Google Wave has been announced gloriously among the top blogs and I’ve been reading and researching it to find tidbits which are the most important for us, as the Church, to come away with.
I think I’ve found it: Google Wave is Open Source.
Google Wave, with all it’s cool features, game-changing functionality, is not anything without someone to use it, extend it, and build on top of it. Open Source is Google’s adoption-strategy of choice. Not only will more people use it but their reach into markets will be significant.
And we’re all about reaching “other markets.”
Open Source is the blood and guts of innovation in this social economy, and scales quite nicely. I think this is where the Church has the opportunity to shine, because being “open” with our “source” is clearly a mark of who we are as a people and what we do with our faith.
An Open Source Communication Tool is so essential to who we are, how could we not rejoice in a one that may radically enhance how we do it online?
If you’d like more good reads on Wave, TechCrunch has one, RWW has one, ThinkVitamin, and Mashable. If you want more info on the Google Wave Federation Protocol, check it out here.
Of course, it would be remiss of me not to have the big epic video, so I’ve got that after the jump:
vajaah says
I am officially 1hr 20 min behind schedule due to this Google Wave demo! Thanks John ; )
human3rror says
you're welcome!