Google Wave

[IndieBoy]

http://wave.google.com/

What you guys think?

I don't know what else to say. I think this is amazing and could change the whole internet. I'm actually really excited to see what this is going to turn into, 'cause I can think of some awesome ideas, but I'm sure the web geniuses will come up with even better ideas.

[Buckethead]

oh geez. 1:20 ? I'll watch it later.

[Darth Mandarb]

When I heard "Google Wave - a new communication tool" I said, "hmmm, wave, firefly, communication... I wonder??"  Then I watched the video and within 15 minutes they used the expression "shiny" and then when they experience a crash it says "Ahhh ... curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"  The entire thing is a big Firefly reference and for that alone I'll use it!

That being said...

I watched the entire video (the other day) and I have to say I agree.  This really could totally revolutionize not only "email" but the web in general.  I think if there's one company/entity that has the clout to pull something like this off, it's Google.  I don't see it happening over night, but I'm on board and can't wait to see where this goes!

[Anian]

I haven't yet watched the entire thing, but:
- so far the revolutionary "thing" is that they combined everything that already existed (mail, pms, forum and instant messaging, facebook)
- I'm not exactly sure how this will work when a few hundred milions of people (not to metnion if some spiders come in there and start posting at random) connect to it - just think 50 blogs being updated at the same time while the same server has pics, e-mails, entire conversation pasts, entire chess games, that's really a lot of code and general files (pics, video, maps etc.)
- and what the hell -  "now I see this on my pc" and then clapping, uuu I see something that you have on your pc on my pc...clap away. I know I'm simplifying but still, you have to admit it's bit silly.  
- the colaboration thing is the only good/useful thing so far, well unless people that work together go to their actual job place and meet there
- that spell checker might get annoying, especially for nonenglish conversations
- might have a good oportunity for user created "gadgets", I like that translation add-on at the end

[Stupot]

I watched this the other day.
It's pretty damn impressive.
I can't wait to give it a bash.

[Peder 🚀]

I like it!
Will definatly use it and integrate my future projects into it!

[Akatosh]

Meh. I didn't get to watch the video yet (curse you, crappy university PCs!), but from the descriptions on that website, it sounds like a super-glorified crossover of blog and the ICQ chat client. Sort of neat, I suppose, if they can get it working properly. I don't think I'll be needing and/or using it, though.

(Plus...  if you really use it as your only "internet communication tool", there's quite a lot of data about you there... and a (black) market for personal information isn't unheard of, just as quite a few people good with circumventing security measures and data mining... clustering that much of your personal data together just sort of strikes me as making things unneccesarily easy for these guys. Then again, it's probably just paranoia, or sor of phobia of all things Google, and the biggest threat from that thing is better focused advertising.)

[Oliwerko]

A perfect example of the fact, that the only important thing is not hyper-advanced code and looks, but ideas of functionality.
I definitely like it, mainly because you don't have to have hundreds of accounts in different networks. I don't know how well it turns out when released though, I don't know if I will even use it. But hey, it's one very powerful idea.

[Mr Flibble]

Not being willing to decipher the corporate-speak of the Wikipedia page, nor having the endurance to watch the video, can some kindly person summarise why we should be excited about a social networking site from Google?

[monkey0506]

Think of Google Talk combined with Google Documents combined with MySpace/FaceBook combined with Blogger combined with Wikipedia combined with a web forum and you're starting to get the idea. Each sub-section of the Wave isn't in and of itself an incredible, awe-inspiring, original idea. However, watching the video I think it's definitely a very interesting concept which properly implemented could genuinely revolutionize the way we use the web.

I'm not saying it's the most awesomest thing ever created ever, but I do find it very interesting and, hey, I'd use it.

[Oliwerko]

You forgot the very important real-time-typing IM feature 

[Mr Flibble]

I fail to become excited because all of those things already exist and I don't really use any of them (apart from forums and IM). To me they already were in one place, the Internet. Having them linked on one site doesn't really seem useful. Still, to someone who actually uses any of those things, maybe they'll find it convenient to only need one tab open.

[Stee]

oh geez. 1:20 ? I'll watch it later.

I watched 30mins. It covered enough for me. I got bored after that.

It's a bit gimmicky, more than its useful. Yeah it makes some things a lot simpler, but it makes other things much more complicated. For example when your drunk and typing messages to people, and don't realise its going to them in "real time". Theres a reason theres a send button on msn, just like theres a reason for the "post" and "preview" buttons on this forum.

[Ryan Timothy B]

Theres a reason theres a send button on msn, just like theres a reason for the "post" and "preview" buttons on this forum.

But there is also a button to prevent the real-time typing.


Anyway, I think this will destroy Facebook completely (just as long as the friends search is similar to Facebook. I can only imagine it is).

[Oliwerko]

That makes me think.....what Facebook will come up with to save itself?

[Stee]

It will close, sell all those photo's you uploaded, to advertising companies, like it planned to do originally, and live off the profits happily ever after.

[Ishmael]

No, Facebook will get a wave API and get plugged in to the whole thing. Thus allowing people on Facebook to communicate with all the people on Wave, thus enabling them to communicate with all the people on about anything else plugged into Wave. What will Facebook lose? I don't know. But it might stop losing users on the grounds of people going where their friends are for example, even if that's a marginal group. Seems to me that the point is you don't need to move to Wave, you can just connect your current stuff to it. Sounds good enough.

Indeed, if this thing turns out what it's promised to be and picks up proper I suppose it'll more or less revolutionise communication. I know for one I'd love to have all my contacts in one place in a manageable form instead of having to use a half a dozen applications and visit a dozen pages just get a heads up on what the few people I'm interested in are doing. Ofcource too much at one place is too much, so there's always the chance the whole thing getting too crowded. But I have a feeling they'll work around that in a way or another.

[Mr Jake]

I think part of the point is they want people like facebook to take their APIs/Protocols and use them to develop their system further, so this is likely what will happen.

[m0ds]

Looks like balls to me. Merging things into one isn't new, big or innovative.

In fact it's getting progressively boring for me.

I read the Wiki, and watched some of the video, but the yawn factor got to me real quick.

If the fact "forum threads" become "real time chat" is their major selling point...then.......gaaay!

[InCreator]

I liked it at first. e-mail/im/forum. Cool?

Then i thought about how would this make a revolution in the glorious art of spam.
I don't like it so much anymore.