by Jon Husband
May 30, 2009 at 2:11 pm
· Filed under Web 2.0
Basically he takes it apart and discusses how and why Google Wave could be an order-of-magnitude leap forward in enabling effective collaboration.
In other news, I’ve heard this past week that Microsoft will plug in, or layer over, Sharepoint with the old Lotus collaboration application Groove that helped bring Ray Ozzie to Microsoft.
Given these developments, one could not be blamed for assuming that collaboration will be THE fundamental core design principle for the knowledge workplace of the (near) future.
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Yesterday’s Google I/O keynote highlighted the power of HTML 5 to match functionality long experienced in desktop applications. This morning, Google plans to announce an HTML 5-based application – still very much in the early stages of development – that represents a profound advance in the state of the art.
Lars and Jens Rasmussen, the original creators of Google Maps, will take the stage to unveil their latest project, Google Wave. As Lars describes it, “We set out to answer the question: What would email look like if we set out to invent it today?”
That is exactly the right question, and one that every developer should be asking him or herself. The world of computing has changed, profoundly, yet so many of our applications bear the burden of decades of old thinking. We need to challenge our assumptions and re-imagine the tools we take for granted. It’s perhaps no accident that this project, carried out secretly at Google’s Sydney office over the past two years, had the code name Walkabout. That’s the Australian aboriginal tradition of going off for an extended period to retrace the songlines and learn the world anew.
.At the moment I don’t have anything to add to Tim O’reilly’s analysis. Read the rest of his comprehensive exploration of Groove Google Wave here …
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Is this the time to catch the wave and do a “hang ten”?! 
Thanks Jon. I sensed watching the presentation Google Wave was potentially game changing but didn’t have time to investigate further so the pointer to O’Reilly’s presentation really helpful. There are always nuggets in O’Reilly’s writing and reading this piece 2 stood out:
“There’s no question that the plausible promise is on stage this morning.”
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“It’s time to take another look at every application we use today, and ask the same question Lars and Jens asked themselves: “What would this look like if we invented it today instead of twenty-five years ago?”
To me it’s also interesting to look at the innovation in Google’s Wave release against Microsoft’s latest Bing. And also to think about the fact that Wave emerged from Google’s Sydney office while Chrome was built by a developer in Denmark. I wonder where Google’s home office is focused these days?
I wonder where Google’s home office is focused these days?
Isn’t Google’s home office increasing “in the cloud” ?
Just funnin’
Martin … no doubt any organization that decides to go “all in” and catch the Wave when it becomes available will feel now and then as if they are “hangin’ ten”, compared with the ways of working they have been using previously.
Jim Ware wrote @ June 1st, 2009 at 11:12 am
Thanks for the links Jon. But is that a Freudian slip? “Groove wave”?
As I watched the demo I frankly was taken back to Lotus Notes – I really resonate with the idea that email as we know it today is just a digitization of snail mail – we send information to other people, rather than having everyone go to the same source and leave the information there. The beauty of the web is that information can be centralized in one place but then accessible to anyone, anywhere (obvious, I know, but also incredibly profound).
I’m not all the way through the demo yet but I am also wondering how Wave will work in offline mode (there are still times when we can’t be online). That was one of the real powers of Groove (which we used in our business for over five years until Microsoft screwed it up).
[...] (and I was led to that by my friend Jon Husband’s post on the AppGapp blog: “Tim O’Reilly Dissects Implications of Google Wave . . .“). And I’m sure there’s lots more good analysis already out [...]
Jim, thanks for catching my Froodian clip.
Yes, I too was taken back to the promise of the early days of collaboration (Notes, etc.) and realize, once again, how far we have come and how far we have not yet gone.
John,
Thanks for your insight. So, do you know when Google will release it?
Google is always making innovations. Moreover ChromeOS will be present at the end of the year …
Do not forget to read related articles about Google Wave at the address
http://www.haikaladli.co.cc/2009/10/google-wave.html
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