By Dean
(2009-11-13 17:59:58)
I've been using Google Wave for about a week now, thanks to an invite from everyone's favourite Linux monster qedi (who still hasn't updated his website to work properly in Chrome, by the way). From this week of use I have come to my conclusion about Wave: it's weird.
Wave is designed to be a replacement for a lot of communication technologies: e-mail, chat, forums, wikis and blogs. To that end, Google has come up with its own protocols and whatnot to deliver the basis for other companies and nerds to create their own Wave-based applications and websites. But Google hasn't released this yet, and what we're given (for now), is a web application that demonstrates all of the different functions that other apps can take advantage of later.
So we're given a web application, which itself almost resembles an e-mail client, with a list of saved searches (which are effectively directories), a list of contacts, a listing of active "waves" (the Google Wave word for "thread") and a big area to actually view the waves. The listing of waves is a lot like an inbox in an e-mail client, and indeed one of the views is called an inbox. When waves are created, the creator can attach participants to the wave. Those participants will see that wave appear in their inboxes, very much like e-mail.
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