Ok, after watching this presentation on Google’s Wave PRE-Alpha, I was left totally amazed. This is a MAJOR SHIFT in online communications… I may finally be able to throw away my Inbox! HURRAY! From instant collaborative communication to instant Language Translation TO the MANY references to Firefly/Serenity. Heck even the NAME of the Google Wave should sound familiar to us BrownCoats… WAVE… anybody? “I’ll send you a WAVE!”, “Mal, you have a Wave” When this has Instant Google Video Chat built in, then this is truly Firefly’s WAVE of the future! And with that it is game over for Skype, iChat, Adium, etc. I may even re-consider BaseCampHQ… and that says a LOT! But, wow, I was just awestruck by the potential power of Google Wave today. I signed up for a Sandbox account and hope to get it soon and see how it might just affect well… just about EVERYTHING about the internet!

Google's Shiny Wave

WOW is all I can say…this is THE future of the internet coming right NOW folks… Video right from within your GMAIL account… AND I have confirmed this works within Google Apps for Your Domain Gmail account as well as I have several.  No idea how this works on a PC but on the Mac it is rather seamless.  Can’t wait for the API to come out for this so we can then have Gmail VIDEO chats from right within my website to clients… time to start brushing my hair everyday and wearing better looking clothes! Just kidding… here is a screenshot of it in action…

Gmail Video In Action

I chose to pop out the window to its own window. There is even an option to make it full screen. Overall, this feels tighter and faster than Skype so far. Skype is still kinda buggy as I still get odd dropped dropped account connections occasionally. Clients will email me a question cause they think I am not online!