Google issues invites to Google Wave

Not having had the chance to really use and check it out myself, I have to rely on what others are saying about the service, which is attempting to revolutionize the way people stay connected online.

What looks most promising from a user point of view is the way Wave will combine many of its popular tools and provide a single platform for users to use for their email, messaging, blogging, document sharing, wikis, and multimedia content. It could include more features as well by the time it comes live for everyone to use.

The program is designed to provide real time collaboration and sharing between users, which can be added to individual waves just by dragging them in from you contact list. This could be the next big "facebook" type program that users flock to since it offers so many other options all in one single place.

It will feature an automatic spell correction system so users can pay more attention to what they are saying as opposed to spelling everything properly. Google designers believe that using this "natural language processing" that users will be able type anywhere from 5 to 10 percent faster, which in today's world is good news, and may curb the rabid, and sometime annoying, usage of internet abbreviations that I understand less and less the older I get!

The platform was first released to developers back in May, and since then has been in the company's "sandbox", but with the new invitations the company has moved it onto its own dedicated web site to give it the power it will need once it goes live.

It looks like a pretty neat program. Users will create their own wave, and after inviting people to join the wave they will be able to add comments, photos, and even other website feeds onto the wave.

This is definitely something I will be looking forward to checking out once it becomes live. (P.s. - If anyone from Google is reading this, I would love to get an invitation to check it out!)

Here is a video (although a long one) that you can watch that will give you a better understanding of just what you can expect once you are able to use Wave yourself:




If anyone reading this has had the opportunity to check out Wave, please reply to this post and let us know what your initial thoughts are on Google Wave.