That's interesting.  I could see a lot of demand for a unified way to 
create response content on community-based websites.  Especially if you 
didn't have to create another user login at each one.

I am somewhat nervous of the web going in that direction, though.  What 
if users *expect* a Google Wave-based comments/response system *but* 
Google Wave is actually way crappier than some competing product? Or 
isn't accessible?  That's going to be a very tricky thing to resolve as 
a developer.


Patrick Haggerty wrote:
> I was thinking of it more along the lines of a content management system 
> than a web browser.  If Google manages to implement the features they 
> demoed in their I/O presentation and they make it easy for web 
> developers to integrate Wave-hosted features into their sites, I see the 
> potential for Wave to standardize the interface people use to contribute 
> to blogs, forums, social networks, etc.
> 
> As an example: a user goes to comment on a blog post and is given the 
> same tools in the same configuration with the same terminology and 
> iconography as she had when she wrote a product review at another web 
> site, which was the same interface she had while posting an update to a 
> social network.  I think if Wave is going to make any real impact, this 
> is the kind of impact it could make, and the kind of impact that most 
> interests me.  If it's just shooting to replace email, I think it'll 
> have the same issue BluRay is having: it's better, but most people are 
> just fine with their library of DVDs, thank you very much.
> 
> Wave can't do any of this right now, and I'm skeptical any tool will be 
> able to bring all these different forms of communication and 
> collaboration under one roof.  It's exciting to see the ambition, 
> though, and from a company that may just have the time, capital, and 
> expertise to pull it off.
> 
> That, or I'm just fond of Google's Kool-Aid these days.  Mmmmm, Wild 
> Berry Blash.  So good......   =o)
> 
> Pat
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Zachary Johnson <[log in to unmask] 
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
> 
>     Huh, you sure are giving Google a lot of credit!  Nothing wrong with
>     that I suppose.
> 
>     Me... I'm skeptical.  Email revolutionized communication and became
>     a standard way for people to interact on the internet, but there's a
>     thousand different email applications, both desktop and web based.
>     There's even the divide between plain text and HTML emails.
> 
>     The web browser may be a better example of a revolutionary
>     communications platform that (despite the variety of choices
>     available and the differences between them) comes close to
>     presenting a "standard interface through which the majority of
>     people interact" with the internet.
> 
>     Wave *may* just prove to be the standard protocol for a
>     revolutionized internet communication (still skeptical) but I just
>     don't see everybody interacting with the internet through some sort
>     of Google-made Wave Browser.  Google has at least been smart enough
>     to open up the protocol, which may make a future where there are
>     several competing Wave browsers on the market just like web browsers
>     now.  Perhaps you weren't suggesting anything more than that, Patrick.
> 
>     If Wave proves to be nothing more than another web application that
>     you interact with in your web browser, then I don't really see it
>     being *the* ubiquitous feature of post-Web 2.0.  I think it'll just
>     be one of many things we use.  Well... if we use it at all.  Not all
>     of Google's inventions are successful.  And so far, the few times
>     where I thought to myself "Ooh! I could use a Wave for this!" I've
>     been really disappointed with the User Experience.
> 
>     Ok, I'll give Google some credit, too: They must be doing something
>     right if we're even having this conversation.
> 
>     Zach
> 
> 
>     Patrick Haggerty wrote:
> 
>         Right now, I think Wave is more a toy than a full tool.  Part of
>         that is its feature set isn't complete and part is that we're
>         all treating it like a toy.  What I think Wave is ultimately
>         going to become is a unified interface for Web 2.0.  If they
>         manage to integrate the service into social networks and blogs
>         and forums and so on, we'll have one interface for the majority
>         of online contribution and collaboration.  Sure it's advertised
>         as the next iteration of email, but I think its greater
>         contribution will be to standardize the interface through which
>         the majority of people interact with the web.
> 
> 
>         On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Peter Fleck <[log in to unmask]
>         <mailto:[log in to unmask]> <mailto:[log in to unmask]
>         <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>> wrote:
> 
>            Google Wave has been fairly successful in organizing the Other
>            Future of News (OFON) conference. Julio Ojeda-Zapata provides
>         some
>            details at the Pi Press site.
> 
>          
>          http://blogs.twincities.com/yourtechweblog/2009/12/local-media-writer-harnesses-google-wave-for-planning.html
> 
> 
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