Can Google wave be that wave of fresh breeze? Yes it can :D

Google wave is inarguably the best form of communication and collaboration tool that I have yet seen. I think, it has laid the foundation of beginning of the era where "email" as we know it today will become as redundant to our next generation as snail mail has become to us today.

I can't wait for it to roll out later this year!

I don't know about you, but I'm tired of limited capability of emails to effectively communicate and collaborate (including gmail), and having the need to go to tons of different websites and portals to evite, blog, send emails, chat and collaborate. Google wave seems to have addressed all of that in one!

To genuinely appreciate it you would have watch the demo, it's one hour 20 minute long http://wave.google.com/ but totally worth the watch! Mind you, this is probably the first over an hour long demo that I have actually watched. Otherwise, you can check a pretty well detailed review here http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/28/google-wave-drips-with-ambition-can-it-fulfill-googles-grand-web-vision/

To highlight some of the features:

• Replacing current email + chat type applications with one called app "wave" and a neat way to have a group conversation, at an easy way to add/unadd/readd etc. individuals as appropriate
• Dynamically embedded polls and forms inside the message!
  
• 'Play' feature is like watching a little movie of what went on in terms of who responded to what/when etc.
• Drag and drop attachments!
• Collaboration of docs considered no different from sending a regular message (although I think this might have to change in the future)
  
• Real time updates of messages is simply beautiful, i.e., after you send a message, any changes you make to it will show to all the recipients in real time and vice versa!
• Contextualized spell checker
• And more...
  

There is so much more to it, I just can't wait for its release :)