Google Wave, a new arrival which will refine the definition of 'real-time' website.

ิัWritten by Pintarat Praditchai (4912451 Section 401)

Although “Google Wave” has hit the sense of internet-surfer for some times, it still creates the eager for people since it has not yet released and the news from insider flows out that we will be able to touch it around the end of this year so I decide to pick this topic to talk around the performance-expectation and impact analysis before we try the learn from real experience.

“A ‘wave’ is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Here’s how it works: In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it. Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly. It’s concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave. That means Google Wave is just as well suited for quick messages as for persistent content — it allows for both collaboration and communication. You can also use “playback” to rewind the wave and see how it evolved.” said by Google.


In my scope, I would like to expand the concept of Google wave as the following:
The people tends to use internet for working which tends to be appeared in the usage of working software (such as Microsoft word, etc.), internet's content and sharing working's file system such as IM or e-mail and file-transferring protocol. For communication purpose, the real-time website tends to gain high level of interest in these days has come with the strong network making system. Google Wave shines the light on communication and collaboration.

Google Wave = Working Software/Application + content's sorting + IM (with e-mail) + truly real-time network connection

This tends to be the answer of many doubt of why Google try to develop a lot of applications. Applications merged to form platform of real one-stop service.

Google Wave which has considered itself to be product, platform as well as protocol worked on the task of combination with communication and collaboration.

However, any new creation created both beneficial and negative impact for the world. As Google Wave allows the user to interact in truly real-time (as quick as you type, the typing letter will be appeared on other users screen), it can enhance the usage of time from the sense of really immediacy which can serve the short-conscious people who tend to be less likely to wait. However, by this factor, the short-conscious can turn to be the short and careless consideration in message-typing that slips out of the brain before thinking can create conflict among the people.

Real-time system of Google Wave needs internet bandwidth to be developed hand in hand. Internet speed tends to be a barrier for just some part of the world since most of the country in the world is moving towards internet's infrastructure. However, this can create a new challenge to minimizing the bigger gap between underdeveloped and developed country.

Collaborated confusion due to the content-created in sharing manner. Although it works much like Wikis, the sense of really real-time will create the competition between internet connections of users in creating the content. The high speed of internet you have, the more likely you win the game.

Working on the online platform will open the opportunity for the confidential work to be flown out of the company due to security of online world. Google Wave appears to be very useful for working and communication. Google Wave may not be suitable for the corporate or business conference. Although anything can be tracked back to review, kept minimizing the necessity for minute taking and maximizing accuracy; online world opens holes for thief (hacker) to steal corporate's information in a full-formatted file form. Moreover, the account or password hacking is another highly risky situation. A network-membered can be the stranger who aims to attack the working-process.

All in all, these analyzed drawbacks can be solved if careful step of examining has been taken place. Grabbing all of the working's necessity in one spot, Google shows the lower importance of which operating system (OS) you have. As long as you can assess the internet, you can get everything done on Google-developed platform. In the nearest future, I think Google may step into OS field and the OS of Google tends to work only for switching on the device (laptop, desktop, mobile and any internet-accessible things) and leave all other tasks to be done online via Google's stuff as everything is as real-time as working offline. Especially for general computer user who does not occupied with computer-systematic working or highly graphical things.


This article is created for studying purpose in partial fulfillment of New Media Seminar (NM 4407): New Media Department; Faculty of Communication Arts; Assumption University.

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