This is off-topic (chat to your heart's content) but have you guys seen this?

This looks fucken awesome. Can't wait for it to become public!

Btw, check 0:37:15

Just applied at waves.google.com, hopefully they will invite people.

Feels like a really useful tool.

This and WolframAlpha have given me a good morning of geeking out.

Google are amazing at making systems that work how they should.. can already see so many ways to incorporate this, will play with the API, but *after* exams.

I don't want to jump the gun... but I get the feeling this is going to really revolutionize the internet. I mean... as a whole. If it crosses platforms, I think it's going to unify the majority of daily tasks we perform using the internet. Really exciting stuff

This looks awesome, thanks for the link.

Hmm
I tend to not like things automating too much for me :\

But I'll see how it goes

liosama Wrote:Hmm
I tend to not like things automating too much for me :\

But I'll see how it goes

What do you mean? It's basically Web 2.0 e-mailing, where are you getting the automating from? If you mean the spellchecker, I agree but I'm quite sure it can be disabled.

Sounds amazing, thanks for the link!
I'd love to play with it already, haha.

Looks cool but I don't know what the single "concept" or "idea" behind it is. What is it /for/?

It could be used as a great collaboration tool for Japanese learning.

anon6969 Wrote:Looks cool but I don't know what the single "concept" or "idea" behind it is. What is it /for/?

It could be used as a great collaboration tool for Japanese learning.

You sort of answered your own question there I think

The point of google wave seems to be a new generation of email/IM/collaboration rolled up into one; but Google really highlighted in their demonstration that they would love developers to start building cool stuff on top of and interacting with Wave as soon as possible.

So the answer to your question is: you can use it for whatever you can make it do.

anon6969 Wrote:Looks cool but I don't know what the single "concept" or "idea" behind it is. What is it /for/?

It could be used as a great collaboration tool for Japanese learning.

From what I can tell, it's just-another-collaboration tool, but cloud based. I see no use for individuals who don't already use collaboration tools (aka most people). Hell, most people I know don't even use gmail, but settle for the obviously inferior Hotmail or Yahoo. I doubt this will find any popularity outside of businesses, but we'll see.

Then again I never worked well in groups.

Looks awesome. It has huge potential. Personally I want it to incorporate LaTeX so I can discuss math things and write papers with people all over the world on Wave. Lots of computer scientists/mathematicians/grad students majoring in some kind of science would appreciate it. And if Rosy at the end of the demo could speak math related things in various languages, it'd be great. The amount of knowledge it needs to translate math papers should be tiny, so I'm assuming it may not be entirely impossible to collaborate with people who have nearly zero knowledge of English/Japanese.