Re:Apache open sourcers welcome Google's unwanted Wave
by frb on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @06:14AM
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I don't think that it should have been marketed or seen as "the email killer" or as an replacement for email at all. Conceiving and positioning it as an enhancement to email and IM would hav been the better move.
You're right, the unification of communication and integration of documents, etc. is a great feature, but for me it lacked of real integration with email and IM. E.g. Why couldn't I get notifications for my Gmail or Google Talk accounts. Why couldn't I push content (mails/messages/attachments) from my mail and IM accounts to Wave directly. So, you're right again, Google messed up the execution.
Re:Apache open sourcers welcome Google's unwanted Wave
by _grrr on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @06:22AM
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Absolutely - not making email integration easier was a big FAIL. It would have made the adoption of Wave so much easier.
Re:Apache open sourcers welcome Google's unwanted Wave
by aloneinkyoto on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @06:41AM
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The possibility to unify all my communication around common threads makes sense, being able to use it as a replacement for chat & email - as it has properties of both
Hey, I think Facebook just launched a very elegant solution for that. But what would the world come to if we would suddenly start using the same tools as our grandchildren for serious business?
However, Google definitely messed up the execution of it's release to the general public, it never got any critical mass and the concept was presented in too abstract a way for most people to get it and therefore try to use it, but I can see how a large organisation, such as those discussed above, could pick it up and deploy it internally with success.