Although I find the reference to a Tsunami a bit tasteless, I still find this following article interesting enough to re-post it here and give credit (trackback) where credit is due.
The title “Tsunami Warning: Google Wave, will it replace email?” is really all I find tasteless, other than that let’s just move on. The question posed here is what I think we are all looking to answer. will Google Wave replace email.
There are a number of questions that have been raised about Google Wave. Will it replace email? Twitter? How will it impact businesses? Advertising agencies?
E-mail is the most popular way people communicate online, yet it was invented 40 years ago! Google says it developed Wave to answer the question, “What would email look like if we set out to invent it today?”
Everyone uses email, instant messaging and live chatrooms online now, but Google Wave will be able to tie those forms of communications together plus utilize established social media networks such as Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.
Google Wave has the potential to be another revolutionary communications tool that greatly impacts the advertising industry, content marketing and ad agency new business.
On September 30th, Google will start sending out about 100,000 invites for the next version of Google Wave. Ad agencies will need to be prepared to get up to speed with it quickly. This will be one of those products that you have to experience first hand to understand it and use your marketing mind to explore its potential for your agency and clients. .
Here are some additional features of Google Wave:
* Wave participants can share and edit documents at the same time and use waves to track and complete projects without ever having to set foot in the same office
* Participants can also have faster conversations than they can by waiting for e-mailed replies
* Waves will come with a handy robot called Rosy, which can translate your typing, into 40 different languages, allowing you to communicate in real time with almost anyone around the world
* It includes a smarter spell checker as well as a link checker
* The ability to drag and drop files, photos, videos, etc. even from your desk-top
* There isn’t much of a question that the Wave will be a great project management tool and create greater efficiencies in internal and external communications
* Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process
* A playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when
* It is embeddable, and can push wave content to a blog or website
* You can turn a Wave into your own eBay
* Allows for collaboration on a Google map to plan events
* Wave participants can rate and review items – then it will show you a tally of the results
* Google Wave will be left an open source project to encourage the development of improved extensions from third parties which will greatly accelerate its usefulness for a wide variety of applications
Will Google Wave have an impact on ad agencies? It’s too soon to say, but it certainly has the potential to be the next big wave to further transform communications and user generated content.
I am very interested in Google Wave’s potential as a tool for ad agency new business and managing an agency’s new business program. I look forward to sharing my evaluations from a new business prospective soon.
To sign-up for the early version fill out this form at
https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignup/
Additional, helpful information is found at the Google Wave Blog:
http://www.googlewaveblogger.com
Mashable’s Ben Parr: Google Wave: A Complete Guide
