Google Wave and the evolving social networks

Well my friends, good old Google has done it again. WAVE...

Perhaps you've heard of it, perhaps not.
What is a wave exactly? Well...
For well over a year, Google has been developing a revolutionary online social tool, the Wave, which integrates email, instant messaging, and social networks into one program.

A wave is equal parts conversation and documentation.

People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more in real-time.

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.

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.

They have had this project going for over a year and half and are finally making steps towards giving it to the public. If you have the time watch this video, it is long though, let me warn you, but thrilling none the less, it will rock your world..

So... wave, online super social tool. This new software integrates our email, instant message and social networks into flowing livestream waves. You can watch your friends as they type a response live to your email, or easily add a friend to the conversation. This is truly revolutionary.

I think this will be google's advantage in selling it's Nexus One phone, they will have already developed the software to fully integrate this extraordinary social tool into their handheld mobile devices. I am excited to see how well this catches on, but just from this video I think it will spread fast and radically change the way people communicate. Oh Google...

There is a lot more to say about this subject and I will follow up soon.

For more check out this article at lifehacker.