Wave: when it will start to get really useful October 7, 2009
Posted by Russell in Uncategorized.Tags: communication, email, google, google wave, hurdles, internet, language
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They say you are good at a new language when you no longer have to consciously translate to and from your mother tongue. I think it will be the same way with Wave.
It’s only natural, but at the start everyone wants to understand wave in terms of current internet communication – IM, email, wikis etc. The thing is that a wave is something new, though having similar functionalities to current means.
Wave will come into its own when people start using it for what it is, not for what it’s similar to.
One report said that Wave is an evolutionary, not revolutionary change. That may be true from a technical point of view, but getting people to think in a different way about how they communicate is a revolutionary thing, and for Wave to be a success, that needs to be recognised.
Here are ideas of further major innovations to develop after Wave, to make it really useful, and provide an internet revolution : http://spoirier.lautre.net/beyond-google-wave
Developers needed !