Comments on: What Has Google Wave Done to Us?

By: Alexander Ewering

Alexander Ewering — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:02:54 +0000

I’ve also begged for an invite, and I had already been in contact with Google earlier (Google Summer of Code mentoring), so, I had expected sort of a positive reply. Nothing yet though :-(

Oh well, who knows how they choose their testers – and I’ve developed Wave-like (albeit not exactly that complex) systems myself, so that wouldn’t be too bad a choice for a beta tester ;)

By: Chris Owen

Chris Owen — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:52:46 +0000

Anything that nearly kills email (and stops our teams wasting time) yet still communicates and retains a log of the project…
..will take over the world.
I want it.
I wanted yesterday.
I wanted it 15 years ago.

By: Jorge Escobar

Jorge Escobar — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:02:49 +0000

Thanks Megan. I feel like the crying baby without the invite :)

Seriously, though, I agree with what you, Andres and Todd say, E-mail has had its run, and Google Wave *might* be the first right step towards improving communications in the 21st century.

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:58:15 +0000

There’s a lot of hype, yes. But email must, no, *WILL* die.

Anything that hastens the death of E-FAIL, be it hype or not, I wholeheartedly support.

Reminder: Every time an IT department delete its install of Outlook ( usurped by Wave ), an angel gets its wings.

By: Megan Donovan

Megan Donovan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:58:07 +0000

Jorge,
I like the crying baby picture. It let me smile, although I’m not one of the chosen ones, but I think it’s time for a change how we can communicate and it will take a big company like Google or Microsoft to get it out to millions of users. It will be interesting to see how people accept it and whether they replace their old habits.