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How do you think Google Wave will affect your small business? If you’re not familiar with Google Wave yet, it’s a newest online social media front Google has put together, scheduled to come out later this year. Google Wave combines blogging, email, instant messaging and more, all in real time as you type.
Here’s a Google preview presentation of Google Wave if you’re not familiar with it and you’d like to learn more.
How do you think it will affect how you do business? How you relate to your customers? How you relate to your suppliers? How about your competition? Is there a way to build new business around it? These are all questions I’ve been asking myself since I heard about Google Wave around the first part of June this year. Since then I’ve been wondering how it will change my small business.
Since Google Wave will be an open source product, I’m sure there will be some great applications and extensions developed once it’s up and running. Which means it could be tweaked for different industries or needs.
I think the biggest change will be to how we communicate online. When you type something into the Google Wave instant message system, it will be seen instantly by the person on the receiving end, even while you’re still typing. So no more changing your mind about sending a message. The recipient can get it real time. Even more reason to think about what you say before you say it.
You can request to know when Google Wave is released, if you want to check it out.
What do you think of Google Wave so far? Do you think it will change the way you do business?
Image via wave.google.com
This will have a substantial influence on communication and even remote-operations capabilities. I’m excited to see where we go with tools such as this.
Yes, there are two options, but if you are typing the message in real time, there is no turning back. I said the recipient “can” get the message in real time, not would. I guess I need to be more specific in the way I said it.
I wasn’t really trying to “sauce” up anything. I’m not claiming to know all about Google Wave either, just learning about it like everyone else, and wondering how it will affect the way we do business.
As mentioned in the report,
“…So no more changing your mind about sending a message. The recipient can get it real time. Even more reason to think about what you say before you say it.”
That’s got a very negative connotation and also is half baked information considering that Google Wave offers the option of sending any message real-time or upon the completion of the same. I’d suggest the author understand a product as a whole before saucing up the report.