So wave.google.com was just shown to me and I am a bit intrigued to say the least. Before you start reading further you may want to watch at least some of the video on the page to get an understanding of what we are talking about.
I think in the simplest sense we are talking about Google Wave merging things like IM, email, forums, blogs and wiki into a huge social service. It seems that the Google people came together and asked if they were to right e-mail from scratch starting today how would it work and Google Wave was the answer.
It is open source, people will be able to develop in it, and it is quite possible it changes forums and blogging forever. While we still have a few months to debate that, my personal thoughts are a bit less optimistic than Google’s for bloggers and more excited for the business uses. I feel for people outside the industry, personal blogging has an ego attachment that Google Wave may not take into account. What I mean is that some people that blog like to see their numbers, they like to see how popular they are, and for some reason a fair chunk of bloggers like to stay out of the social experience of blogging and focus inward. They compete with other bloggers in the industry trying to hold them down while boosting themselves up. I do not think Google Wave will cater to those people, and working on this website I can tell you we have seen a bunch of those types of people. But I may well be very wrong here, it may be something that allows people to show larger numbers because they will be able to incorporate a larger amount of people. I kinda feel like it is a more powerful version of Twitter for some reason or a Wiki extension. It also may be too hard to use for the small business owners that do not know much about software, the mothers and fathers that just want to throw their thoughts somewhere without having to worry about much else. That part though remains to be seen.
I think that people that do not get involved with Google Wave will be left behind and will be leaving some traffic on the table if they have a blog or website. It also seems that this may be something incredible for Fortune 500 businesses as well. Just what I need another thing to learn, let us hope that Google makes it easy enough and worthwhile enough and it may very well change the way we think about social networking. Some of the extensions for spell check and also links is pretty cool, it seems a little too smart for me though and may take over the world, but I guess I am a bit too late as Google has already done that.
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