Email was conceived during the creation of the internet. It was built for the simple task of moving information between two recipients. Even though mass mailers can be sent out to thousands of people, the correspondence is truly between two people. If the person who received the email wants to reply with more information, it will only be sent back to the original sender.

Even if the email you’re replying to has many other people as carbon copies (cc), the next email you send back to the group is detached from the original. Your reply could also be lost if several others reply to the group. Email is also slow, subject to spam filters, and has the potential to be lost in transit. Every inefficiency that Email was created to solve has once again became an inefficiency in our fast paced world. Google wave is looking to tackle these problems and much more.

Google wave is a multipurpose communication tool. It’s somewhat a hybrid of email, text messaging (SMS, twitter, facebook), social/conference communication, and chat. You’ll be able to email other users of the service, allow others to join the conversation (at any point, with or without conversation history enabled) and manage all conversations using a drag and drop interface to keep everything organized.

Conversations are also no longer linear. Messages at the beginning of a conversation can be added after the initial messages, or you can add comments to other section (entire comments, or even individual words and statements) in the middle of the conversation. If you’re brought into a conversation, with history enabled, you can play a time line of message creation like a movie. This allows you to be brought up to speed on what messages have been added, when and how; without bothering your coworkers or friends to help make sense of the time line. Individual portions of a conversation can now also be split into their own conversations, with a different set of people assigned to it.

There is so much to look forward to with Google wave. We have only brushed the surface of what Google wave will truly accomplish. To get a better understanding of this application watch the video on wave.google.com, or on youtube.

Inclind Inc. is watching Google wave with wide eyes in anticipation of it’s beta that starts as early as September. It could allow our company to communicate much more effectively internally, and perhaps even with our clients in the future. Google has a sign-up on their site if you’d like to be notified when wave is available. This sign-up is also the pool from which Google will choose the beta testers.

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