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Technology: Google on Collaboration
Google has announced their vision of web Collaboration, and they’re calling it ‘Wave’.
There’s similarities between Google wave and Microsoft SharePoint and Alfresco’s Share application, but there’s a lot that’s new or at least has been recrafted with a different twist. Google’s Lars Rasmussen described the idea as follows:
“A wave is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps and more. In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it. Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the Web. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly. It’s concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave.”
Google Wave is designed as the “next generation” of Internet communication. Instead of sending a message and its entire thread of previous messages or requiring all responses to be stored in each user’s inbox for context, objects known as “waves” contain a complete thread of multimedia messages (blips) and are located on a central server. Waves are shared and collaborators can be added or removed at any point during a wave’s existence.
Some of the features that Wave will offer include:
- Google will host Wave, but since the Wave project is Open Source and you could also choose to host it on your own computers, just like an Exchange or SharePoint server.
- Wave offers live Wiki-style Collaborative Editing. Changes are real time and similar to an IM.
- Email-like features, but organized in a way that more efficiently allows collaboration, eliminating complex email trails and simplifying the use of file-uploads and attachments.
- Extensibility. Third-party developers can extend Wave by offering plug-in gadgets and robots.
- Designed to combine and mash-up content from all over the internet
Not available until later in 2009…
