Google Wave - Quick Preview

Quick preview of Google Wave and how to get an invitation

Google is stirring up a storm with their new weapon of mass destruction, Google Wave. Google Wave is the next evolution in real time communication, emailing, instant messaging, blogging and collaborating all bundled into an open source tool. In other words, Google Wave will be a social butterfly’s Swiss army knife, that comes complete with a grenade launcher and a drop of Chuck Norris’ sheer awesomeness essence sealed into it. Lars Rasmussen, one of the geniuses behind Google Maps is helping with Wave. With Google Wave you will email like you have never emailed before, you’ll be able to do everything you can currently do and more like dissecting the email apart and add notes wherever you want, use a playback feature to see the email’s history and more. You’ll be able to share photos, embed links and videos with such ease that you’d think it’s downright unfair for something to be this convenient. But it’s not just for personal use, Wave also works as a collaboration tool so you can share your business documents and make changes with your colleagues in real time.

As of September 30th 2009, Google has started sending out invitations to developers to play, test and break this new toy. One of the big movements for 2009 is putting the power into the hands of the user. Due to it’s open source nature Google encourages you to test to the limits the capabilities of Wave. 100,000 invitations have been sent out so far, how can you get one? You can find someone who has been given an invitation and plead on your knees to be nominated to “ride the wave” or you can try your luck and request for an invitation from Google directly.

Wave is still in development so it’ll be nothing short of a miracle for it to be released before Christmas. A release date first quarter of 2010 would be more realistic though. Regardless of the release date in 2010, whether you’re a Google fanboy, someone who likes to be the first to try things or just want to see what’s the fuss about; Google Wave is definitely worth trying out with your friends or colleagues and you will come to realize how you ever lived without it.

Watch this space getting, especially towards Christmas for further announcements regarding Google Wave. Who knows, Google might get into the holiday spirit and have little presents for their fans on Christmas Day.

For information, and if you have about a free hour or two, check out Google’s demo of Wave.