Ride the Google Wave
Ever wondered what email would look like if it was invented today?
What new tweaks and tools would email have if it were invented now or re-invented?
Well Google gives you that glimpse into email re-invented. From the creators of Google map, Lars and Jens Rasmussen, comes the highly anticipated Google Wave.
Starting with a simple question, what would email look like if it was invented today? Lars and Jens re-imagined email and instant messaging by merging both in a connected world. Thinking of email not as game of sending a message from one place to another then waiting, but as a live conversation in the ‘clouds’, effectively a wave of messages and communicating tools.
Starting with a set of tough questions:
• Why do we have to live with divides between different types of communication-email versus chat, or conversations versus documents?
• Could a single communication model span all or most of the systems in use on the web today, in one smooth continuum and how simple could we make it?
The answers simple: with the re-invented communication there is no need for divide, there will be a merge of the two worlds of instant messaging and electronic mail. Allowing the user to send both messages in real-time threaded and delayed messages, where with the addition of edition tools makes the process very interesting. The single communication model is known as a ‘Wave’. With cool extensions added for easier interface, the wave lets you posts items such as blogs, youtube links and there is even a tweet feed where you are able to tweet into and out of a wave!
Though still not fully developed this technology is promised to not only use an instant messenger technique but also combine a social network feel to communicating by email.
Google’s relentless focus is on bringing the online experience closer and closer to our real world experience of face-to-face communication.
http://www.drsavi.com/google-wave-the-reinvention-of-email/
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