Google Wave

Phil. · World Chat Champion Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

Looks quite useful, especially for work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ&feature=channel_page

DEN MONKEY · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 May 2005 Karma :

cool find that one. Very interesting.

I won't pretend to understand it all but from an end user perspective it looks super functional with lots of scope for for all manner of applications.

Be interesting to see how it's applied and if it's picked up as a direct replacement of email.

If all these waves sit on a server for example a work server, there must be a way to delete old waves rather than saving them there forever.
So I'm curious if there are multiple people interacting via a wave and all but one wishes to delete it does it stay on the server or can it be saved locally ?
I guess at the end of the day it would simply be one wave as opposed to several versions being held under each email address.

Anyway....interesting. I watched the whole lot of it. Thumbs Up

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Albion · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Karma :

If these waves are stored on servers, does that mean that someone could potentially see what was said in your conversation?
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MattHirst · World Chat Champion Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Karma :

I got bored waiting for the guy to finish talking at the beginning. I did fast foward a bit but obviously i had missed the intitial explanation.

Anyone care to briefly explain what Google Wave is?
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aaronb74 · Crazy Courier Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Karma :

I'm at work and can't access YouTube, though it sounds intriguing. I shall have a look when I get home and comment when I have thoroughly reviewed the material.

(replying now just means I can find it easier in "Recent Posts" Wink

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map · Mr Calendar Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Karma :

Fnatic · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 May 2008 Karma :

It sounds like a forum?

el_oso · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 May 2008 Karma :

sounds like they have just merged forums, mail, IM, Blogs all into one. which is what they set out to do.
personally i think its a good idea. saves you have a hotmail account, and a myspace account and windows messenger

Tarmacsurfer · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Karma :

Sat through 45 minutes of the presentation so far and personally I'm not convinced it does anything new enough to merit giving the company the keys to my daily interactions.

The way Google manages to cloak it's data harvesting in a warm and fuzzy veneer of "we're doing it for the users" is actually starting to terrify me. It's like Apple, just a much more subtle price tag.
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colin1 · Captain Safety Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Karma :

sounds like a cross between a forum thread and instant messaging to me
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GodzGift · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 May 2006 Karma :

sounds like balls to me,
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tofu-wtf · Nova Slayer Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Karma :