Google Wave: A New Way to Communicate

Google Wave may change the way you communicate on the web. Google Wave combines email and instant messaging into one application, but that is only a small part of what a Google Wave can do.

I am not going to try to reinvent the wheel in this blog by trying to give you all the highlights of Google Wave. However, I will give you a few reasons why you may want to learn more about Google Wave and sign up for alerts.

Innovative Google Wave:

• Works in real time: you can interact with your recipient instantly while writing your email.
• Ongoing conversations: no need to email back and forth. The wave allows you to have an ongoing conversation.
• File sharing is easy: just click the document or file, drag it to your Wave and drop it in.
• Real time spell check: which will automatically correct misspelled words. More than that, Google recognizes when common words have been misused, such as to and too.
• Rewind: there is a feature that will let you "rewind" or "playback" any part of a wave.

Google Wave as defined by Google:

• A wave is equal parts conversation and document.

People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps and more.

• A wave is shared.

Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then, playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

• A wave is live.

With live transmission, as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

At present, Google Wave is still in development. But, on September 30th, Google will begin to send out invitations to be part of the wave experience.

View Google Wave Screen Shots

View the Google Wave Video Presentation

Sign Up For Google Wave

Google Wave: A Complete Guide - Mashable The Social Media Guide

If you're curious to find out more about Google Wave, please click on the video below. Be aware, though, that the video is 1 hour and 20 minutes long. If video doesn't play, please click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ.