Google Wave - What's so credible !

Long before Google Wave is available for public, I have been reading many people comments & crazy about how great it is. So, what is so special about Google Wave? The below are some of the statements i heard about Google Wave:

• E-mail, instant messenging, Wiki killer
• More social networking experience than ever
• New generation way communication
• Knowledge sharing
• Collaboration, meeting, brainstorming
• Real-time documents editing, media files sharing

One of my concern is that whether it will be the biggest competitor for the 2 popular social networking sites (twitter & facebook). I am very excited to have a feel of it, so I have registered to get myself a Google Wave account. After long wait.... about 2-3 months, and finally I have received invitation to sign-up.

After logon to the site, it looks complex but it is not - it is not too much different that using web-mail, just that one special about it is the Wave - like an email attachment, any participants add to the Wave (or if it is public Wave) then they can updates, comments, write and add message on it, interactive with the Wave.

Unlike Twitter, a wave can be a discussion or topic that we want to discuss about, and we can either to restrict it to our participants, or can be opened to public and we can read other people Wave too. In twitter, we need to subscribe it to listen and tweet. So, I feel it is more suitable for business or admirers who want know their latest status updates, but all those updates (tweet) can be irrelevant because it have mixed with others topics that we are not interested in. Therefore, there many developers have make use of twitter and created applications that will capture the relevant topics and this is third parties application that we need to subscribe and use it.

In view, any good points of Google Wave, so what are the darkside? Of cource, there are many people have highlighted and comment about it, but my bad experience with Wave are below:

• Performance issues (can now be improved with Google Gears)
• Participants need Google Account to start Waving
• No revision for rollbacks when contributors mess-up my Wave
• Unable to know who is online or offline
• Unstable when the Wave have many participants

I have a few of Google Wave invitation, let me know you wish to try Google Wave. Also, I can send you an easy-to-understand manual guide on this.

Enjoy Waving :P

Source:
http://www.cio.com/article/503794/Five_Reasons_to_Dive_Into_Google_Wave
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/05/29/what-google-wave-means-for-facebook/