Google Wave expanding to 100,000 consumer users

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The current “developer preview” of Google Wave is going to hit nearly 100,000 consumer users by the end of next month, September 30. Isn’t it amazing and this is not all according to Google, “included in this group of early testers will be some of the businesses using Google Apps.” In the anticipation of this extensive release we got some news from the Google Wave team.

It’s an exciting — possibly breakthrough — product that eludes simple categorization. Google Wave comes with lot of potential in it and has to do much more than we expect. It is all about a cultural adaptation obliged by it. The users may have to get used to communicating in a kind of layered environment that Wave allows and requires.

Google Wave looks more like an email client. But with Wave it permits multiple users to interact in real-time with each other. It is a blend of email and IM with some Twitter and iGoogle mixed in it. Talking about iGoogle, Wave will generate a developer ecosystem and permits existing Google Gadgets and the new social gadgets to work within it. In simple words, developers can build apps and users can access or import them within the same platform and individual conversations.

With Google Wave you can also drag and drop photo sharing. This is one cool feature which allows full screen slideshow of images added by any user participating in a wave. Lately, Yahoo has been taking a lot of interest towards developing something like this with a series of Yahoo Mail up gradation taking place every now and then.

Google Wave

Google Wave can also act as a Twitter client or embed Twitter clients (and can be assumed to be like Facebook too). Wave can also be assumed as a feed reader for news. The third party developer efforts will enable Wave to grow and change indeed, built around basic functionality of real-time communication and collaboration. It also goes without saying that Google Voice and Google Talk will also be integrated into Wave, and so on.

It might be too early to discuss this but the key to the mainstream appeal and adoption of Wave will be its ability to incorporate existing email accounts and function as traditional email client. Most emphasis was on enterprise or B2B collaboration during the demo.

It seems like the teens would recognize this as a social tool and a potential successor to IM. Google’s Rasmussen conveyed an anecdote about a test with Sydney (Australia) 3rd graders who used Wave and apparently had a great deal of fun with it. Eventually, Wave is something which can be used by both developers and 3rd graders equally.

As and when Wave rolls out more and more people will get exposed to it and eventually we can see whether it has potential and the ability to expand the list of scenarios.

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