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We’re entering a new era of communication and human interaction. Although the Internet has been around for decades years it’s landscape is about to become dramatically different. Just like putting a note in an envelope became obsolete with the invention of e-mail so to will e-mail become obsolete when Google Wave catches on…

The Newest Wave In Communication

The beta version of the Internet began in the early 90’s and Web 2.0 came along ten years later to streamline the design, development and functionality of the early and insufficient Internet landscape and for years there have been whispers about Web 3.0. It makes sense that something should come after Web 2.0 and there have been several failed attempts to define this ever-elusive 3.0 version of the web as Web 3.0 speculation has been more theoretical than its been reality.

After all, none of the speculation caught on because it was just an attempt to repackage what already existed. Having been around since the early 1960’s the e-mail actually predates the Internet. Sure e-mail has changed since then but it is virtually the same as it was a decade ago. Blogs have existed since the early 90’s and Wiki’s were new in the year 2000. Facebook was invented in 2004, and Myspace and Twitter have been around since 2006. Nothing about the Internet communication has truly evolved for quite some time. Computers have improved along with its networks and Smart-Phones have been invented allowing for mobile Internet access but the web’s landscape has remained fairly stagnate. True, the Internet is becoming more entwined in peoples everyday lives but that’s not because the landscape of the Internet has changed. It is only because more and more people are logging on.

The stagnate waters of the web are about to be washed away with the newest tide of communication and collaboration about to be released by Google later this year. Google Wave will revolutionize communication on the Internet.

According to Google Wave’s website:

• A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

• A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

• A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

Essentially Google’s Wave accentuation on persistent real-time content enables instant collaboration, instant communication, and instant connectivity like never before. The service’s real-time collaborative tools, real-time messaging, and real time language translation tools, will transform the Internet landscape (and the world’s social connectivity) by providing the user with tools and abilities that were once only fathomable. The new (coming soon) Google Wave epitomizes the definition of Web 3.0 with the complete integration of and focus on user contribution, experience, collaboration and real-time transmission.