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Just ran across this new development and collaboration tool in Google’s latest arsenal of developer applications. It hasn’t been released yet, but has a nice 1.5 hour video describing it.

http://wave.google.com/

Thoughts?

Looks promising.

My internet connection is denying my viewing of the video’s unfortunately 😖

I for sure will be keeping an eye on this, especially the API and interfacing with existing sites.

Meh, too me it looks like a combination between everything we already have, but in real time.

Meh, too me it looks like a combination between everything we already have…

That’s why it’s a game changer.

It’s a Facebook, Basecamp, <insert social application here>, and email killer. Just as we don’t use different search engines for different types of searches, in the future we’ll be using one platform for all communication. We don’t search, we google.

Considering Facebook’s range of applications, this might seem crazy to say but it is too limiting. It doesn’t have a generic and open enough architecture to be the defacto base application for all kinds of social collaboration. By the look of the Wave demo, it does. Like google maps, you can embed it anywhere. You can even host it on your own server if you don’t trust google with your data.

Perhaps only Google has enough goodwill to challenge the establishment. Sell Zuckerberg, sell!

I really like that you can install it on your own server and have complete control over it, so a hosting company could offer this as a services. Also you can install it on a intranet for in house communication.

For anyone that wants to get wave access?

https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignupfordev/

it looks great and even though it may seem “limiting”, I doubt it was designed as a facebook killer tbh. On the facebook note btw, the chat system blows, so this will take over that.

I can see gmails voice and video chat get implemented into this, then wave will be teh ultimate interwebs communication tool.

I watched the whole presentation and a lot of things really seemed amazing, for example the wave implementation in a web site, imagine implementing google.wave as a replacement for the comment system in blogs. That would fricken take the net as a tsunami.

Will be waiting for wave to launch, I really think this has the capacity to eventually take over the email services.

I can already see this being a huge win where I work, and would love to integrate it with our current systems. It’s just too neat not too, if all else.

If it gets picked up by developers think java will become cool again as it’s build on GWT.

If it gets picked up by none technical people i think it will change website maintenance as we know it. Why should it not be possible to have wave as the backend of your site?

I read the blog posts about it where people trip over things as real time showing what you type but most things people find bad are details.

The one thing i don’t like is that it uses xml, i would rather see it use a lighter format as json or yaml, this would allow more messages until the servers saturation point is reached.

Looks Good.