Google Wave: email done right?

[gusl]

Thanks to Jon Elsas, I now have a Google Wave account (but no invitations). It seems to just be an alternative to email. Like GMail, it seems to be based on the idea of grouping emails into a single conversation ("wave"), and it supports different types of reply, in a way similar to LJ. It also eliminates the need to forward emails to late-joiners (like a mailing list archive does). Like protected wikis, it's never too late to fix or reorganize the content, and anyone in the team can do it.

If it's intended as project management, it seems to be missing a lot of the features that QTask has, like assigning and accepting tasks.

Comments

just email?

[pbrane.livejournal.com]

It seems to just be an alternative to email.

Er... it's email fully integrated with IM and a wiki (with playback, like you said), which seems to me a bit more than just basically being email++...

The gWave team really plays up the realtime nature of it, although its the replay and wiki-like features about it that appeal more to me.

[chrisamaphone]

i think most internet communication utilities were probably first thought of as "just some silly alternative to email."

personally i'm excited about threaded conversations. i've always wanted them in real life. having them in IM conversations is close.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

I agree.

Does it let you break up a message into many sections, and then reply to each point individually? That would be cool... and NLP folks who are into discourse parsing would sure appreciate seeing data like this.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wirehead_/]

yeah, you can reply to each "blip", and still collapse all the replies down so you don't lose the thread of the original message. it's pretty neat.

btw, i still have a few invites if we know of anyone else who really wants to play with it.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

yeah, I just noticed this.