Currently our society is still dominated by the static communication through e-mails, especially many parts of Europe. This only allows nothing further, but sending e-mails as in a static private blog stationed at one person by a time.
Some make the first attempts in Real-Time communication with Instant messaging clients like google talk, Skype, Live Messenger and others. The next step we have here the beginnings of collaboration. Collaboration comes from the Latin co = with and labore = work -> work together. Modern portals such as Facebook, Sharpoint and others allow the joint work on virtual platforms. The collaboration in realtime, is only supported by a few. Since the acceptance in our society is still missing. Facebook is a pioneer here, and here is to be noted that the in recent years the platform grow rapidly from one student application to a global communication tool.
Facebook, however, allows only communication with the given resources: Pictures, videos and texts. What google with the wave allows is the cross-media linking various types of media. By opening up the API for the public the first mergers already took place.
Through the unprecedented cross-media convergence forces are free!
In other words, as early as 1970 recognized by McLuhan: "Through breeding and hybridization of the media are powerful forces and energies freely, similar to nuclear fission or fusion." Mankind faces a new groundbreaking event. And we have to wait for the right time. Such an implementation is of course with plenty of technical know-how and thus also problems. Witch surely will be solved by time.
The google wave is still in preview stage for developers and IT professionals intended to gain feedback for the future.
Google buzz, however, was already released and therefore the company and society can once again prepare a bit more for real-time communication and collaboration. This is an important strategic move from google. Unlike many other blogging and communication is a comprehensive integration into different systems possible, a buzz feed can be deployed into twitter thru the feedburner or to aggregate feeds from other publications or messaging clients.
The acceptance by the integration into the already popular and widely used gmail portal is once again interesting. Many ask themselves:
"What should I do with even such a thing" - This will be the future! It is the beginning of Real-Time collaboration in the Cloud of online systems and applications. So far a communication was in groups (Collaboration) was only solved by workarounds such as google docs or a tangled up and down fortunes of e-mails with various versions of information. That should be better with the proper use of buzz! What's missing is the fusion of different media types. This is the preparation for the next generation of collaboration and helps the buzz wave to the preparation of this!
Even google knows that this is not going to be solved at one, but we have seen what can happen within years of search engines Development :-)
Since many people view only a part of the whole and does not seem they know about wave. The product is more than just the GUI interface that most of us see, but it is also a protocol that the processing of information and transportation in Real-Time to allow many participants receiving events without causing a huge traffic and much more! Have a closer look at the API and documentation.
It's worth it!
http://www.r-p-it.de/googlewave/
http://www.r-p-it.de/buzz/
Thomas Ruta
google expert (wave, maps and buzz)
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