This post has been lying idle in the drafts for more than a week, and before the news gets too old I want to post it here in the blog. I am little skeptical about Google Wave from the time when Google wave is out. I have my own doubts about the pain points it is trying to solve and wrote about the same in my last post Google Wave First Impressions, way back in October.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html
Constructive collaboration in conversational form is the main problem Google wave was trying to solve. Collaboration on content is a partially solved problem, with wikis, document portals and other solutions, but still they are terribly inefficient. Wave had technically the potential to address a good part of those problems, but it hasn’t been adopted by many and it didn’t have the critical mass to replace the email. It was too much complicated at that time. It’s interesting technology but had too many “new” things for the average user to get lost in. A combination of email + IM + real-time collaboration + a slick extensibility mechanism, to address too many scenarios than any other tool was too much for people to take it, may be it has a future potential but not today.
Am surprised you didn't mention sharepoint.
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