Google wave!!!

In the not-so-distant future (end of September), Google will be expanding the current developer preview of Google Wave to 100,000 consumers. Google Wave is, in a nutshell (according to Google), what e-mail would look like if it were invented today.ISEdb.com reported on the upcoming release of Wave back in May. Recently, Search Engine Land sat down with the Google Wave team and gleaned some insight off of them about what people can expect from Google Wave.

Here are some highlights:
• Wave will require users to get used to a new way of communicating – there may be a kind of ‘culture shock’ experienced when people use it for the first time.
• The program allows users to interact with different people in real-time.
• Wave is a kind of amalgamation of e-mail and instant messaging, search and Twitter.
• A “wave” is a conversation, or, as Google calls it, a fully stand-alone discussion.
• Developers will be able to build new applications for Wave, which will be accessible to users through the platform and also individual “waves”.
• Wave will allow drag-and-drop photo-sharing.
• Wave can act as a Twitter client (and possibly a client for many other programs, including Facebook, in the future).
• Most of the emphasis has been on enterprise or B2B collaboration.
• Wave appears to be quite user-friendly, with its team pointing out that third graders in Australia took to it like fish to water.

It s google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad); eems that Wave could truly change the way we use the internet. It’s pretty exciting stuff. Many internet news websites have been commenting on how Wave could revolutionize the online world.

This Eweekeurope.co.uk article points out that Wave’s ability to roll up all the particles of conversation and collaboration that would otherwise have ended up scattered across various mailboxes and chat messages, is truly compelling.

According to Carsonified, Google Wave will have a huge impact on internet users because of its extensions, the ability to embed a Wave in a webpage, the ability for users to collaborate on Waves, and many more reasons, which you can check out here.

One blog even claims that Google Wave will replace the internet. The author explains that it’s the notion of centralized hosting that Wave offers that will give people incredible power over their messages and eliminate all kinds of annoyances we’re living with now.

This magazine says that Wave, which it calls a Swiss Army Inbox, will rival Microsoft Office, something that budget businesses will love, since Wave will be available free of cost.

Mashable, for its part, says that Wave breaks conversation conventions “left and right”, that might “confuse and even scare people”.

If nothing else, Google has certainly generated itself some high-quality buzz with this potential “game-changer”. Let’s hope Wave lives up to the hype.