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Geek Culture / Google's Next Product: Google Wave

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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 30th May 2009 06:37
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So I just got done watching an hour and 20 minute presentation video on Google's next product-Google Wave. It's difficult to describe, but it's basically a tool for collaboration and communication online. Here's the about page that might describe it better:

http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html

And the video link (worth watching):
http://wave.google.com/

From what I've seen, I'm very impressed (but not surprised, it is from Google, what else can you expect?). A tool like this will make collaboration on projects, or just everyday communication much more efficient and smoother. I'm looking forward to hopefully using it in game development in the future...


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JoelJ
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Posted: 30th May 2009 06:56
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Yeah, I watched it today. It looks very awesome. I love how they made everything open, which will help it catch on, I think. I hope they open the beta to the public pretty soon so more developers can start getting on it.

I love the live update and stuff. Not so much for chat, but more for collaboration. Like designing stuff and things. To have it update like that will be awesome.

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AaronG
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Posted: 30th May 2009 08:44
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This reminds me of facebook, only...by Google. Haha.

I'm very excited about this though.



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SikaSina Games
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Posted: 30th May 2009 16:28
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Just looks like a hybrid of Yahoo! Messenger, Live Messenger and FaceBook...Probably nothing special IMO .

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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 30th May 2009 19:30
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Quote: "Probably nothing special IMO ."

Did you watch the video? . And that's exactly why it is special-it combines instant messaging with networking and email plus additional features.


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Jeku
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Posted: 30th May 2009 20:15
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While I am impressed with the technology, I am not impressed with the features. It seems like something that would be geared for a small part of the general population. I can see it being useful for people collaborating on a project, but it probably won't be popular for friends to just hang out.

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Roxas
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Posted: 31st May 2009 00:42
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Well, concider how my mom is accidet to facebook (Which has really bad browser support BTW) I can see how she reacts on this.

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flashing snall
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Posted: 31st May 2009 05:21
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This looks like a better version of Skype

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IanM
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Posted: 31st May 2009 14:15 Edited at: 31st May 2009 14:15
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I can't believe the guys that are marking this down!

The ability to consolidate wiki, email, chat, twitter, forums, social networks, blogs, newsgroups etc, using a single interface, and to do it all in almost-real-time with document history and automatic language translation is a massive step forward in communication.

Even if it's not this specific platform, this kind of thing is definitely the way forward.

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flashing snall
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Posted: 31st May 2009 17:10
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that playback feature looks amazing too.

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Jeku
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Posted: 31st May 2009 22:42
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@IanM - I guess the thing for me is it doesn't shock me instantly. When I first saw Google Maps, Google Earth, and Google Suggest (just to name a few), I was completely amazed in an instant. Google Wave seems like too much under one roof. If it takes off, then I will not be against using it myself. I just don't see it as being "the next email".

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RedneckRambo
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You guys actually sat through that entire video? I lasted about 6 minutes until I was bored lol.
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