Hooch Tan
07-22-2009, 09:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.solidstategroup.com/page/2804/company/tech-blog/posts/google-wave-first-impressions' target='_blank'>http://www.solidstategroup.com/page...rst-impressions</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Yesterday I was given my Developer Preview account by the Google Wave team. To say I have been eager to try Wave out since watching the original video is something of an understatement! I felt a bit like Charlie unwrapping his chocolate bar and finding a golden ticket. OK well maybe not that excited, but you know, a brand new messaging medium in a world where I receive coming on to a thousand emails, IMs, tweets and SMS messages of day is something to get excited about."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com//dht/auto/1248282443.usr20447.png" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>I have seen the video and I have read the impressions that developers are now posting about Google Wave and I admit that I still have not bought into all the hype surrounding this new project by Google. To me, it looks like a mashup between email, instant messaging, threaded conversations (like you find in some forums) and a wiki. Does it look really handy and useful? Yes. Will it revolutionize the way we communicate? Well, maybe. It may just be such a foreign idea that one has to use it for a while to really appreciate what it has to offer, but reports are coming in that a public beta will not be available until September. I am looking forward to it from a work perspective as it looks like it will be a really easy to use collaboration tool, which I am finding is becoming increasingly important in today's business world. Has anyone gotten access to a developer account for Google Wave? Does it really live up to all the hype? Please tell me that this is going to be one of Google's more successful projects.</p>