conversation. It’s also embeddable, so you can embed Google Wave conversations on any blog.

Read the full article on Masahable.com (new window)