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	<title>Comments on: Thoughts on the Google Wave Beta</title>
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		<title>By: Michael Kozakewich</title>
		<link>http://www.acleandesign.com/2009/10/thoughts-on-google-wave/comment-page-1/#comment-1384</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kozakewich</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In the most basic sense, Wave is a Collaboration Platform. Collaboration and planning. They&#039;re trying to pretend it&#039;ll replace email, but that&#039;s just not what it is, at the moment. It&#039;ll also fail as an instant messager without some sort of template.

When you get right down to it, even email is open-endeded:
&quot;What do I do?&quot;
&quot;You can send a message to someone.&quot;
&quot;Well, what should I say?&quot;
&quot;...Anything?&quot;

It would help to say it&#039;s a planning software, though.

Also, if there&#039;s one thing I&#039;ve found out from my repeated exposure to Google&#039;s open alphas (whatever they call them, they&#039;re basically pre-beta) is that the not-so-bright users will complain about how it doesn&#039;t work, and they&#039;ll sometimes just put it down and never use it again. It&#039;s better to keep the vast majority of the users waiting high and dry for a stable release.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the most basic sense, Wave is a Collaboration Platform. Collaboration and planning. They&#8217;re trying to pretend it&#8217;ll replace email, but that&#8217;s just not what it is, at the moment. It&#8217;ll also fail as an instant messager without some sort of template.</p>
<p>When you get right down to it, even email is open-endeded:<br />
&#8220;What do I do?&#8221;<br />
&#8220;You can send a message to someone.&#8221;<br />
&#8220;Well, what should I say?&#8221;<br />
&#8220;&#8230;Anything?&#8221;</p>
<p>It would help to say it&#8217;s a planning software, though.</p>
<p>Also, if there&#8217;s one thing I&#8217;ve found out from my repeated exposure to Google&#8217;s open alphas (whatever they call them, they&#8217;re basically pre-beta) is that the not-so-bright users will complain about how it doesn&#8217;t work, and they&#8217;ll sometimes just put it down and never use it again. It&#8217;s better to keep the vast majority of the users waiting high and dry for a stable release.</p>
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