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"A wavelet is a part of a wave which can be best compared to a e-mail in a e-mail thread or a message is a discussion forum." Isn’t this wrong? As far as I und

"A wavelet is a part of a wave which can be best compared to a e-mail in a e-mail thread or a message is a discussion forum." Isn’t this wrong? As far as I understand, a wavelet should be compared to an e-mail thread and a blip to an individual e-mail message. And this comparison just makes sense in the context of a messaging widget serving the same purpose e-mail serves today. I would be eager to discuss possible outcomes of this new technology. Exciting times are coming, and more than never it’s unbelievable open to everyone to participate in the shaping of the future. Web 2.0 is becoming a commodity. Three questions to discuss: - What will be the distribution and evolution of gadgets? Will we converge to winner takes all monopolies in each of the functionality spaces? This depends a lot on gadget inter-operability, how will one be able to move a wavelet from wave to wave. Will there emerge wavelet standards? This way gadget (and robot) developers can extend each other efforts opening up competition. - How will online identity change? There are already a lot of privacy issues on debate, I think most of those are non-issues raised by the demoed gadgets. People are aware of those and most of the things raised by now will be just solved with some preference settings. Of primary interest to me will be how will these robots extend and manage our online identity? Big issue. - Enterprise applications and google stake, if everything is open (as it seems right now) what will be Google’s interest on it? I might be being naive here, but I can’t see clearly how will google monetize the huge enterprise market for this. Wave provider hosting?

cpr 17y ago
No, I think he's got it right. A blip is just a distinct (per-user) document that lives in a wavelet (the wavelet can have a distinct membership from any other wavelet in the wave). So the wavelet functions as an "email" (which can have sub-emails with different contributors) in the wave "email thread".
extension 17y ago
"Enterprise applications and google stake, if everything is open (as it seems right now) what will be Google’s interest on it? I might be being naive here, but I can’t see clearly how will google monetize the huge enterprise market for this. Wave provider hosting?" Imagine your company invented email, or the web, and built all the initial software. Even without any lock-in, you would do alright.

cpr 17y ago

No, I think he's got it right. A blip is just a distinct (per-user) document that lives in a wavelet (the wavelet can have a distinct membership from any other wavelet in the wave). So the wavelet functions as an "email" (which can have sub-emails with different contributors) in the wave "email thread".

extension 17y ago

"Enterprise applications and google stake, if everything is open (as it seems right now) what will be Google’s interest on it? I might be being naive here, but I can’t see clearly how will google monetize the huge enterprise market for this. Wave provider hosting?" Imagine your company invented email, or the web, and built all the initial software. Even without any lock-in, you would do alright.