Initial Thoughts and Questions about Wave

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Permalink Reply by Bruce Wagner on June 2, 2009 at 11:00am

Ubiquity looks nice.... But does not seem to be REVOLUTIONARY.

Google Wave is REVOLUTIONARY. It seems to change EVERYTHING.... about Communication... and Collaboration...

Ubiquity adds cool mash-up tools to..... Old Fashioned Email.

Google Wave COMPLETELY REPLACES..... Old Fashioned Email.

It also replaces..... IM, Text Messaging, Online Forums, Blogs, Video Conferencing, etc., etc., etc...

No?

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Permalink Reply by Anita on June 2, 2009 at 12:12pm

Thanks Bruce, making that distinction (between merely enhancing as opposed to replacing) does clear it up for me.

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Permalink Reply by Bruce Wagner on June 2, 2009 at 11:38am

You asked a few other questions.... Which I really do not know the answers to.... But I'm willing to give you my best guesses.... Perhaps someone else will come along and correct me if I'm wrong...

:)

What kind of storage overhead will there be say in comparison to current communication tools eg AIM + email?

Because storage is becoming so so so very cheap... Even Gmail gives every free account 7GB of free storage... I think this will become a non-issue... and fast.

How efficient will searching be?

Did you watch the demo? It took less than 1 second to update live search results in real time....

What sort of housekeeping options will be available?

Let's hope that "housekeeping" - as far as the server side stuff is concerned - is modern, automated, and self-maintaining. As for the user side of things.... Perhaps you mean to ask, "What sort of tools will become available for organizing your 'In Box'...?"

They demonstrated some tools already... Like automatically linking waves inside of other waves... In effect, organizing yours waves.... WITHIN a wave....

However, since this project is Open Source... I have complete confidence that all the developers in the world will be racking their collective brains to come up with newer and better ways to keep you, and your waves, organized.

What would YOU like to see.... in the way of keeping your Waves (i.e. threads of communication / document creation / discussion / etc) organized..... in a way to make you more productive...?

Finally, I am hoping that someone will find a way to exploit the Wave protocol for use with voice recognition software and also text-to-speech.

Oh, you can be sure that some developers somewhere are working on these things already!

I can see a plug-in for Oovoo and Skype coming along VERY VERY VERY soon....

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Permalink Reply by Tom Beek on June 2, 2009 at 11:47pm

> text-to-speech
Yeah, hopefully soon.

And even cooler will be speech-to-text. Given that the entire Internet is the language model, and the awesomeness of technologies like the spelling robot, Spelly, it should be attainable in our lifetimes.

-Tom

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