{"id":357,"date":"2009-08-19T23:59:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T18:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prasad.freevar.com\/go\/?p=357"},"modified":"2011-03-22T11:53:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T06:23:36","slug":"new-wave-of-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/new-wave-of-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"New Wave of collaboration!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While reading collaboration &amp; social networking, I realized that this domain features a brand new &#8216;wave&#8217; of products. Products that will take collaboration, communication, mash-ups and mobility to the next level. And ultimately replace email! Shocking, ain&#8217;t it? I started believing it after checking out the Google Wave demo. Wave is set to launch in September while Shareflow, with lesser jazz, is already available.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Wave &amp; Shareflow are build on similar concepts that derive benefits and overcome short-coming of email, blogs, forums (bulletin boards), document sharing and chat. A few highlights of this genre of products:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every conversation, discussion, document, plan &amp; blog post will start as a wave or flow (wave hereon)<\/li>\n<li>Participants can be chosen at the begining or added at any time (Surprisingly with Wave, Picasa albums and Blogger posts can be participants that can stay updated)<\/li>\n<li>Newly added participants can review\/playback the entire wave as it got &#8216;bigger&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Pictures, videos, documents can all be added to a wave, thus shared.<\/li>\n<li>Participants can add replies inline to the wave; If the reply applies to a part of a message, the message can be split so as to specify what exactly it refers to<\/li>\n<li>Data from waves can be exported as a document, blog post or even a photo album.<\/li>\n<li>Gadget development will flourish through offered APIs. Gadgets too can be embedded.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two, however, differ on 3 aspects: cost, time-to-market &amp; feature set. Wave is still in limited preview, while Shareflow launched in July 2009 &#8211; just after Wave was first previewed. Shareflow is &#8216;more commercial&#8217; and offers a free-version with a lot of restrictions (25MB, only 5 flows); subscriptions merely changes allowed volume &#8211; the feature set for all users is the same. After the Wave demo, it felt really sloppy and seems to lack a lot. I will soon dedicate a whole post to [permalink href=&#8221;362&#8243;]Shareflow short-comings[\/permalink].<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wave, on the other hand, was introduced by a Google co-director as being essentially open-source (~free) that will develop further on community effort. First previewed this May at the Google IO 2009, access to the sandbox is limited to a privileged few present at the event. Like any other Google product, it will be remain a perpetual beta, and user base will slowly expand (mostly through invitation like Gmail) to 100000 by Sep-end. The Wave homepage has a 80 min must watch video that I have added below. Although there is a lot of talking, all highlights mentioned above have been well demonstrated. If possible, to take time out to watch it! (I am yet to watch the last 25 mins)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube v_UyVmITiYQ Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I\/O 2009]<\/p>\n<p>There is very little to read about on the internet and fewer screenshots are available. I have used a single large screenshot, pieced it to highlight key features of Google Wave, as explained in the video.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/prasadgupte.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/wave_full.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Google Wave Preview\" src=\"http:\/\/prasadgupte.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/wave_full.png\" alt=\"Google Wave Preview\" width=\"400\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Wave Preview<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/prasadgupte.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/wave_messages.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Message in Wave\" src=\"http:\/\/prasadgupte.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/wave_messages.png\" alt=\"Message in Wave\" width=\"400\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Message in Wave<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/prasadgupte.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/wave_attachments.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Wave Attachments\" src=\"http:\/\/prasadgupte.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/wave_attachments.png\" alt=\"Wave Attachments\" width=\"400\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wave Attachments<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/prasadgupte.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/wave_participants.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Participants\" src=\"http:\/\/prasadgupte.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/wave_participants.png\" alt=\"Participants\" width=\"400\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/prasadgupte.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/wave_inbox.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Inbox\" src=\"http:\/\/prasadgupte.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/wave_inbox.png\" alt=\"Inbox\" width=\"400\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inbox<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 182px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/prasadgupte.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/wave_management.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Management\" src=\"http:\/\/prasadgupte.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/wave_management.png\" alt=\"Management\" width=\"182\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Management<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 182px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/prasadgupte.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/wave_contacts.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Contacts\" src=\"http:\/\/prasadgupte.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/wave_contacts.png\" alt=\"Management\" width=\"182\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conacts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reading collaboration &amp; social networking, I realized that this domain features a brand new &#8216;wave&#8217; of products. Products that will take collaboration, communication, mash-ups and mobility to the next level. And ultimately replace email! Shocking, ain&#8217;t it? I started believing it after checking out the Google Wave demo. Wave is set to launch in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/new-wave-of-collaboration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Wave of collaboration!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,726],"tags":[388,118,393,582,394,583,395,390,392,389],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-product-reviews","tag-collaboration","tag-google","tag-google-wave","tag-linkedin","tag-open-source","tag-pm_ux","tag-protocol","tag-replace-email","tag-review","tag-shareflow"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}