Today Google announced a brand new product, protocol and platform. It is a very wide concept that will change the Internet as we know it, so lets me explain what it is and why is it important?

They started by thinking: mail is old, there are copies of the mail everywhere so it’s impossible to edit it. So they made a somewhat of a version of Gmail where every message exist in only one place, that allows other people to edit the mail (lets call it now on wave). After that, I guess they realized that was something like a wiki, forum or blog. In that moment they added some killer features like the ability to share that wave (who is able to see, edit, and share the wave). So, if you allow a piece of code to see and edit this content, you can make “robots” that do any kind of crazy stuff with it, from spellchecking to link parsing, image galleries to games!

Finally they allow you to add waves in different places, so you can publish this in your blog or social network!
So what is Google Wave?

• A open source communication tool that allows centralized (in federations, so you can have your own secure server) content to be shared with a lot of people, with the power of google on the server and social side.
• An infinite number of robots doing crazy stuff with the content (allowing every developer to create new stuff)
• A publishing tool to create interactive, syndicated content by using waves.

So why is this SO important?

You can connect google waves to any kind of API (with robots), creating tools to communicate, collaborate and publish information in the same way that RSS works!
This will allow people to access, edit and create content from any platform, site, client or technology that can have a wave client!

So in a nutshell, any place where you see content right now could be changed to a wave, from a bug database to a team management solution, virtually any tool in the Internet could be turn into a wave!

I’ll be in the sessions where they explain how to achieve this in the next couple of hours and I will try to get some tutorials in the site as soon as they release the tools needed to do this! Cheers, there’s a big revolution in content and context just around the corner