Google Wave Technology is Back with Shared Spaces

The Collaboration Market is expected to be a $38 billion dollar market by 2012.

Cisco Systems is the market leader in 3 of the 6 main collaboration segments, leading in Telepresence/Video with the acquisition of Tandberg in 2010, Voice and Contact Center, and Web Conferencing with the acquisition of WebEx in 2007. Other notable leaders in the collaboration space are IBM and Microsoft in Email/Instant Messaging, Team Collaboration and Enterprise Content Management/Portals.

As I blogged about in August, the collaboration market is a tough one to break into and Google learned this with the release of Google Wave. (Read blog.)

Google is trying again with "Shared Spaces," built on Google Wave technology to let users quickly create a space with collaborative gadgets and a chat box inside.

As soon as it’s open to the general public, it will be simple and quick to create a space, grab a gadget from the gallery of 50 that already exist, and then paste the Space’s URL into a chat window, e-mail message, tweet or any other content-sharing platform.

If users know JavaScript, they can create their own gadgets and then rapidly build a Space around it, inviting all to participate.

Google didn’t say when this semi-closed Shared Spaces beta will be available for everyone, but it’s nice to know that there is yet another form in which Google Wave will still continue to exist.

Source Contribution: Steve Rubel.

 

 

Comments

[Rose Moore]

Every piece Google makes, gets extreme popularity among web users but unfortunately Google Wave could not reach that level but now this idea hopefully gonna do well and again Wave will create a real wave within it's users.