Collaboration solutions are raining cats and dogs; no one wants to be left behind in the race of launching cloud based and web solutions. Google has launched its new “Personal Communication and collaboration tool “called Google Wave recently. It is a real communication platform and combines the aspects of email , IM , wikis , web chats to build one classic in-browser communication Client for use.
As described by Google a wave is a conversation with multiple participants -- participants are people added to a wave to discuss and collaborate on its content. Participants can reply anytime and anywhere within a wave, and they can edit content and add more participants as a wave develops. It's also possible to rewind waves with the playback functionality, to see what happened, and when.
It has lot of Innovative features , few of them are listed below ….
a) Real time , b)Embeddability , c)Applications and Extensions , d)Wiki functionality
e)Open Source , f)Playback , g)Drag and drop file sharing etc. etc.
While these are only few of the many features which Google wave promises to give , its easy to understand why people are excited about it.
How to get a Google Wave account ?
Its only by Invitaion ,someone already having an account should invite you. But this cycle of invitations has to be initiated from somewhere. Google has specified 4 Key ways for this as listed below ……
1. You signed up early on for a Google Wave account. - Google put up a request form for Wave invites not long after Wave was announced. Most of the invites arriving tomorrow will go to people on that list. Your chances improve if you signed up early on and wrote a message to the Wave team.
2. You have an account on the Developer Preview of Wave. - The Sandbox version of Google Wave has been active for a select group of developers for several months now, allowing them to test Wave, report bugs, and build Wave extensions. They will all get accounts.
3. Some paying users of Google Apps will get accounts. - It’s likely several companies asked Google for invites when the real-time tool launched. They will get accounts. Some schools that use Google Apps will also get early access.
4. You are invited by someone currently using Wave. - This is the most intriguing revelation made today by the search giant. Here’s how Google explained it:
