Online world is filled with savvies using instant messaging and emailing to keep in touch with their friends, families and clients. However, what would happen if you can get both the forms of communication together in an application and have it supplemented with other sought after features as well.
The creation of Stephanie Hannon and the Rasmussen Brothers (Lars and Jens) from Google Australia, Google Wave, which was released in October 2009, is exactly that.
Wave has been launched with the idea of allowing users to access a platform, where they can not only access or share contents, but also access a host of things without giving too much of pressure on their browser by opening a number of tabs.
There are several features of Google Wave, which made the application, one of the most anticipated releases of the year:
- With Google Wave, users are allowed to communicate as well as work together. In addition to that, they get maps, videos, photos and richly formatted texts.
- Participants are allowed to reply wherever they want to in the message. They can even add participants and edit content at any given point. There is an option of playback in the application, which permits them to rewind and see what was being said when they were not there.
- Wave offers Live Transmissions. Thus, participants have faster communication and they can see edits in a real-time environment.
- Google Wave API gives them the option of adding live social gadgets. So, they can access social networking sites Twitter, Stumble Upon, Digg and Facebook, together at the same time.
- The application gives them the opportunity to use their own app within the wave.
- Again, uploading is fun in the Wave. What a user needs to do is drag the file from its source and drop it in the wave.
The features, no doubt, are impressive. However, it is still too early to tell what kind of wave will the Google Wave generate in the mind of a user.
Tags: Creating Wave, Google Wave, Google Wave API, Live Transmissions