Topic: Wave Goodbye to E-mail?

[sam]

Late last year, getting a Google Wave invite was reminiscent of getting a Cabbage Patch Kid in 1983. It was the newest gizmo everyone just had to have. As a geek, I was one of the kids begging the loudest. Thankfully, one of our readers from across the pond (Paul Howard, thanks!) sent me an invite, and I cleared my schedule for the product that was going to change the way I communicate. Only, it didn’t.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/wave-goodbye-e-mail

I still don't get it.

[Baz]

what is it....just another instant messaging piece of kit

[Rik]

I still am not sure, Baz, which bodes ill for its future.

[davy51]

Its an all in one system

IM,email,chat,and most social sites

http://www.google.com/support/wave/

If anyone wants to check it out you can request an account

https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignup/

[sam]

I've used it a few times and though it has some cool features - e.g. mathematical function showing etc, its just not going to replace my normal tools and it really just hasn't with many at all.

[Simon]

I think email will be around for a long time yet.

[Rik]

I celebrate 25 years of using email this year...

[Simon]

 

[Rik]

Back in '85, I discovered the one fatal flaw in my cunning plane. I didn't know anyone else with an email account.

[sam]

 

[Simon]

You had a cunning plane?  Did it fly itself then? 

[Rik]

No, it had a pilot called Baldrick.

[Simon]

[Clive]

You were a pioneer Rik! 

[Rik]

I was Clive, and it was an expensive facility back then.