[OpenID] Google Wave is Web 3.0

[Santosh Rajan]

I am aware this blogpost of mine is off topic here. I would like to post it
here to push a case for Jabber ID's as OpenID's.

If you search the web to find out what web 2.0 and 3.0 is, you will find
them associated with social aspects. Things like web 2.0 is the "social web"
etc. But really each version of the web is a technological leap.

1) Static Web - Web 1.0 was the static web were you had to change the page
or reload the page to change its contents.
2) Dynamic Web - Web 2.0 was the dynamic web where you could change the
content without changing your browser page. (Google Maps, Ajax Pages).
3) Real time Web - Web 3.0 is the real time web where the content of the
page will change in real time as the "author(s)" changes it. Google Wave
makes this possible.

Web 2.0, the dynamic web took off in 2004 with Google maps. That is when
developers realized that you could change the contents of the page in place,
paving the way for Ajax technologies, leading to the social web.

Web 3.0 as described above is a technological leap to the next level. What
is interesting is that the very same people who brought about Web 2.0 with
Google maps, the brothers, Lars and Jens Rasmussen are also the ones who are
behind Google Wave, poised to bring about web 3.0!

Much has already been written about Google Wave, some even skeptical. But
most of the articles seem to have missed the fundamental point what Google
Wave is all about. What Google Wave has done is to combine the static,
dynamic, real time aspects of the web into one composite object called the
"Wave".

The Wave Object can be turned into anything the developer wants. It can be
turned into a message, blog comment, blog, real time game, tweet, a wall,
literally limited only to your imagination. That is why 4000 developers gave
it a standing ovation when it was revealed at the Google IO conference.
(Standing ovations are an extremely rare occurrence at developer
conferences).

Imagine a chat messenger without its text box (where you type), which has
only its display area. Now imagine that you can type right into the display
area. While you are typing the person you are chatting with can see you
typing in real time. Actually if it is a chat conference all the people can
type in at the same time and all of them can seen it in real time. You can
add, pics video's and other types of content into the display area. You can
fork off private conversations. A robot can spell check while all this is
happening. The possibilities are endless. And this is what a Google Wave is.

Actually Google Wave sits on top of the same protocol that Google Talk sits
on. The Jabber protocol now called XMPP. Google added to this protocol and
called it the Wave protocol. It is an Open protocol, anyone can implement
this protocol. Google is not keeping anything proprietary here. I can
already see an army of developers piling on to this technology and you will
see a lot cool stuff coming out within months.

Web 3.0 is here!

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Santosh Rajan
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