So several months ago I was lucky enough to get an invite to preview the new Google Wave from noble Redditor Creator11, feel free to upvote him and send him some good karma. Now Google Wave is the latest in cross platform social/business networking tools. It has more hype around it than that Uncle Tom, Michael Jackson who basically stole my act (That’s right New Edition is the original Jackson 5). However unlike Michael Jackson Google Wave has potential to last and do good things. Also like Michael Jackson it’s so simple a vulnerable 12 year old boy could use it!
Though it is still in preview mode I can see Google wave being a vital asset in our ever shrinking world. It’s ability to share and collaborate on projects regardless of location in realtime make it as if you were actually sitting in the same room as everyone else involved in the project. So far the only collaboration tool that comes close to the collab ability of Google wave is in fact my own psychic powers which unfortunately not everyone subscribes to.
As far as collaboration goes I can best describe Google wave as a big ass hookah and everyone you invite can take a hit whenever they want, it’s like a bowl of freebase you can share with anyone anywhere. “Waves” are like realtime emails that you can add and change at will, it would be like if someone made instant messaging useful. Waves can have all kinds of content from text and scripts to videos and you can change or alter other people’s wave posts (though you should probably ask first as it is bad etiquette to do so without asking, it’s like how I always make sure I threaten Whitney right before hitting her so she has a chance to call the police.). Also Google has integrated a function that allows you to make realtime polls and charts and you can even integrate other popular Google services such Google maps and Google Earth into waves. Being able to plan things in realtime makes sophisticated technical projects like stealing my neighbor’s lawn chairs a breeze, so easy in fact I did just that and recorded it below.
I decided to test Wave by using it to organize the theft of my neighbor’s lawn chairs. After adequate self medication I logged onto Google Wave and selected the network of people I want to send my wave to, I picked the Cookie Monster, Bob Dole, and my old pal the magical flying sandwich. I start my wave with a simple line of text “Yo that motherfucker next door is flaunting his lawn chairs again, they’re all like sitting on his lawn.. We need to liberate them the hell off his lawn for humanity”. Cookie Monster messaged me back with a webcam vid of him flipping me off and eating cookies so I changed my wave to exclude him. Next my boy the flying sandwich pulled up a Google Earth view of my neighbor’s lawn chairs, they were still there.. Good, good the project was coming together. Bob Dole then posted some lawn chair blueprints which included the dimensions and interface options of the lawn chairs. I then created a pie chart of the ass to chair ratio of each lawn chair. Now that the technical details were out in the air it was time to analyze the actual theft. Dole asked me when my neighbor usually gets home from work, I didn’t know so I added my neighbor to the wave to ask him. After reviewing the plan my neighbor then added the Boston Police to the wave. Having collaborated long enough on the project I found the best course of action was to run over to my neighbor’s lawn, grab the chairs, and run like hell. Sufficed to say the project was a colossal success and I couldn’t have done it without Google Wave.
- Sitting on my new chairs, Bobby Brown
P.S. The public server/option would be better if it started out already on your contacts list.
(Note: Breaking the fourth wall here but if you're interested in adding me the address is Do.It.Yourself.Anarchy.Productions@googlewave.com)
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