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hey guys john r Ettinger here you may have heard a lot about Google Wave in the past weeks it's just entered a invite-only beta period previously being in alpha only so what is Google Wave if I received quite a few questions Mashable has a great overview of what the products going to be I'll put a link to it in the sidebar but I thought that officer of a layman's description of what Google Wave is so when you hear the term mentioned that you're undoubtably going to hear it in the coming weeks and months at least you'll have an understanding so let's get started a Google Wave is essentially a real-time communication platform it really combines aspects of all the communications that you're used to using online like instant messaging a web chat social networking and really project management in sort of a a single in browser communications client everything is in browser no need to install anything on your software what you can do is you can bring group of friends or businesses partners together and you can discuss whatever happened that day and share files so so far and nothing that revolutionary right Google waves got a lot of really innovative features here sort of just the highlights first it's real time so you're editing and revising documents in a real time with obviously real people things like Google Google Docs have sort of had this but I you can see what people are typing as they're typing you're essentially seeing what they see in a real time those of you that are in business it's is a really invaluable tool if those of you that are in school imagine working in groups without having actually be in groups especially if you're in different parts of campus or in some spots even across the country if you're in an online classroom it really does add a lot of usability of being in real time it's also embeddable media can be embedded in any website or blog wherever you want it's got an embed code you pop it in and suddenly you have access to your full Google Wave account and all the documents that you're working from the next sort of big point is applications and extensions just like Facebook application or an iGoogle gadget developers can really build their own app and they could be anything from I guess BOTS to real-time games so the potential of Google Wave is huge sort of you think of what Firefox is done with add-ons and all the different functionality that you get Google Wave offers the same promise just a ton of additional functionality that even Google perhaps didn't envision so that's what I think is I'm most excited about the new frontier is really just wide open for what can happen with Google Wave next it's completely open source the code will be available to anybody to help sort of foster innovation especially in the development community so again if people don't have to pay it for access to the Google Wave codes you're probably gonna get a huge influx of developers looking to get their name and word out there the downside of that is you may see some advertising on Google Wave since developers have the option to put in really whatever they want but you're gonna control the plugins you can control what shows up the next thing is a playback you could playback any part of the wave to see what was said so if you're communicating with a friend or business partner and he says or type something that's important and you forget it later you can rewind back so I'm just like hitting the rewind button in a real time which is quite useful and often times I'm working with people I forget what they said I can just rewind back and always have a record of it something that I think is really useful the next thing it uses natural language a Google Wave will auto correct your spelling even going so far as to knowing differences between similar words friends it's like being and bin which is a big thing I'll also auto translate on the fly which is huge if you used Microsoft Word or Google Docs or whatever the spell check can be helpful but often times very annoying so this is going to be a more accurate version I guess what spellcheck is next it's got drag and drop file sharing no attachments at all you just have to drag your file into the Google Wave and everybody will have access to it that makes things a lot easier than having to drag into an email type in the address and then hit Send you drag it into Google Wave everybody gets access to edit it to see it can be a great tool for presentations or just collaboration this is just a a short overview of what Google Wave can do and the potential is just wide open for this platform really excited for it I think Google's got another huge winner on their hands so what do you think about Google Wave are you excited have you gotten access to the beta program do you not care and really curious to what you guys sing so please leave comments or video description or video responses rather so I can check out we can sort of start a dialogue on Google Wave you're gonna hear a lot about it in the coming weeks and months I promise so for exclusive content check me out on Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers and to learn more about TechnoBuffalo check out TechnoBuffalo comm links to all these will be in the sidebar I believe this over there and I will see you guys in the next video bye-bye