Yesterday. I finally received my invite to Google Wave! It’s a new Google service said to be “the way email would look like if it was invented today.” Which a pretty big saying, because email was invented about 40 years ago. So its actually a pretty ancient technology in the Internet age where daily new innovation is key to survival. Also, there seems to be a growing trend toward “cloud computing”, which is moving more an more toward web apps. I for one find the web the new desktop and look forward to the future were we no longer rely on saving to desktops and therefore allow us to access data anywhere around the world. Of course, the places you go will need Internet access, but in the future who knows how this will be available for everyone.
Anyway, I will be trying out Google Wave in the next few days and weeks and hopefully get using it quite a bit. Maybe even make blog posts from it. I can already tweet from it using the tweety-wave@appspot.com robot, which is pretty cool. So far I can tell that Wave is not a finished product and in no way is it ready for mass market use. Hence, the “preview” tag attached to it instead of beta. Soon I will try to do a post on what Google Wave is and a little bit of the ins and outs. As of now I cannot offer invites, which makes it less useful, but hope to get more friends and family on it soon.
