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I have had a strong interest in Google Wave since May when it was unveiled. In fact, I wrote about Google Wave last month here on SeoHosting.com. At any rate, very early on, I had submitted my name and email address to use Google Wave. I just discovered that tomorrow Google will be issuing out over 100,000 invites. I hope that my name is pulled from this hat, because I will be very excited to use Google Wave.

Google Wave is an online tool used for real-time communication and collaboration among multiple people across the Internet that allows for simultaneous discussion and editing of rich formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. The wave is an equally a discussion as well as a document.

Users in the wave can communicate and work together at the same time. The reason why is because a wave is shared among users. A participant can reply or add remarks to a document, edit the contnet, and even add more people into the wave.

To keep things organized among users, a main feed playback is available so that others new into the wave can review the timeline. Another element is that a wave is always live. Even to the point where you can visibly see another user’s keystrokes as they’re being typed.

Google Wave will soon be used for blogging, wikis, message boards, traditional email, and even instant messenging. With Google Wave, all these older technologies will become mashed up into one. That said, Google Wave is not available to the general public. And tomorrow, over 100,000 people will receive an invite to use Google Wave.

I hope that my name is pulled from the hat. If you want to get your name pulled from the hat and score an invite to use Google Wave, I suggest that you watch the video presentation recorded back in May and then register your name and email address. Google Wave is something that you’re not going to want to miss out on. It’s powerful and it’s sure to change how people communicate and do things together online.

Back in May, during the second day of Google I/O 2009, Google’s Vice President of Engineering, Vic Gundotra introduced a brand new personal and open sourced communication and collaboration tool called Google Wave. This brand new tool was created by two brothers (Lars and Jens Rasmussen) who were also the creators of Google Maps.

Lars and Jens have been working on Google Wave for the past few years. But the exciting part is that it’s going to be available to the public later this year. Lars explained that the primary reason why Google Wave was unveiled during such an early stage was because they are looking for developers to tap into their API and hopefully start developing products while Google continues to get ready for launch.

Fortunately for those reading this post who didn’t attend Google I/O 2009, the entire Google Wave presentation was recorded and uploaded to YouTube. Stephanie Hannon co-presented the three part presentation which illustrates the product, the platform it resides on, and the protocol, or as Hannon referred to it as the “Three P’s.”

So what is Google Wave? Lars Rasmussen explained first by summarizing our current and mainstream technologies: Email, Blogging, Social Networking, Wikis, Instant Messengers, and so forth. And in short, he then explained that Google Wave is a mashup of everything you see today but with mass improvements. Needless to say, Google Wave, once public, may have some huge effects on site optimization, social networking, and online publishing. If time is available, I strongly recommend watching the 1 Hr and 20 Min video recording of the Google Wave presentation. As a site owner, SEO adjustments soon may be needed.  (more…)