Will Google Wave change the way that job boards work?
In case you haven’t heard the geeks talking about it, Google launched an important new baby in private in May (09), released it to a select few for testing – Its called Wave, and in essence its a completly new way of communicating in real-time, that has potential to replace email, IM (instant messenger) and more – there, I told you it was important. The concensus seems to be that it will either change the world or fail completely.
There’s a good overview on Mashable here. Suffice to say, I’m trying to get myself onto the beta testing list, to see how the whole thing might impact pharma recruitment.
I also think that Google Wave has thw potential to be a twitter beater, as it provides real time interactive chat. According to the wave website:
A wave is equal parts conversation and document.People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.
A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.
Its also fully accessible to programmers as it uses an open protocol, so anyone can build their own wave system.
Its not available to the public yet and wont be for a few months yet, but watch this space.
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