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Google Wave Out of Beta
googlePLEXS writes "Google Wave is open to all users at wave.google.com, as a Google Labs product — no invitation needed. Google Apps administrators will also have the option to add Wave as a Labs feature for their domains, helping groups of people communicate and work together more productively." If you haven't played with it, it's worth your time just to try to think beyond the bounds of IRC/Email. It's not going to change your work flow, but I still think it's worth a bit of your time to see it.
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The Wave is a federated protocol. You could easily write an email gateway.
But Google themselves should do it, I agree.
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I can already send data through the US Postal Service, so what exactly makes email worth my time?
Moreover, just because it can be, it does not mean it actually IS.
Wake me up when someone has built an interesting application/solution using the Wave platform.
So far I see a bunch of applications that are nothing more than gimmicks.
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It's their ship to launch. If they don't do it proper, no one else will care.
You miss the point: Wave should include email functionality so that people have a "one stop shop" not waves should be forwarded to email to read.
No email integration == no future for wave.
Why would wave integrate with email? Or, rather, in what way do you think it should?
IRC doesn't integrate with email. AIM doesn't integrate with email. HTTP doesn't integrate with email. BitTorrent doesn't integrate with email.
Wave is a new protocol. It isn't really supposed to replace email. It's supposed to be a different way to communicate and collaborate. Somewhere between Microsoft Word and WebEx.
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Besides the Grocery List, Map Gadget and the Yes/No/Maybe gaget extensions, I don't see Google Wave making much of a dent in the social networking arena if that's their ultimate plan. This seems more of a collaboration tool for work, new ideas, coding, entrepreneurial type stuff. It has potential, but it's not developed around being friendly for someone to use personally on a daily basis. I like it, but it's something 'else' I have to log into to use it.
If Google were to integrate it into Gmail, then I'd be more apt to force myself into using it. But then again, I feel I have all the communication tools I need in Gmail: gtalk, e-mail and Buzz, not to mention my cell phone, txt messaging, ect. This whole drive by Big Company to come up with the next medium for real-time social interaction is exhausting; I don't want 10,000 ways to talk to my family and friends, I just want one that works.
But what you wind up with is something that looks like an interactive chat session - you can put together ideas that way but there's no structure to the end result
Isn't that where extensions would come in? I'd prefer that Wave itself not define what an end product would be and impose that on me.
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Well, it did not work the first time to get people to use Wave... so maybe submitting the "story" (or is it advertising now?) again will get people to use it... doubt it.
Group e-mail is definitely a problem.. E-mail is a problem period; really I think it's safe to say when a company like Google recreates e-mail, and the result is a superset of e-mail, it's probably going to be at least a step forward.
I just don't think people should dismiss it; I understand people not using it, which is a chicken and egg problem Google need to figure out and probably won't figure out, but don't dismiss it out of hand.
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Just like there are advantages to email over postal mail (speed, ability to easily send to multiple people, etc), there are advantages to Wave over email (the ability to see what the others are saying as they type, gadgets and robots that can be embedded into the Wave, etc).
People seem to be dismissing it before actually checking it out just because what they have seems good enough. That kind of thinking is not really good for technology.
The problem with this product is nobody beyond developers really knows what it is supposed to do?
Somehow I had the misconception that all API data went through Google. My mistake. Thank you for clarifying! :)
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