Google Wave will change our lives

Google Wave will change our lives and how we work. I agree with Andy Wibbels (@andymatic) that…

“Google Wave completely obliterates business models and entire verticals of companies left and right. You must watch this right now. At least the first 40 minutes.”

Good thing that it is open source because this will become the way to communicate, collaborate, share, archive, …

Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009

From Google’s original announcement post:

“Google Wave has three layers: the product, the platform, and the protocol:

• The Google Wave product (available as a developer preview) is the web application people will use to access and edit waves. It’s an HTML 5 app, built on Google Web Toolkit. It includes a rich text editor and other functions like desktop drag-and-drop (which, for example, lets you drag a set of photos right into a wave).
• Google Wave can also be considered a platform with a rich set of open APIs that allow developers to embed waves in other web services, and to build new extensions that work inside waves.
• The Google Wave protocol is the underlying format for storing and the means of sharing waves, and includes the “live” concurrency control, which allows edits to be reflected instantly across users and services. The protocol is designed for open federation, such that anyone’s Wave services can interoperate with each other and with the Google Wave service. To encourage adoption of the protocol, we intend to open source the code behind Google Wave.”

The enterprise implications of Google Wave

Google Wave and the Enterprise: Beautiful Potential, Faraway Dream