The Google Wave team makes some conference visits, aiming at corporations at Enterprise 2.0and the educational market at Educause. Google seems to have created a cool tool, and is now trying to figure out what it is good for. It will be interesting to see if it changes much as it comes out in a more general release.
Internet Evolution – Rob Salkowitz – Google May Not Catch a Wave
But to me, the real question about Google Wave is not its technical excellence, but its practical path forward in the enterprise…
That’s because Google Wave doesn’t simply augment and improve the way people work: It reinvents work processes fundamentally…You have to embrace the idea of sharing and collaboration at the very center of the work process, and allow the values of organizational productivity to completely subsume the individual work product. How many people work like that?
Wave is a new kind of communication and collaboration service that is so hard to explain that the company usually points people to an hour-and-a-half video to explain how it works…At one point, a college leader asked the panel from Google if Wave would be compatible with IMS Global standards, which helps education software from various vendors work together. “What’s IMS?” said Anna-Christina Douglas, a Google product-marketing manager. “That’s why we’re here,” she added, noting that the group hoped to make the service more useful to the education community.
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