Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today

Re:Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invent... by jodrellblank on Thursday May 28, 2009 @02:19PM (#630735)

suggests that the amount and quality of participation goes up radically when comments can be interleaved at a paragraph level.

The way emails grow with repeated and old information and forwards is something I really dislike about email and like the sound of wave.

However, unfortunately wave is destined to fail. Exchange 2010 with Outlook 2010 claims: "Improve user productivity with the ultimate inbox experience." - http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/apr09/04-15Exc...

Since Exchange/Outlook will have "the ultimate" inbox experience, Google Wave can neither equal it nor improve upon it.

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Re:Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invent... by blogimus on Thursday May 28, 2009 @05:05PM (#631020)

Oh, I'm sure these products, just like laundry soap , in the superlative war of marketing (see link below), will come up with something to one-up "the ultimate" inbox experience.

Why stop at the inbox? The inbox is so... limiting. Who wants to be stuck in a box?. Maybe something like that.

Article: Detergent can be so much more (http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_18/b3982087.... ).

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