DISQUS

jezza · 2 months ago

Of course it's chaotic – you have one wave with everyone in it and the topic is "Testing Wave". That's like inviting everyone in the office to a meeting about "stuff". In real use, you could have normal email conversations like you do now, with the benefit that if you invite someone new to the conversation you don't have to forward all the previous mails.

As for live updates, it's up to you to decide if you are online, in IM mode, I'll answer that now, or offline, in email mode, flag that and deal with it later. Nothing new, apart from having to use several apps whose total extent of integration is cut and paste.

Email has been sick for a long long time, it's time to let it go.

pauljacobson · 2 months ago

You may be absolutely correct. Perhaps we need more time working with Wave to see how/if it can replace email completely. It will really need to be in widespread use or we'll see a disconnect between those who use Wave and those who don't and conversations could easily break down.

Darren Gorton · 2 months ago

Yeah, its taking me a while to get used to it, must admit.

I thought Mr Scoble's last point of his first post was most important: "DO TRY THE API if you are a developer. From what I’m seeing that’s where the real value in Google Wave will come, but we haven’t seen enough apps yet so end users won’t find much here to play with yet."

We can't judge it based on this interface that Google "slapped" together [I used the term loosely] and it'll be a while until we see the other apps, but when they start coming I think it will be highly exciting.

MacPress · 2 months ago

I think will stay on ichat and mail :)

abaranov · 2 months ago

Still waiting for a kind soul to send an invite my way...

*nudge nudge wink wink say no more*

Generally it seems that Wave has massive amounts of potential which is still to be realised.

pauljacobson · 2 months ago

Dude, if I had an invite, I'd send it to you.

John · 2 months ago

Wave is not really a replacement for email. It does somethings very well but clearly the focus is on collaboration.

If email were invented today, it would look more like TrulyMail. Here is a company which re-invented email. Sure they have few users but that will change with time.

We all know the problems with email: You don't know if/when your messages are delivered, too much spam, your messages are not really private, etc. TrulyMail solves these problems.

The only problem is that it is a complete replacement for email (it actually has nothing to do with email and uses its own servers). Their latest release includes integration with email to make the transition a bit easier for those of us who live in the real world.

Still, I'm looking forward to Wave going public. I hope they don't keep it in beta for seven years like gmail was.

pauljacobson · 2 months ago

I don't mind how long its in beta, as long as it becomes available.