You know my rants about the future of email not being about sending discrete messages back and forth between individuals, and being able to communicate with one or more people in a specific area hosted in one spot? That seems to be exactly what Google Wave is about:
"Google Wave is an online communication and collaboration tool that makes real-time interactions more seamless -- in one place, you can communicate and collaborate using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. A wave is a conversation with multiple participants -- participants are people added to a wave to discuss and collaborate on its content. Participants can reply any time and anywhere within a wave, and they can edit content and add more participants as a wave develops. It's also possible to rewind waves with the playback functionality, to see what happened, and when."
So everyone accesses the same communication area on Google, rather than sending messages around to each other's mail servers. If you're included in a particular "wave", you have the right to contribute content of various types, and it can be real time or asynchronous communication.
It sounds totally cool, and I'm dying to see how it might work. As you can imagine. :-)
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Date: 2009-10-25 06:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-10-25 07:27 am (UTC)You know my rants about the future of email not being about sending discrete messages back and forth between individuals, and being able to communicate with one or more people in a specific area hosted in one spot? That seems to be exactly what Google Wave is about:
"Google Wave is an online communication and collaboration tool that makes real-time interactions more seamless -- in one place, you can communicate and collaborate using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. A wave is a conversation with multiple participants -- participants are people added to a wave to discuss and collaborate on its content. Participants can reply any time and anywhere within a wave, and they can edit content and add more participants as a wave develops. It's also possible to rewind waves with the playback functionality, to see what happened, and when."
So everyone accesses the same communication area on Google, rather than sending messages around to each other's mail servers. If you're included in a particular "wave", you have the right to contribute content of various types, and it can be real time or asynchronous communication.
It sounds totally cool, and I'm dying to see how it might work. As you can imagine. :-)
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Date: 2009-10-25 08:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-10-25 08:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-10-25 08:04 am (UTC)