Today I felt like a kid with a new toy – a new toy that was temporarily out of stock (and so my friends couldn’t get at it…yet).
I got a Google Wave invite!
What’s Google Wave? You’ve either been living under a rock or even worse…you have a life!
Anyway, Google Wave is a new product/service form Google that is currently in “Preview Mode”. Preview mode seems to be the mode before Google goes into a never ending Beta. Google Wave aims/claims/hopes to usher in a new way (wave?) of communicating.
The rationale is simple – if email were to be invented today, what would it look like? Google argues that it wouldn’t resemble anything like what we use now – all of which they say are (they say) incremental improvements over their predecessor emailosauruses – remnants of a jurassic era in computing.
Google Wave is (apparently) for today’s communication needs!
If you’ve got an hour and some minutes to spare, you could join 5.9million other people and check out this video – aptly called the looooooong video. Yes it’s long, but it’s guaranteed to knock your socks off. Trust me.
Now excuse me while I play in my Google Wave sandbox. If I get any invites, I’ll be sure to let you know.
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