fastcompany.com — Google Wave, announced today at Google's I/O Developer conference in San Francisco, is a hybridized email system that will fundamentally change the way we think about electronic messaging. This is foreboding for at least five reasons.
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Closed AccountMay 29, 2009
The article was just a tin foil hat. There is a check box that allows you to control whether that is happening or not. No problem. However, it is brilliant. It is more like a conversation, where somebody is expected to communicate in a fashion that the other person can understand so that the other person can parse the information as it comes.Don't worry. Go watch the presentation on it. It is going to be fantastic.
danielwsmitheeMay 29, 2009
And that is different then MS how exactly? Wave is open and can be installed on your own network so that internal "waves" never leave your building -- sounds a lot like an exchange server to me just a whole lot better.
mediaphileMay 29, 2009
Not even close.
mediaphileMay 29, 2009
You don't need to all have gmail. This is open source, and interoperable. Anyone can host a Wave server, in the same way that anyone can host an e-mail server.
mediaphileMay 29, 2009
You don't realy have to worry too much.
diggduggdoomMay 29, 2009
"It's easy to protect your privacy on any social networking service: just don't add public content you don't want people to see."Let's ignore for a moment that I would have to keep two accounts active (with no crossover) - one for professional relations and the other for friend relations. I'm still freely giving lots of information to Facebook and all of Facebook's business partners. They have privacy and content ownership policies/agreements, but we've already seen that they can be subject to change with little notice. Add to that the possibility of hackers, leaks, etc. which is possible with any business, but why add yet another entity to the growing list of people that have much more information about me than they need?And for what? The ability to network with people I already know (friends) or network for business where, frankly, there are much better options that give me more control over my presentation. No, thanks. Things might be different if I were looking for a job, but thankfully I'm not."Besides, you can always just send a private message (basically the equivalent of e-mail)."Or I could send an actual email without an "equivalent" or needing to log in to an additional site ('cause I'm not abandoning my regular email any time soon).
Closed AccountMay 29, 2009
One can hope. I don't know who that would work as far as business agreements, but I'll bet they can figure it out. Interesting thought.