Google Wave Finally Here - Should SMBs Care?

Google's Wave collaboration tool is It’s part e-mail, part instant messaging. It enables collaboration so real-time that you see what colleagues type one character at a time. And it can be embedded in blogs and other sites. Could this be useful in your small business?

"At 2009′s Google I|O developer conference, the big news was the debut of the company’s uberambitious Wave workgroup service. And it was big news: I got all giddy and called it the new epicenter of the Google-Microsoft wars; my friend Jordan Golson, on the other hand, thought it was breathtakingly arrogant.

And then not a lot happened. The service stayed in private beta. It was a hot ticket for awhile, but a running gag quickly developed: “Hey, I got into Google Wave–now what?” References to chirping crickets were common. After a while, people stopped talking about Wave much, period. The world moved on to other subjects–like the vaguely Wavelike Google Buzz."