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I think that it's a great move. GMAIL has 150MM users a month, you can bootstrap anything with that userbase. and Wave?

• joezydeco 17y ago
  Is Buzz built with Wave? Can't find a mention anywhere, but it sure looks like Wave.
  • mbrubeck 17y ago
    In response to a question at the press conference, they said the UI was "inspired by Wave." (Similarly, they said that it was not connected to Google Latitude now, but "over the next year" they hope to bring them closer together.)
• yungchin 17y ago
  That's what I never got about Wave - that they didn't somehow integrate it with Gmail, not even loosely. After I got a Wave account I invited a couple of friends, and they checked it out - signing in once, and forgetting about the whole service after that. So I tried including them in a few "waves", but there was no option to get email notifications of new waves! Of course they never returned, and the next time 'round I'd just email them again...
  • roc 17y ago
    I've been thinking that they should initially roll WAVE out as plumbing. They could transplant GMail/Buzz/Google Talk/etc to run on Wave without forcing people to learn the interface up-front. Users would be building up content 'in' Wave and Google would be slowly integrating the features that Wave makes easy. Then the Wave interface (the biggest stumbling block for most) can be introduced as an optional power-user interface; but wholly compatible in case people want to bounce back and forth as they ease in and backward-compatible with people who aren't ready to take the plunge. (fully backward compatible, in the case of other GMail users) I just don't think Wave is there yet.
    • drats 17y ago
      I presume that integration will be what they are aiming at with their operating system.
• levesque 17y ago
  Wave is still choppy for me.