4 ms·

Unfortunately the article like so many others misses the point on Google Wave. It really shows how much people can be distracted by visuals. Google announces a

Unfortunately the article like so many others misses the point on Google Wave. It really shows how much people can be distracted by visuals. Google announces a entirely new protocol for internet communication (not just for the web) and people are complaining about UI complexity? And it's not entirely their fault, Google really, really hyped the UI. Google Wave is potentially a new real-time (in the interactive sense) protocol for the web, one that easily supports many different languages (robots talk to waves across a protocol). And by open sourcing the server we have a new scalable distributed ecosystem for user generated content. Extensions (built on robots) are parasitic, this opens up incredible interactive possibilities. From the keynote it is clear that you will be able talk to a Wave server as easily from Vim or Emacs as it is from Google's fancy HTML 5 UI.

moe 17y ago
Well, when you look at the google video then Lars says very early on what this is all about: To supersede E-Mail. The prototype client is just that - a prototype client. Without having seen the product I'm very eagerly looking forward to what comes out of this. In fact, from the presentation it seems they aim even higher, in good, old google fashion. Not only do they want to replace SMTP, but also all proprietary instant messaging protocols, Facebook and twitter - in one fellow swoop. I say if there is a company to pull this off then it is google. All of this is way overdue and they seem to be on a good track; being XMMP based and, most importantly, open. To put it bluntly: This could be the end of Spam. The end of E-Mail. The end of multi-protocol IM-clients. The end of icq, msn, aim, qq, yim, jabber, skype(?). The end of Facebook, myspace, twitter, maybe even flickr. The end of all the half-baked wiki implementations we have today. I like it.

moe 17y ago

Well, when you look at the google video then Lars says very early on what this is all about: To supersede E-Mail. The prototype client is just that - a prototype client. Without having seen the product I'm very eagerly looking forward to what comes out of this. In fact, from the presentation it seems they aim even higher, in good, old google fashion. Not only do they want to replace SMTP, but also all proprietary instant messaging protocols, Facebook and twitter - in one fellow swoop. I say if there is a company to pull this off then it is google. All of this is way overdue and they seem to be on a good track; being XMMP based and, most importantly, open. To put it bluntly: This could be the end of Spam. The end of E-Mail. The end of multi-protocol IM-clients. The end of icq, msn, aim, qq, yim, jabber, skype(?). The end of Facebook, myspace, twitter, maybe even flickr. The end of all the half-baked wiki implementations we have today. I like it.