Google Wave Begins Roll Out Comments

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

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.

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

Would love to get hold of an invite.

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

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?

@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...

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

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

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 ?

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.

Works in IE with chrome frame.

Death to Flash!

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

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? ;-)

@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.