At the BIGWIG Social Software Showcase July 13, eight presenters gave brief talks on trends in social software in a “speed-dating” format, where each presenter had 10 minutes to talk to a roving audience. I was most interested in hearing Jason Griffey’s talk on Google Wave, a product that, I admit, I hadn’t paid much attention to until his presentation.
Griffey introduced Google Wave as a completely new communications protocol, which combines chat and email for “synchronous and asynchronous communication that’s both public and private.” Griffey conceded that it’s difficult to explain and points to his presentation and to Google’s for a good start. “It’s like email if email were invented in the 21st century,” he said.
We have four different types of online communication today, according to Griffey: email, chat and IM, forums, and Twitter. Among these communication protocols, email is the oldest, with wireless email transmissions as we know them today dating back to 1971. Since then, we have created better, prettier, and more sophisticated ways to handle our email, but the raw transmission and the protocols to transmit the information have changed little.
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