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What is Google Wave? Is it Better than Email?

10/07/2009 - 5:00 pm By Arnt Eriksen

Have you gotten your invite yet? Well for others who have not, here is a chance for us to take a look at what Google Wave is and answer the question, Is it Better than Email? Diana discussed the last time Will Google Wave Replace Twitter?

What is Google Wave? Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Now here is a video that explains how Google wave can make communication more efficient and effective.

Author: Arnt Eriksen

Arnt Eriksen has worked with creative and visual communication for the last 2 decades, and is one of the leading authorities within digital- and social media in Norway. With his extensive experience from the advertising industry and from running his own agency for years, he delivers and builds actionable and quality relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Arnt combines strategic and creative thinking with storytelling to engage and attract clients to companies. Arnt is a passionate and engaged speaker, keynoter and advisor to teach companies about communication and social media covering subjects such as “the future of communication”, “the ROI of Social Media” and “You – a digital brand” Connect with him at @arnteriksen

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October 8th, 2009

Yeah its much more than an email ….mostly small businesses will actually benefit a lot

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andy stewart

October 8th, 2009

Personally, I use Showdocument for online teaching and web conferencing. I’m not saying these programs aren’t good,
But I think a web-based application is always better, since there’s nothing to download or install.
try it at http://www.showdocument.com . -andy

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Kahlil Lechelt

October 8th, 2009

It’s not to be compared to email. It’s a collaboration system/software.

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hatman Reply:
February 13th, 2010 at 4:26 am

true, anyway it will replace email as soon in use… you can also say that email can not be compared with it’s preceder physical post

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Kesti

October 8th, 2009

I’ll bet if I could understand it, Google Wave would be a really wonderful thing to have.
Kes

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arthurbarbato

October 9th, 2009

excellent teaser! nice read.

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Willem van Zyl

October 11th, 2009

Google Wave is built on three concepts:

- Google’s Hosted Conversation Platform
- The Google Wave API
- The Google Wave Federation Protocol

The Hosted Conversation Platform is what the above video discusses, the Wave API is what developers can use to build even more features into Wave, and the Federation Protocol is what will allow anyone, anywhere to set up a Wave server (removing the need for a wave.google.com account to use it).

There’s some more details of these as well as loads of screenshots of the current hosted platform’s interface here: http://www.geekology.co.za/blog/2009/10/review-of-google-wave-limited-preview/ .

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hypotheek

August 13th, 2010

Hypotheek informatie, hypotheek aanvragen of afsluiten? Hypotheekrentes bekijken. Hypotheek aanbieders vergelijken, hypotheek vormen, bijkomende kosten,

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lenen

August 14th, 2010

BKR problemen? Nu Geld lenen zonder BKR toetsing? Op zoek naar betrouwbare aanbieders? Wij vergelijken banken die u toch kunnen helpen aan een betrouwbare

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