I am now a proud participant in this whole "google wave" thing you've been hearing about. If you haven't been hearing about it, have a quick google and you'll find a wide range of opinions
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It's a new communications protocol / service that Google has launched. They're still in very early Beta so they're only making a lot of noise about it amongst developers, and not the general internet public.
It might be best thought of as an alternative to email, but the methodology means that wave lends itself to being used as an instant messaging tool, or for collaborative creation of documents, in a way that's much better than email.
Or at least, that's what Google would like everyone to believe. It might flounder and fail like laserdiscs, or it might take off and be the new internet standard in about 10 years.
And if that's still not clear, then i give up. I'm far too tired to write any more than that.
Well, you'll have some time to kill obviously. Bond's good but there's obviously *some* gap between the ransom-declaration and MI-6's favourite super-agent falling into your deadly trap.
ohuiginn at googlewave.com Hardly ever use it though -- was one of those who popped in, decided they couldn't be arsed with yet another way of wasting time online, and vanished. Do, though, have my eye on eventually getting some cash out of writing gizmos for it, so may be back some day.
[also have invites aplenty, if anybody wants them]
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It might be best thought of as an alternative to email, but the methodology means that wave lends itself to being used as an instant messaging tool, or for collaborative creation of documents, in a way that's much better than email.
Or at least, that's what Google would like everyone to believe. It might flounder and fail like laserdiscs, or it might take off and be the new internet standard in about 10 years.
And if that's still not clear, then i give up. I'm far too tired to write any more than that.
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Hardly ever use it though -- was one of those who popped in, decided they couldn't be arsed with yet another way of wasting time online, and vanished. Do, though, have my eye on eventually getting some cash out of writing gizmos for it, so may be back some day.
[also have invites aplenty, if anybody wants them]
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