Google currently has about 100,000 beta testers busy working out the kinks of its newest technology: Google Wave. The new communication venture may have a serious effect on the netbook world, especially considering the upcoming release of the Google Chrome OS.
Google describes Wave as "an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more."
It's kind of hard to imagine just what that would look like, so here's a demonstration of the concept:
Google Wave is meant to be a lot better than email – you can integrate text, videos, maps, and pretty much anything else into your Wave. It can be accessed by multiple users at once or used for private dialogue.
Indeed, considering recent advancements in 3G, the idea of a wireless, cloud-based communication platform through Google is indeed tempting for the netbook world.
If you're curious for more, check out Google's site for Wave. Beta testing is closed for now but another round is expected soon.
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