"Google Wave"

Impressive

http://wave.google.com/

In summary?

I saw abit of this Its a email/IM/photosharing/twitter thing with the ability to do private group messaging

open source and it has an API for third party applications

Thats what I got from the first 20min I watched earlier

Looks pretty cool.

hello everyone welcome to our cult.

I'm alittle concerned at security though it seems as though the "Waves" are centrally hosted

Saw someone on Twitter talking about invites for wave, anyone have any?

So it's MSN?

No, there is a long video of it on youTube. Google it and you will find.

i've changed my ming. that's cool as hell.

I'm looking forward to it. I wonder if it will take off though. Needs to run off of Googles servers if I understand things correctly.

I agree with this guy even though he works for MS. What he is saying makes sense.

Still... Wave is jusr what I've been looking for several times.

I like the document collaboration thing for work purposes. I would just need to work for a company that would agree to that almighty shift away form vanilla email.

coastal wrote:
i've changed my ming. that's cool as hell.

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Flightrisker wrote:

coastal wrote:
i've changed my ming. that's cool as hell.

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I think he meant to say "Minge"

Not just on Google servers, you can install it on company server and have your own implementation of it that will still interact with others. You can even tap into it and create your own front end, either through a template mechanism or by coding your own. That video shows a terminal interface that works, V cool. It is a massively long vid but I would recommend watching it all.

@Flightrisker: He had ming the merciless, now he has ming the cool as hell ;)

ScoutTech wrote:
Not just on Google servers, you can install it on company server and have your own implementation of it that will still interact with others. You can even tap into it and create your own front end, either through a template mechanism or by coding your own. That video shows a terminal interface that works, V cool. It is a massively long vid but I would recommend watching it all.

@Flightrisker: He had ming the merciless, now he has ming the cool as hell ;)

I think its around 1hr 7mins that they cover the bit about running on different servers.

I'm no programmer but I watched the whole video and I'm left feeling rather inspired.

Fizzog wrote:

Flightrisker wrote:

coastal wrote:
i've changed my ming. that's cool as hell.

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I think he meant to say "Minge"

lol

Beta testing starts today...
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Wake me up when it includes VOIP.

This looks utterly phenomenal!

And, er, it goes without saying that if anybody gets an invite that they'd like to pass on to someone who'd chew their arms off to get one (i.e. me) then I'll happily touch you on the bottom, or whatever your vice is.

Dirtbox wrote:
Wake me up when it includes VOIP.

What would be the benefit of that? I mean I understand the benefit of IM, and being able to see what a person is tying as they do it, but VOIP? I don't get it.

I too would love an invite you lovely lovely people :P

Its not supposed to be a replacement for voice communications. Its how vanilla e-mail would look if developed today...i.e. its for text/visual communications, not RT voice.

Btw, I too would love an invite if any of you good people had any ;) :)

Dirtbox wrote:
Wake me up when it includes VOIP.

It doesn't? Isn't that strange since gMail does? Was that even a question?

Does anybody have access then? Or any spare invites? :D

Invite me you dickhea....I mean lovely chaps. :)

If someone here had gotten an invite and was able to invite 5 people. What would the point be of giving out invites to fellow EG-ers?
Using Wave only makes sense if some of the people you are in communication with regularly also use it, so that's your friends, family, ... people you know.
Not people you post on a internet forum with.

BinaryBob101 wrote:

Dirtbox wrote:
Wake me up when it includes VOIP.

What would be the benefit of that? I mean I understand the benefit of IM, and being able to see what a person is tying as they do it, but VOIP? I don't get it.

What's the benefit of including IM into email?

Until there's a convergence of internet communication tech, all these baby steps are pointless and this might be the most useless to date.

And you don't have to "get it", everyone's net use is different. I use things like skype a lot because I'm away from loved ones and my clients more than I like to be and phoning between the UK, US and Japan is expensive. Not everyone is chained to a 10 mile radius.

I want convergence, not yet another piece of useless shit.

Edited by Dirtbox at 19:11:55 01-10-2009