Google's Just-announced Google Wave may Swamp Microsoft

We don't normally feature news items here at Gizmo's Freeware but this announcement looks to be so important I'm prepared to make an exception.

Yesterday Google announced at its developer's conference a brand new product called Google Wave. It won't be available to the public for a few months but it looks like a real winner.

So what is it?

Well here's how they described it over at Mashable:

" ... a new in-browser communication and collaboration tool that is already being hailed by some as the next evolution of email ... 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..."

It's hard to make a judgement without using the product but it stikes me as an inspired idea that fills a real need. It brings together in one place a whole series of disparate elements in a way that that will potentially change our way of working.  Kind of like email for the FaceBook generation..

Will it take off?  Well that fact that Google have made the API (and much of the app code) Open Source is really going to help. That's the sort of thing Microsoft would never do.

And if it takes off, it won't only be Microsoft who will be worried. Indeed the owners of MySpace, FaceBook and Twitter should really start thinking about some of those atractive purchase offers they have recently rejected.

Read the Mashable article here: http://mashable.com/2009/05/28/google-wave-guide/

YouTube Video: Google Wave Founding Team Interview

YouTube Video:Google Wave Introduction Screenshots  (Turn sound off!)

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