Google Wave, an impressive Communication tool

After seeing the demo of Google wave at Google I/O 2009, I am quite impressed with it and waiting for its official launch. With Google wave, People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Google wave is an Open Source program. It uses a tree structure of messaging and its shared.

I am listing here some of the features of Google wave which will be launched later in this year.

Google wave combines Instant Messaging with email. It uses a shared server to save the conversation. For example you leave a message to your friend and go offline. Once your friend sees the message he reply to it in wave which is similar to chat window and later you can see it when you open google wave again. Whats different from email is you can use Google wave effectively for OFFLINE CHAT since the entire conversation takes place in server. Also you can say to your friends in the wave what you are doing at present just like twitter.

And suppose now you want to add another friend(say 3rd person) to the wave, he can see all the conversation that took place between you and your friend initially. There is also a PLAYBACK option, from where the third person can know the order of conversation took place between you and second person.

Google Wave also speeds up your instant live messaging by sending character by character live instead of waiting for the whole message to send at once. I sometimes hate messengers when it shows at the bottom John is typing.. and I have to wait until all the typing is completed to see his message, but with Google Wave you can see live transmission as you type, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time. Pretty awesome feature from Google wave team.

Sharing Photos is very simple in Wave, Just drag from your desktop to the browser and instantly all of your friends present in wave can see the photos and also download them.

You can also use a lot of embedded APIs from Wave Team. You can send live messaging from your mobiles using wave application. And there are lot of other features on which the Wave team is currently working. Check out the video for complete demo on GOOGLE WAVE: