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Reply #1 - 2009 May 29, 4:40 am
stoked Member
From: Switzerland Registered: 2009-01-09 Posts: 378 Website

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ&

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

Btw, check 0:37:15  smile

Last edited by stoked (2009 May 29, 4:44 am)

Reply #2 - 2009 May 29, 5:55 am
Tobberoth Member
From: Sweden Registered: 2008-08-25 Posts: 3364

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

Feels like a really useful tool.

Reply #3 - 2009 May 29, 6:56 am
LTze0 Member
From: UK - Cambridge Registered: 2009-04-26 Posts: 19

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. sad

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Reply #4 - 2009 May 29, 9:13 am
sethg Member
From: m Registered: 2008-11-07 Posts: 505

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 smile

Reply #5 - 2009 May 29, 10:09 am
Shingo Member
From: US Registered: 2008-02-06 Posts: 58

This looks awesome, thanks for the link.

Reply #6 - 2009 May 29, 10:12 am
liosama Member
From: sydney Registered: 2008-03-02 Posts: 896

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

But I'll see how it goes

Reply #7 - 2009 May 29, 10:23 am
Tobberoth Member
From: Sweden Registered: 2008-08-25 Posts: 3364

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.

Reply #8 - 2009 May 29, 12:55 pm
saru_yo Member
From: Germany Registered: 2009-01-10 Posts: 24

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

Reply #9 - 2009 June 09, 2:35 pm
anon6969 Member
From: Anon Land Registered: 2008-03-24 Posts: 49

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.

Reply #10 - 2009 June 09, 7:12 pm
blackmacros Member
From: Australia Registered: 2009-04-14 Posts: 763

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 wink

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.

Reply #11 - 2009 June 09, 9:07 pm
Jarvik7 Member
From: 名古屋 Registered: 2007-03-05 Posts: 3946

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.

Last edited by Jarvik7 (2009 June 09, 9:08 pm)

Reply #12 - 2009 June 10, 7:02 pm
magamo Member
From: Pasadena, CA Registered: 2009-05-29 Posts: 1039

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.

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