Google on its way to web domination?

Years ago, when Google only had its search engine, I read an article somewhere saying that Google is preparing for World Domination. Probably the basis of the following website: GoogleWorldDomination.com. I asked my colleagues  then how in the world would a search engine company dominate the world?

With Google's latest and probably greatest product - Google Wave - I think I've got my answer.

Google Wave consolidates the most important internet communication technologies into one simple interface. You can do everything from simple messaging to complex simultaneous wiki-type editing.

But what amazed me was the playback feature where you can playback how a “wave” transpired. It’s like having a remote control on your threaded email conversation.

Another feature that I liked is that when you make a change or reply to a wave, the changes are sent real-time character by character to the server, then to other wave clients.

With a complex protocol to enable a lot of features, I wonder how “real time” it will be in real life setup - server on a datacenter and clients on a regular DSL internet connection?

One true step for Google in World (maybe Web would be a better word) Domination is making Google Wave open source. That means anyone can download the software and upload it to their server.

If Google Wave becomes successful, then Google will be living inside the majority of the world’s servers.

Another exciting feature of Google Wave is the ability to create extensions on both client and server side. This allows web development companies (like KayWeb) to create customised versions of Google Wave and onsell it to clients.

In future, we at KayWeb will most likely be doing this sort of Google Wave customisations!

What kind of customisation? We cannot reveal. We can confirm that a trademark is already pending for our desired products.

Unrelated to what we will do, we would like someone to create a Skype extension for Google Wave to allow for Voice and/or Video calls.

My fearless forecast is that one day, email will be a thing of the past and wave dominate us all.

I can see my Managing Director Haig Kayserian asking me to 'wave him an update' or 'start a wave to discuss KayWeb's next brilliant business idea!