Google Wave: Web 3.0 is coming?
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
At the conference, Google I / O that takes place in San Francisco, Google unveiled its most ambitious proposal for online communications that aims to revolutionize social networking and collaborative environments in the same way that Gmail mail services revolutionized years ago. Google Wave is the name of this ambitious project, expected to debut later this year and in this report as usual we will in question.
Google Wave born in the genesis of the brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen, after Google bought in 2004 the small company they did and what was brewing today is Google Maps. Sergey Brin, Google co-founder, said the brothers formed one of the teams with the greatest amount of freedom in the history of Google and they decided to “give them the benefit of the doubt” to see what was up. The result was just brilliant, a perfect blend of Gmail conversations, twitter speed and privacy options, and APIs such as Facebook, wanting to be a multipurpose platform that can be extended to virtually any field. All this in real time and without complications.
The way Google works is simple Wave: starting works on the browser (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari? Or Internet Explorer?) Where a user creates an issue, either submit a post to your blog from Wave, sharing vacation photos, set production targets for the quarter for the company or create a group to discuss the contents of a class. Then the creator can add more users to the “wave”, which in turn can add more people or users can join an existing wave. There will also be the option to not allow, for example, invited people to invite more people to the wave. Google Wave can also translate your messages if your collaborative group within someone does not speak your language, you can upload photos via drag and drop “service not included as maps to guide your contacts to your home or workplace, spell checker , create polls, chat, among many other things.
Rasmussen Brothers Wave define Google as an attempt to “combine the conversational-type communications such collaborative communications,” inspired by the two services used by the Internet, email and instant messaging-are based on two services such as old mail and telephone. The two forms of Wave jostle for Google Gadgets will be doing as if it were Adobe AIR, which can create small, simple programs, or create robots to help users perform tasks and can extend the platform as above to virtually any field .
Google Wave is developed using AJAX, is a free service that will debut at pulblico in general later this year, that is currently only available for developers, for that Google has released an API (application programming interface) with the Wave target for developers to build tools and services to this new platform that promotes social collaboration.