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...Wave isn't actually an e-mail killer. In practice, it's more like an insanely rich IM client. E-mail is asynchronous; you can wait an hour or (if you are, like me, a bad person) a week to answer it. But because Wave operates in real time, it demands immediate attention like an IM or a phone call or, for that matter, a crying baby. When Wave is up, it's hard to focus on anything else. That isn't a defect, but it does narrow the scope of its usefulness. Getting more information right away...
...about just text. You can put pictures in a wave, plus richer, more dynamic stuff: movies, games, polls, maps. You can publish your wave to a blog. You can embed it in a website, where it retains its editable, collaborative waviness. And this is just beta stuff. Like everything else these days, Wave is a platform. Google is encouraging developers to write apps that will make waves do even more. (The full launch is expected in the first half of 2010 - though don't forget that Gmail spent five years in beta.) (See pictures of work and life at Google...
...Google Wave is, in short, a remarkably full-featured collaboration and communication tool, powerful enough for enterprise customers and easy enough for civilians. It's also a warning shot across the bow of pretty much every software company anywhere. It's amazing how many people's grills Google is getting up into with this single product. It's real time like AIM and Twitter (and it can talk to Twitter by importing and exporting tweets). It's social and shares media, like Facebook. Anybody who makes an e-mail client or collaboration software should be paying attention to Wave. This...
...clear yet which way Wave is going to go. But it's definitely going places - and not just to Brazil. It won't replace e-mail, but it deserves a spot in any office warrior's arsenal, especially warriors who work in recession-starved offices that can't shell out for pricey software packages (cough, Lotus, cough...
...comes with eight free Google Wave invitations. Even if Wave hasn't made me more productive, it's definitely made me more popular...