If you’ve heard of Google’s new Wave tool, and you’re like me, you probably began to watch a 1hr 20min video and decided it just wasn’t worth it.  Well, Google must have taken notice because a few days ago, they posted a new 7min 52second video highlighting some of the highlights of Wave without all of the background and hype to drag it out.

I’ve posted the video below along with the ways I foresee me using Wave in my day-to-day work and social networking.

  • Updating and checking all of my social networking sites from one interface – I already use other clients to do this and even though the video only mentions Twitter, I hope it will surely not be long before the need to add things such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Plaxo follow.
  • Collaboration within my company on projects – this sounds like a great project home for round table discussion when multiple people are on a project but may be working from different locations or completing their tasks on different time lines.  Such as in our business, where one person may set up a new client in our system and create a Wave for the new client inviting all persons in our business who might work on the project (graphic artist, web programmer, sales rep, myself).  Then, the graphic artist can complete the client’s new logo or web graphics and communicate with the programmer building the site and I can begin planning their search engine marketing campaign.  All the while, the sales rep can follow the project in real time and keep their new client in the loop.
  • The translation would be really neat if we ended up with international clients in the future or for instance acquired a Spanish speaking client but not everyone on the project knew the language, we could ad the client to the Wave so that anyone working on the project could communicate with the client.

Watch the video and leave your comments.  I’m interested to hear how others might see themselves using Google Wave.