thefonz on 3/10/2009 at 07:13
Has anyone managed to snag an invite to this or tried it out?
I'm very curious especially as it promises to rid us of the antiquated emailing system.
(
http://wave.google.com/) http://wave.google.com/
mol on 3/10/2009 at 13:00
Nope, but I'll gladly take one, please! Also promise to invite fellow ttlg'ers if I get one.
henke on 3/10/2009 at 14:25
So could someone sum up in 10 words or less what it is? I'm too lazy to watch a one hour twenty minute video or read any articles about it. In fact, come to think of it, I am very lazy so make that five words.
Queue on 3/10/2009 at 14:26
email is antiquated?
*looking over my stamp collection*
But you made one whiz-bang of a request and statement, henke. I couldn't even bring myself to click the link. I'm too antiquated. :thumb:
demagogue on 3/10/2009 at 16:01
Quote Posted by henke
So could someone sum up in 10 words or less what it is? I'm too lazy to watch a one hour twenty minute video or read any articles about it. In fact, come to think of it, I am
very lazy so make that five words.
The short version:
It handles email-threads on a web-site like forum threads, with threads ("waves") and posts ("blips") viewable by participants, except you can reply to someone else's post mid-paragraph inside their post (so you don't mess with "quoting"), with an inset labeled post (or just think of it as free-form; you can post anywhere). Then it adds a lot of bells and whistles.
The bells and whistles:
You see someone posting in real time (like instant msging), you can edit any post like a wiki (for collaborative realtime editing), there's a timeline-slider so you can watch the discussion evolve from the first post and every reply and edit made afterwards, the search and filter functionality is really good to organize in-wave and among many waves; if you drag a wave into another one it makes a link so waves can be internally-linked like a wiki, or highlight a paragraph and click "new wave" to branch that part, it's got an open protocol like email so any organization can set their own system up on any website and read/write to any other system's waves, it allows user-extensions like Firefox and they showed a lot of extensions which were very cool like instant translation among 40 languages, the spell check was very good, the handling of which posts get seen by which people is very good, also "robots" can get added as participants to do things with the wave, e.g., link it to some outside site, e.g., it pubishes it in realtime to a public blog, forum, bug-tracker, twitter, etc, or performs some operation on it. There was a lot of other stuff too.
Queue on 3/10/2009 at 16:14
Pretty soon we won't even need people to email.
...or little things like true human interaction.
Koki on 3/10/2009 at 17:05
Quote Posted by thefonz
I'm very curious especially as it promises to rid us of the antiquated emailing system.
todo: develop a third arm to be able to perform triple facepalms
henke on 3/10/2009 at 17:28
Good write-up demagogue! :)
heywood on 3/10/2009 at 17:58
Sounds like Lotus Notes on steroids.
