Google Wave!

Thanks to my friend Megan, I've finally been invited to the preview of Google Wave. For those of you who haven't heard of it yet, Wave is Google's attempt to update the stodgy old email format. If you want to learn more about it, you can check out Google's verrrry long informational video. You can also request an invite and hope it comes through soon!

Wave is hard to describe. A wave is basically a message that's kind of like an email, but it's updated in almost-real time and it can include multiple people who all get to participate with each other. There are also search and widget features. Google says that they started working on it after asking themselves the question, if email had been invented today, what would it look like?

I think that Wave is going to be a really exciting way for journalists, especially web-focused journalists, to collaborate, communicate, research, bounce ideas off each other, etc. It's one of the best ways I've ever seen to integrate all the different communication and social media functions that journalists thrive on, and I think it has the potential to make a lot of people's lives easier.

I'm still trying to figure things out, so I'll be sure to post more as I discover all the coolness that Google has bestowed upon us!