[Pointrel-discuss] Slashdot | Google Wave Reviewed

[Paul D. F. <pdf...@ku...>]

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/07/22/220226/Google-Wave-Reviewed
"Developers are finally getting their hands on the developer preview of 
Google's Wave, which means we can finally get some first-hand accounts of 
what it's really like to use, unfiltered by Google's own programmers. Ben 
Rometsch, a developer with U.K. Web development firm Solid State, blogged 
that, it's 'probably the most advanced application in a browser that I've 
seen.' Wave is like giant Web page onto which users can drag and drop any 
kind of object, including instant messaging and IRC [Internet Relay Client] 
clients, e-mail, and wikis, as well as gadgets like maps and video. All 
conversations, work product and applications are stored on remote servers — 
presumably forever. 'It's like real time email. On crack,' he wrote. And 
unlike the typically minimalist Google UI, 'It feels a lot more like a 
desktop application that just so happens to live in your browser.'"
http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10002763/google-wave-like-real-time-e-mail-on-crack/

Google Wave is a bit like the intent of the Pointrel Social Semantic Desktop 
(though not as distributed).

--Paul Fernhout