Google Wave

[blkmage]

How many of you have access to Google's new-fangled software-gadget? We should start a wave.

[Tsukuyomi]

I've heard about Google Wave on another site, buuuuut I'm not really sure what it is... ^______^;;

[shooraijin]

Wave seems to combine the worst parts of E-mail and IM, the way I see it. I see this one burning out like Jaiku.

[Tsukuyomi]

Wave seems to combine the worst parts of E-mail and IM, the way I see it. I see this one burning out like Jaiku.

Ah, I had a feeling it was something like that :-? That's what it sounded like at least :-?

The guy in the video made it sound so amazing and took so long to get to the actual.. thing O.O

[blkmage]

Right now, I feel like the biggest problem is that no one really knows what to do with it beyond doing what we already do with things that already exist.

[Tsukuyomi]

What else is there to do with it that we don't know about o.o?

[blkmage]

Well, a big part of it is presumably the extensibility, which we understandably won't see for a while. I don't really have any need to do anything beyond chatting on it either. It's like any other social networking medium, really. It's really easy to describe what it's all about on the surface, but it'll take a while before people understand it enough take advantage of the framework that the service provides.

[Tsukuyomi]

Dumb question is probably dumb, but is this google wave free 8D

[Davidizer13]

Yup, it's free, just like a lot of Google's other projects (Picasa, Earth, Docs, GMail). Currently, though, it's in an open-invitation-only beta, like how GMail was in its infancy, so you'll have to sign up if you're interested, which I'm not. I'll just stick to my Windows Live Messenger, where you can make mistakes and nobody will see them, thanks.

[SnoringFrog]

I've been trying to get an invite so I could try this out. I'm not really sure that there's much of a point for me too, but then again, I didn't think there was a point in getting a gmail either and now I can't leave. Even if this turns out to be a horrible flop, I'd like to at least try it out some.

[initialdfreak]

I am on it. Not a lot of people I know are though. Seems to be a rather cool experiment by Google. I really hopes it succeeds. It would be a good way for groups to get work done. But then again, people could also just work on actually working together better. In the non-technical, abstract computer sense. Remove the layers of technical complexity. Even if someone is using a computer to fix a problem (i.e. A Java Program) the best way to solve it (in my honest opinion) is to meet face to face and then go about fixing. I am extremely skeptical that any technological innovation will ever replace honest human interaction. I think thats just how things are meant to be.

[Straylight]

I think Wave exists so that Google can do something cool with the comet technology they developed for Gmail. The architecture of the thing is pretty interesting because it lets the web server push data to the client using javascript and http in real time. What that basically means is that when something gets updated on Wave you see the change immediately, instead of having something in the background checking the server at regular intervals, or worse making you click something to see more recent activity. Java and Flash apps do this already but Wave works without the need for any browser plugins.

The new HTML 5 standard includes a http socket which allows the server to push data to the client without the need for hacks (which is what Google have done), so live apps like Wave may eventually become common place in the future. I think it'll take a while though.