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smc8788

1:58 AM on 30 September, 2009

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So will Wave ultimately replace Gmail (albeit quite far down the line) or will the two remain separate?

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Gordon394

3:00 AM on 30 September, 2009

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@smc8788 - maybe one day, but I suspect such a changeover would take so long that it could be 10 years or more. Besides, some people will simply always want just basic email. For the techies it could be an exciting new dawn though... ;)

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Michael8

7:56 AM on 30 September, 2009

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I can't wait to get my hands on Wave and see it as the perfect collaborative tool for teaching and learning. I even managed to watch the full presentation by Lars et al albeit on a rather slow summers day. Wave provides the same level of integration that made me so happy with my choice of Android for my mobile OS. Hopefully I won't be totally reliant on others taking it up to really enjoy what it can offer.

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hankb6d

12:25 PM on 30 September, 2009

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Confused? So is this "social" email? The problem with google is they create all these things I really do not want or need.

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Mark Horton

12:42 PM on 30 September, 2009

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Would love to get hold of an invite.

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Gordon394

12:45 PM on 30 September, 2009

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@hank - agreed. Like Gmail, Google Maps and the Google Search engine ;)

Wave rolls email, IM, blog posting, Twitter, Maps, Calendar, everything into a single programme and is made by the team behind Google Maps. It could completely change the way we interact on the Web, or it could prove information overload - either way, it will be interesting to find out.

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Simon

3:16 PM on 30 September, 2009

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How odd. I don't see any adverts on the screen grab posted in the article.

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rav

10:35 PM on 30 September, 2009

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Love how Twitter's deluged by people requesting wave invites. Would love to try it out but does seem like one of those things that's only useful when other's have it too. And will this translate to mobile platforms with any success?

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Cub

12:18 PM on 1 October, 2009

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@Mr. Patel - In Google's original demonstration of this *awesome* concept, after demoing it on a Desktop computer they also showed it running, natively in a web browser, on an iPhone and on an Android device. So yes. Unless your mobile platform of choice runs IE as it's incapable of running Wave because of MS' refusal to embrace standards.

Yes, it is only useful if others have it, but then so is email. These things just take time to propogate from the developers, though to the 'techie types', along by the geeks, passed to their families, then into the general population...

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drdark

3:38 PM on 1 October, 2009

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@Cub: apparently Gordon doesn't fit into any of those categories as he doesn't have an invite yet! Hehehe :P

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SB

3:39 PM on 1 October, 2009

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@cub

I thought it didn't run on IE becuase IE's javascript engine was slow. Nothing to do with standards.

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Gordon394

3:50 PM on 1 October, 2009

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@SB - no it is because IE still doesn't support HTML5

@drdark - only confirmed tech journo to get one so far is the chief tech reporter at the BBC - funny that! I have friends in high places though so got an invite headed my way ;)

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SB

4:22 PM on 1 October, 2009

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JS performance is one of the reasons: http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-wave-in-internet-explorer.html

But anyway, does anyone know how to find out when a sybase database was last reloaded ?

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Cub

4:55 PM on 1 October, 2009

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Although, SB is right in that IE's JS engine is pathetic, although HTML5 support is certainly the main reason... They seem still to believe that they will be able to control the internet! The future of the internet is open standards, even Flash is dying a well deserved and long over-due death.

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rav

8:39 PM on 1 October, 2009

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Works in IE with chrome frame.

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drdark

2:29 AM on 2 October, 2009

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Death to Flash!

Wait... are we agreeing again? Uh-oh.

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Cub

7:58 AM on 2 October, 2009

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Wave is why Google created Chrome Frame for IE, and it works fine unless you fall for MS' scaremongering...

@DrDark - stop this, you're scaring me! Does this mean you're going to buy a Mac? ;-)

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drdark

11:05 PM on 2 October, 2009

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@Cub: yeah, f*** it, why not? I'll get a PS3 too, 'cos I just got insulted on a Nintendo forum - sometimes it's not worth bothering.

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Hazellhoff

8:34 PM on 28 November, 2009

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I don't understand... I've received an invite from a buddy though. God I think I've lost my techgeeknerd mojo. Shall I bother with the the invite or can I sell it on eBay????

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