Google Wave
Over the last two weeks, I have been playing around with Google Wave. I was able to get an invite from a friend, and so far I have found the web based application…interesting.
As the site is only in its beta, I have only around 8 friends, which really limits its use, however once the site is released to the public it will become more useful. Google Wave lets you create ‘Waves’ which are really just like a blog post mixed with an IM. You can chose which friends you wish to share the ‘Wave’ with, and you can do various things with the ‘Waves’.
- Your chosen friends and you can post as many new posts as you’d like, and you can go back at any stage and edit any one of these posts.
- You can format any messages.
- You can add widgets such as Maps, which you can further alter. eg, you can draw on a map to show a friend a location, or route.
- You can see your friends create/edit in real time, and they can see the same of you.
Google Wave really isn’t about social networking to the degree that Facebook or MySpace is – it’s very closed. You cannot browse friends of friends, and the only way to add some to Wave, is if they are a current Wave user and you know the email address affiliated with their Wave account. Google Wave is really a more dynamic way to share information.
