   Google Wave?
">Google Wave PreviewThis seems to turn communication, email, and IMs on their head. A friend of mine showed this to me and I thought it was pretty impressive. I don't how fast it will take off but the potential for it seems enormous. Real time email, chat, translated communication, file sharing, and some other stuff I forget about.I wonder when Google is going to come out with a real desktop app/OS...edit: all of the above are done from one app. also skip over to 7:29 that where the real presentation begins.[Edited by - Alpha_ProgDes on June 1, 2009 2:14:50 PM]
  I didnt watch it because I watched the first few minutes and nothing was really sad, and I cant sit and watch it.  Maybe later.With that being said...  isn't everything you mentioned already here?  Translated communication is the only thing I dont know of thats built into an IM service, so maybe, but you can use other translation services.Real time chat.. check, real time e-mail.. check (well, it seems pretty quick to me, but also, what would be the difference between chat/email in this context), and file sharing.. check.Maybe there's more to it, maybe itll be presented better and more convenient.. no clue.;  I read a blog post instead of watching the video, but I just don't see what's so special about it. Is it that they integrate the communication tools you mentioned? Is it faster? Already, I can IM and email people from gmail. And if I want to collaborate on documents, I can use google docs.What am I missing?EDIT: Just to note, I've been using Chrome since its release, and I never thought I'd try a another browser.   ;  I think the major parts of this are really the communication protocols and the open-sourcing of much of their code. Anyone with the time and inclination will be able to host their own wave server giving this the possibility of becoming as ubiquitous as e-mail over time, especially if it is very easy to 'switch' to e-mail based communication. The difference really IS that you can do all of this from one web-based application that won't need to be hosted on Google.Until I use it myself I can't say how great it will be, but it has a lot of potential for good things. Of course I know how hard it is to switch to new things for many people when existing stuff is often good enough so I'm not going to wave my arms around screaming how this will change the world. Google HAS to sound excited about this and I'm sure the engineers think it has a lot of potential to be very awesome so I can't fault them for being proud of it.   ;  Just got done watching it. Looks very promising. I love the real-time interaction of it. Really seamless networking just how it should be. :)   ;Quote:Original post by anothrguitaristI read a blog post instead of watching the video, but I just don't see what's so special about it. Is it that they integrate the communication tools you mentioned? Is it faster? Already, I can IM and email people from gmail. And if I want to collaborate on documents, I can use google docs.What am I missing?Watch the video from the 8th minute.Basically, it's sorta like MSN messenger and its offline messages so far.When the other person is away/offline, it acts like emails. When he's online, you both can type at the same time and see each other's text while the other person's still typing.It's even more "real-time" than IM in that sense, since IMs usually only transmit stuff when you press enter. Here, it's as soon as you type any key.It's all one system, of course.Edit: Sharing images with your conversation members is as easy as dragging and dropping them in the convo.Edit 2: Publishing a convo to a blog is as simple as adding "Bloggy" to the convo participants. Someone replying to that blog will appear in Wave too.;  A great idea and definitely the future. I particularly liked the replay feature, and also just the simplicity of using so many different presentation types through the same communication medium.My concern though is the classic chicken-and-egg problem. People aren't going to start using it if others aren't already using it, so either Wave gets lucky and people adopt it quickly like twitter, or it's going to have to be backwards compatible AT LEAST with existing emails if not IM/wiki/blog/etc for it to take off soon after launch.   ;Quote:Original post by shurcool[...] When he's online, you both can type at the same time and see each other's text while the other person's still typing.It's even more "real-time" than IM in that sense, since IMs usually only transmit stuff when you press enter. Here, it's as soon as you type any key."...and this was difficult to do."So difficult to do and so innovative that none of the other instant messengers have it.  Not even ICQ in 1996.  OH WAIT...I've only skimmed the video, but I'm not impressed.  I don't need a SIXTH messenger, and I never liked the in-browser-application approach.  I'm sure I'll give it a whirl when it comes out, but my breath is not bated.   ;Quote:Original post by brainscrapeI don't need a SIXTH messengerBut would you be interested in a single application that can handle IM, email, your documents, blogging, twitter, social networking, games, file sharing, and do it all better and faster with an enhanced feature set and more extensibility than any one of those things combined without all the bloated legacy bullshit? And have it open sourced to the biggest, most eager, and most competent community in existence?I would!If you hate having six messengers than you should be extra supportive of Wave because its the only product from the only company in the world that has the potential to reduce the need for fifty different poorly designed and mutually exclusive communication apps. Even if everyone's service just rebrands Wave, it's still the same framework and would all be compatible, and it would still look a hell of a lot better than everything that's out there now.   ;Quote:Original post by shurcoolWhen the other person is away/offline, it acts like emails. When he's online, you both can type at the same time and see each other's text while the other person's still typing.It's even more "real-time" than IM in that sense, since IMs usually only transmit stuff when you press enter. Here, it's as soon as you type any key.So its kinda like Warcraft 2's lobby chat system (Im talking the 1995 version, the one you connected via calling the person basically)?  I thought they didn't do it that way because that is TERRIBLE.  I make lots of typos and I like IM because I can easily press delete a few times.  Or I am explaining something somewhat complicated and realize I should reword it.  To be honest, that feature seems like a step backward =(With that being said, if there's a feature to disable it, great.  Also, if it DOES put everything in one application, ok, that's sort of nice.  I don't know if I'd use it right away, unless it worked with AIM/MSN/Skype/my normal e-mail, which I'm sure it will or will eventually.Edit: Quote:Edit: Sharing images with your conversation members is as easy as dragging and dropping them in the convo.Edit 2: Publishing a convo to a blog is as simple as adding "Bloggy" to the convo participants. Someone replying to that blog will appear in Wave too.1) I can do that with AIM.  I dont think MSN lets you send multiple files through convos, but that seems pretty simple to do if you can send it to one person.2) I guess that's sort of cool?  I never understood blogs that much, they seem like fluffed articles.  Since I dont really do the blog thing, I cant really comment on how useful that is, but it seems barely.  I cant imagine a blog with a few comments will have someone comment during a conversation about said blog, more importantly, why it would need to appear in the convo right away, as if a complete stranger who just chime into a conversation and expect to be taken seriously.   