Google Wave – The Future of Presentation Collaborations?

Google Wave, the future of emailing, is coming. You might be thinking: “hang on, what’s a Google Wave?”

Imagine this…

You’ve got a presentation to create for work and ordinarily you’d go to your co-worker who loves doing speeches and ask her to check out your speech and you email it to her.

She emails it back and you end up with multiple versions of the same document. Now Google released a programme, currently still in beta, not so long ago called Google Docs which allows you to collaborate online so only one version of a doc exists and you just edit it online.

Google have now gone one stage further… they have created Google Wave. This is a piece of software, which will be open source, that will not only allow you to collaborate online on documents, but also provide you with a new way to email, send SMS, easily add pictures, integrate with Twitter and so on.

Tonnes of Tech blogs have leapt on this new software and are blogging about it’s feature and all the tech stuff and so on. After watching the presentation which last 1 hour 20 mins I laughed to myself about the possible creative applications for this software. Actually I laughed all the way through as the applications looked amazing.

Say you have a comedy writer friend in another country, let’s use the U.S. as an example as I am currently based in the U.K. and lets also say that, for giggles, I have landed a TV writing contract here. I’ve known my American friend for a long time and we really gel and bounce off each other well.

Using Google Wave we could write a script together which I could submit to the production company here. The problem then could be does he get a writing credit too? Or does he just ghost co-write it for a nominal fee?

Or maybe you just write your script and you get your friend to come in and punch it up for free and return the favour for him at a alter date.

Not only that, but if your friend’s first language is French and he works more comfortably in his native language, Google Wave automatically translates his French collaboration into your own language. Google wave also integrates with blogging software, which allows for your wave documents to being published on your blog. Assuming they sort out the functionality for it to work across a variety of blogging platforms. Even if Google don’t someone will adapt it as the software is being made open source.

Now imagine what this could do to presentations that you create with PowerPoint or Impress…

Here’s further information on the software Google Drips with Ambition.

At the time of writing I have been unable to find a launch date for Google Wave, but the estimates seem to point towards late 2009. I have already signed up to their notification. So lets see what happens with it. Set aside some time, maybe on a  weekend, and watch this presentation. I got through it in stages.

Picture source: Google Operating System

Tagged with: Comedy Writer • Presentation • Speeches

Filed under: Public Speaking

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