inb4 usual esr whine.

goddammit :y

I want a conversation coach robot. That would be hella cool.

That's also a ice cream machine :>

do you want tits on it as well ?

gief tits too

icecream from tits tbfh

Would be great in a business environment, but I barely email as it is. All my messages are through third party sites like Facebook or something.

That's why I'm not that excited about it. BUT, it is extremely interesting and is 100x better than regular email.

you just made me google google wave. i hate you.

Someone invite me!

Doesn't work that way.

she's pretty, why not? :>

Because private people doesn't get invites to hand out. Google handed out the first 100 000 invites themselves.

ah ok, well when they start giving them out to the common folk let me know!! =)

same need an invite :(

See comment #10 above.

Link? Do you honestly expect me to look for this myself? I mean I know technically typing all this out is far more work than googling for it but on the other hand: fuck you.

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Someone please sum up what this wonder product does. I don't feel like watching the 1:20 hour long presentation on youtube.

Everything you have ever dreamt for.

and then some more

You in red tight boxers across my kitchen table?

its a mashup of all email and im clients you've ever known with a user interface ez enough to be made by apple.

it does email, chat, and also the live-chat like ICQ used to be able to do, where you see each letter get put down live.

also it kind of records a replay of the conversation and if you want to forward it to someone new, he can recap the course of the conversation by skimming through the 'replay'

it uses its own im network?

how else could they filter out all your personal information and deliver matching ads?

if this thing gets popular tho,and is safe enough, its obviously the way to go(in the future). for both personal and business related things.

can't see it working as a business solution in my company (too many old guys) :P

its a protocol. sure the "public" wave servers will be ad driven. but the wave protocol itself isn't

Its an all encompassing communication tool. Which combines Email, Instant messaging and recorded collaborative text editing into one method. Then there's also extensions and ro-bots.

Robots, just like extensions, provide a vast of amount of extra functionality. Robots are workers which do background stuff and show you in foreground through the 'wave'. For example they can change every stock symbol into a real time quote or will try to answer questions as customer support agent. Extensions are more visual, they change the appearance or feel of a 'wave', for example, you would use an extension to insert a vote, interactive map or even a game right into the 'wave'. As you can imagine, there's not a lot you can't do with both Robots and Extensions at hand.

There wasn't Twitter support, but somebody created a Twitter robot, so now there is. There wasn't webcam chat, so someone created an extension for that and now there is.

Some features I like:
- UI is simple, clean and adjustable.
- Wiki style. Anyone in the wave can edit anything, even others comments, in any order they like. Obviously playback makes sense of this freedom.
- Playback. So you can play the email or 'wave' like a movie, but step by step.
-Organization of comments. Think something like ESR comment system, except way more advanced.
-Real time chat, you see people type as they type, this is optional, but is fun and saves time.
-Intuitive and well presented attachments, drag and drop anything into the email. A preview shows for everyone, place it wherever you like, have it automatically upload for anyone to view or download in full.
-Embed. Embed your wave into a website or blog, your visitors can watch as you optionally update in real time without even leaving the command center that is Google Wave.
-Open source, lots of new stuff and exciting stuff will be popping up for it.


I love it, its like a common tool from 10 years in the future. Such a great asset for my Business and could well replace email. Could take years though! its a big change and is way more complicated than what people are use too. If it wasn't for such a big name like Google supporting and improving it, it would remain the Quake 3 of software. Regarded as the best by some, but would struggle to go mainstream.

can you get me an invite? :o

https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignup/

to request an acces

Got it, but it's not really useful as it is. Maybe it will get better with some more extensions....

I'll try using it for work related stuff to see how it fares.