Google Wave's Best Use Cases
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Wave is more confusing than it is inspirational. My first thought upon opening the invite was "wtf?", and after a few minutes of staring at it, "wtf?!?". Then I closed the window.
Maybe wave will become useful after a few iterations, but in its current incarnation it's in the same category as Yahoo Pipes. I.e., technically interesting/dazzling, but of little practical use.
As far as I know, gmail is a surface abstraction of wave between Google's private servers.
I do understand that most email tools suck, but that is the fault of the tools and email culture, not "asynchronous queue of messages."
They should add reddit-like features for public waves.
Tangential note: I've noticed your comment and a few other comments being downvoted out of disagreement lately - as per the guidelines and for the sake of rich discussions, if you disagree with a comment it would be great if you could reply to it rather than just downvote it - that we we all get the benefit of your particular viewpoint and it contributes to the discussion.
I replaced 'Google Wave' by 'Plone' or 'Blog' and the meaning seemed to be preserved... are they the same thing?