Gina Trapani, Lifehacker's creator has just released her Complete Guide to Google Wave in PDF. It's only $6, so go buy it!
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Gina Trapani of Lifehacker has released her on-line Complete Guide to Google Wave. It is free! Soon it will be available for download in PDF. Later she plans on releasing a paper back version.
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"This is not another email client," we are firmly told at the beginning of the demo video for Mozilla's lab project, "Raindrop". The problem is, if its not an email client, why would we be even remotely interested?
I really like what Mozilla are doing with Raindrop. I really like what Google is doing with Google Wave. What kind of bugs me is that both of them are ignoring the fact that if they don't take email head-on, all they will do is create yet ANOTHER interesting communication tool that gets plugged into Outlook.
Could it be that Microsoft will come out on top... again?!
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I must be missing something --- or stupid --- but I am having a hard time finding anything particularly revolutionary about Google Wave. Gina Trapani has written a great article with screenshots about how it works. But, to be honest, it seems to be awfully like Microsoft Office with your inbox sorted by 'conversation'.
The bloggers I am reading are going ga-ga over the fact that Wave is real-time. But it is very difficult for me to understand how useful this would actually be in a business context. There are plenty of collaborative tools out there that do exactly the same thing, such as GoToMyPC and Microsoft's own Sharepoint. So why the fuss over Google Wave? I really don't know and I suppose I won't until I get to have a play myself.
As for the predictions that Google Wave marks the end of email? Dream on. The techboys can rant all they like, but it is the business communities around the world that will decide email's fate. With billions of people using email -- and most of them using Microsoft Outlook -- I find it almost laughable that a beta product that does little more than replicate other products is going to revolutionise the way we communicate.
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We all still use email, of course. But email was better suited to the way we used to use the Internet—logging off and on, checking our messages in bursts. Now, we are always connected, whether we are sitting at a desk or on a mobile phone.
There is quite a bit of commentary floating around at the moment about Google's "new" product, Wave. The guys at TechCrunch are getting all spank-the-monkey happy, predicting the demise of email:
"For many of us, email is simply not cutting it the way that it used to", bemoans techwriter, MG Siegler. It's a bold statement, considering the BILLIONS of people who use email every day.
"Google Wave... is perhaps the most complete example yet of a desire to shift the way we communicate once again" Eh what? Google Wave is a PRODUCT launched by a COMPANY. It is an EXPERIMENT by a COMPANY to shift the way we communicate.
"I would consider email to be a passive form of communication... Twitter is very passive..." Pardon? Passive, active, top, bottom... Aduh!
"Google Wave is attempting to be a passive-agressive (sic) form of communication. You can actively (aggressively) engage in threads in real-time, or you can sit back and let messages come to you..." Oh, kind of like email?
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A hyper-opinionated bule with a deep fondness for Indonesia. Mildly outraged but mostly harmless.
