Google Wave
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What is Google Wave
Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration.[1] 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. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time. It has a strong collaborative and real-time focus supported by extensions that can provide, for example, spelling/grammar checking, automated translation among 40 languages, and numerous other extensions.[2]
What is Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is commonly associated with web applications which facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Examples of Web 2.0 include web-based communities, hosted services, web applications, social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups and folksonomies. A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with other users or to change website content, in contrast to non-interactive websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of information that is provided to them.
The seven principles of Web 2.0 are:
1. Web as a Platform-“Leverage customer-self service and algorithmic data
management to reach out to the entire web, to the edges and not just
the center, to the long tail and not just the head."[3]
2. Harnessing Collective Intelligence-Hyperlinking, Wikipedia, Cloudmark, Blogging, RSS...
3. Data is the next Intel Inside-Database management is the core competency of Web 2.0 companies
4. End of Software Release cycle-New releases slipstreamed in monthly, weekly
even daily basis ("Perpetual Beta").
5. Lightweight Programming Models-allow for loosely
coupled systems (syndication).
6. Software above the level of a single device-reaching from a handheld device to a massive
web back end with the PC acting as a local cache and control station.
7. Rich User Experience-XML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript...
Relativity
Google was already considered the standard bearer of Web 2.0, so it seems fitting for them to start what could be the next huge advancement in web technology and innovation, to what could even become Web 3.0.
Google hits every single principle of Web 2.0 in the development of Google Wave. Wave is a web platform that harnesses collective intelligence with database management to constantly improve to users wants and needs. It is a lightweight system that runs quickly not only on the web, but also on mobile devices. Finally, Google Wave provides one of the richest user experiences that most people have ever seen, they have virtually thought of everything, and implemented it to perfection.
Bibliography
1. About Google Wave
2. Wikipedia-Google Wave
3. Wikipedia-Web 2.0
4. O'Reilly's What is Web 2.0