Sam, thank you very much for your legnthy explanation of Google Wave. I think I begin to understand now and that it will bring together, or agrigate much of the social networking innovations that have spread in the last five yers or more. (Not that I feel, at my age, I can propperly grasp it all.)
Certainly GW Micro should be including this development as it takes a long breath over re-evaluating and re-doing browse mode and our access t web content. People should note how complex this really is given the details spelt out in the last post of Google Wave. Ray. (seems a pity not to leave Sam's post un-top posted, but here it is anyway. Sam bushman wrote: For all those who would like to know, It's an attempt by google gmail to update mail to the modern world. It's email like you already use and understand but, a new twist! Instead of different folders for your email think about labeling any messages and then being able to list / find them by the labels. You can give labels to threads senders from your contacts and more. In other words putting a database behind your email messages ... allowing you to search / organize them as you wish. that's google gmail now. Now for the new twist of google wave?Think of IM instant messaging and mail together. Now add facebook, twitter and more to the mix on the fly! If I am part of a group that you are sending a response message to ... I can see in real time that you are typing the message. I can tell if you are on line like an im client will do and I can employ the social networking tools face book, twitter and more on the fly. Meaning I can tweet the info from the message to my twitter feed / maybe even feed the info to an rss feed and more. We don't even know how powerful it will be yet because it's just getting started. As with google it's going to be a beta. We now live and run our software in constant betas. It's all in the cloud meaing computing over the internet and maybe even tie the google docs / spreadsheets and more in to the mix. Meaning I may be able to use any of my docs / sptreadsheets to be updated by teams of people ... the ideas are endless. I haven't even done the technology justice but, this may give you an idea. Last ... remember that the second ... it's available people are adding more uses for it. I like a certain radio show and am listening to the archive. You see that I am online. You follow my twitter feed and like to know what I am doing. What if I don't mind you know what I am doing so you click and start hearing the same radio archive I am listening to automatically. Then you tweet that you are doing this and others atart listening. Then if a doc in some ones google docs way down the line is a news article on what the radio show is about ... what if they tweet that to others or send a wave google mail about a news story / google doc that verifies the info to the complete group. Then we start to have a blog / comments on the radio show / article im discussion on the fly? What if then some one starts to archive the complete thread with radio, blog, im, email, wave, and other technologies on there facebook account? then they decide to take all the info and post it to a video on youtube? The technology will get smarter and smarter and have more and more automated tasks and interactions between computers and people. Then what if I want to perform a google search on the general topics that have ben discussed? Hope this helps. Sam If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
