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Google Wave First Impressions

I was lucky enough to receive a Google Wave invitation in the second round of invites google sent out.

After the initial excitement of being one of the lucky invitees wore off I lent a more critical eye to what Google’s touted as an Email replacement.

So far to me it’s looking a lot like a combination of Instant Messenger, MySpace, IRC and WhiteBoard. I’m not seeing the Email replacement so far for one reason and one reason only. There’s no way to add someone to a wave without adding them to your contact list (At least that I’ve found so far in my incessant searching).

To me this is a deal breaker for an Email replacement, especially if you send a lot of messages to people once and then never need to contact them again. I can see the contact list getting WAY out of control. Hopefully this will be changed in the final release.

Other than that I can see Wave being incredibly useful for anything that requires a lot of back and forth or collaboration.

Wave Screen Shot

Wave Screen Shot

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One Response to “Google Wave First Impressions”

  1. Paul Gilbert says:
    October 18, 2009 at 12:43 am

    How did you get your hands on an invite?

    Thanks for the review, please keep them coming, Will you give us an update in a couple of weeks?

    Does it integrate with 'old' email or can you only communicate with other wave users?

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