Web communication and collaboration future ways by Google wave and Colayer

Today’s communication media is Email; Email has lot of disadvantages like

1. No contextualization

2. Distributed interactions causing information kiosks.

3. Fragmentation of information and multiple inconsistent copies of the same information.

4. Spam

With introduction of Google wave Google is trying to provide a platform which will replace today’s email systems. How Google wave will replace email? Look at the features offered by Google Wave

1. Real-time contextualized communication.

2. Document Collaboration and Management, Co editing

3. Drag and Drop

4. Playback History

5. Rosy -This is a robot created for wave that will translate your conversation in real-time.

6. Open Source

7. Federation - Anyone can run their own custom version of the Wave software on their own server.

8. Robots and Extensions - Google will provide a rich API with Wave that will allow developers to build on top of it and extend its functionality.

Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ

Also Colayer is a platform with concepts similar like Google wave

Colayer provides features as

1. Real-time contextualized communication through human expressions.

2. Document Collaboration, Management, Versioning.

3. History

4. Online meetings and presentations

5. Communities

6. Real time updates

7. Web site content management

8. Information collection and compilation.
Questionnaires, trials and web diaries

9. Social networking tools and virtual organizations

10. Email, Sms, Colayer alerts

To experience Colayer Visit http://www.colayer.com