Etai Tavor

hi ,

Today the burning issue is whether Google wave succeeds in turning the way we communicate.

To those unfamiliar with the term, Google wave is a new technology launched in May 2009 by Google. They called “it part email part document, part sharing , part instant messaging”. It should have been released by now , but last time I checked it, it was still available under invitation only.

My guess is that they want to secure the system for hacking attempts , the client and server are open sourced . This might put them or anyone who uses it at risk...

Google has transformed the search engine market, taking their engine from infancy to a fully developed commercial and marketing tool. As you might remember , ten years ago we were looking mainly for content and nobody knew how to analyze what we searched for, or how to connect your product to searched key words. Then came Google, and the market was transformed, from content to targeted keywords, from free text articles to SEO and SEM optimizations, where will the next decade take us to, I wonder.

A hint of Google future plans was unveiled in may 2009 when they launched "Google wave" a real-time communication and collaboration tool. In one of the most outstanding parts of their demo  they showed real time multi-editing of a single document by several people, quite amazing. Imagine that you can work on a document, sitting at your desk at home, while receiving comments from an editor sitting across the world, writers would hate this, since their editors can see what they write in real time. Imagine the impact of it on journalism, a story could be shared and written almost instantly by a group of skilled writers. Researches would conducted in a faster pace, Imagine a group of political activists or engineers trying to draft a new product ,( beware all you pricey video conference vendors, you're future might not be so bright) the possibilities are endless.

The most important aspect of all this to me is that it is all open source, I can look into their code and say :"hey I got this new idea I want to implement, like real time video streaming to the document or getting it published to a social media site .” The cost of true collaboration would be downgraded to a point where common people are able to create innovative great leaps that they can not make right now.

I think that in ten years from now when we try to summarize the next decade, we will have to look back at this very early initiative of world collaboration, this is a tool that binds cultures together, it binds all our social beings into one wonderful tool, Google wave.

With great hope for an open source future.

Etai Tavor

Hi ,

My name is etai tavor.

My main  scope of interests are : php , apache , html , css , dhtml , javascript  scripting, mysql and Joomla.

I am an open source freelancer programmer.  mainly on LAMP / WIMP / WAMP platforms. I am offering freelance services and open source solutions . I will also write about my occupation as an independent open source expert.  so you must expect for some technical stuff . i will also write about the open source world  , networking , and new stuff  ....

I hope that you will find my site useful , don't forget to contact me for  questions ,

Etai.