Google Wave

Hey,
now I am going to discuss the Moment of Zen:
In how far can Google Wave take the Internet to the next higher level?

In this moment right now, we have several tools to communicate online, such as instant messengers (ICQ, AIM...), emails and their specific programmes (Thunderbird, Outlook), online chatrooms, web-based telephoning (Skype) and so on and so forth...
You can use all these tools and programmes at once, but you need a whole load of tools.
Google will revolutionize this: Google Wave combines all these tools mentioned above and forms ONE specific web interface.
This platform allows it for each user to communicate with others either synchronous (at the same time, see instant messaging) or asynchronous (email). But that is not all: Wave tends to real-time communication. This does not only cover chatting, but also collaboration concerning documents and photo editing. Collaboration? Yes! Users can work together on one project, but they do not have to sit together around one table. That IS the next higher level, isn´t it?? I am completely astonished by this...

By the way: the name "Wave" derives from this collaboration. Each user working on such a project can see the the design steps other used made to finish their process with the aid of a replay function.

Internet really becomes more and more and more and more and more interactive; to May 28th, 2009 I could not imagine this being possible - but I was disabused ;)

Here you can check out the whole presentation of Google Wave by its developper Lars Rasmussen in San Francisco - don´t get deterred, it´s a quite long video! :)

http://wave.google.com/