Archive for the ‘Adaptation’ Category

Google Wave is Coming: 100,000 Invites Go Out on September 30th

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Well, in the last two months, Google and third-party developers have been hard at work testing out the system, fixing the kinks, and building some amazing extensions. Still, only a handful of people, almost all developers, have access. That’s about to change soon though: on September 30th, Google will start sending out about 100,000 invites for the next version of Google Wave.

Read the full article on Mashable.com

Google Wave: Is the World Ready? It’s All or Nothing with Wave

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

On May 28th, tech circles went wild when Google revealed Google Wave at its Google I/O conference. The response to and the questions about the new communication platform were staggering. Is it something I should use? Is it a game-changer? Could it kill email itself? This type of lofty rhetoric will always raise hopes and draw scrutiny. We want to believe that new and radical technologies like Wave will change the very way we live. And while our experiments with Wave have brought us to the conclusion that this platform may indeed be a game changer, it won’t happen if there isn’t widespread adoption. So instead of asking whether Wave will kill email, the better question to ask is this: Is the world ready for Wave-based communication?

Read the full article on Mashable.com

Wave and e-mail integration

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Interesting news from a Google Wave project member:

We’ve also worked on an email bridge which makes it possible to read/write all your email inside wave.

http://twitter.com/tirsen/statuses/1965990190