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EMAIL IS SO

1973An Introduction to Google Wave.Could this spell the end for email?

Tom JarrettRed Magma

SUE SCOTTSUE SENDS A MESSAGE TO SCOTT

SUE SCOTTSCOTT REPLIES TO SUE

SUE SCOTT

SUE SCOTT

PURCHASING TEAM RESPOND

INDIVIDUALLY

SUE SCOTT

NO-ONE REALLY KNOWS WHO SAID WHAT TO WHO

NOT MUCHHAS

CHANGED SINCE ROYAL

MAIL*

*OTHER THAN THE AMOUNT IN YOUR INTRAY

WHAT WE NEED IS

A way to collaborate with groups of stakeholders

efficiently

The tools to work across geographical

boundaries

WHAT WE NEED IS

A solution that brings together our many forms of online communication (IM, social

networks, blogs etc)

A system that developers everywhere can contribute to

and improve to keep up with our changing demands

IN TODAY’S WORKPLACE, WE USE EMAIL TO DO ALL KINDS OF THINGS...

GLOBAL TEAMS PREPARING DOCUMENTS

SHARING NEWSIN A HEARTBEAT

CAPTURING opinions

A B C D E F G H I J

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

COUNTING UP THE LATEST DATA

192

4517

THE LIST GOES ON....

SO GOOGLE CREATED A “HOSTED CONVERSATION” CALLED

WAVE

NOW SUE AND SCOTT CAN SEE THE SAME CONVERSATION IN

REAL-TIME....

WAVE

AND SUE CAN INCLUDE PURCHASING!

ALL USERS CAN EDIT THE WAVE

AT EXACTLY THE SAME TIME

Everyone’s screen updates as fast as they can type

YOU CAN EVEN REWIND AND REPLAY

A WAVE

40

INSTANTLY TRANSLATE BETWEEN

LANGUAGES

CONVERSATION

NOW YOUCAN HOLD A

BROWSER BASED

WITH INTERNATIONAL

COLLEAGUESIN REAL-TIME

BUT WAVE IS MORE THAN JUST REAL-TIME MESSAGING

WAVE IS OPEN SOURCE...

FACEBOOK

SO IT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO INTEGRATE APPLICATIONS SUCH AS...

FACEBOOKMYSPACE

SO IT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO INTEGRATE APPLICATIONS SUCH AS...

YOUTUBE

FACEBOOKMYSPACE

SO IT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO INTEGRATE APPLICATIONS SUCH AS...

FLICKR

YOUTUBE

FACEBOOK

SO IT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO INTEGRATE APPLICATIONS SUCH AS...

MYSPACE

FLICKR

YOUTUBE

BLOGGER

FACEBOOK

SO IT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO INTEGRATE APPLICATIONS SUCH AS...

MYSPACE

FLICKR

YOUTUBE

BLOGGER

WORDPRE

SS

FACEBOOKMYSPACE

SO IT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO INTEGRATE APPLICATIONS SUCH AS...

ADD REAL-TIME TOOLS TO YOUR DISCUSSION:

LIVE POLLING

LIVE POLLING A TWITTER

FEED

ADD REAL-TIME TOOLS TO YOUR DISCUSSION:

LIVE POLLING A TWITTER

FEED A MULTIPLAYER

GAME

ADD REAL-TIME TOOLS TO YOUR DISCUSSION:

UNLIKE MOST ONLINE TOOLS, YOU DON’T NEED TO VISIT ONE PLACE TO USE WAVE

WAVE FROM

or

YOUR WEBSITE,

YOU MAY CONTRIBUTE TO A

WAVE IS NOT JUST A GOOGLE SERVICE

THEIR OWN WAVE SERVER

WHICH IS NOT DEPENDENT ON ANY GOOGLE TECHNOLOGY.

CORPORATIONS CAN

GOOGLE SAYS IT WILL ALSO INTRODUCE A MARKETPLACE FOR WAVE APPLICATIONS SO THAT ANYONE CAN CREATE AND SELL NEW REAL-TIME TOOLS*

AND MAKE M NEY

* Source: http://www.businessweek.com/

COULD THIS SPELL THE END FOR EMAIL? YOU DECIDE.

WAVE.GOOGLE.COMCURRENTLY IN LIMITED PREVIEW PHASE

thanks :)

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