Open Source Geek » Google Wave http://opensourcegeek.org Days in the life of an aging, open source geek Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:16:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Wave Goodbye to Email http://opensourcegeek.org/2009/05/29/wave-goodbye-to-email/ http://opensourcegeek.org/2009/05/29/wave-goodbye-to-email/#comments Sat, 30 May 2009 06:49:54 +0000 admin http://opensourcegeek.org/?p=227 For sometime now I have been of the opinion that email is broken. It worked at the time but now over 90% of email traversing the internet is spam. Sure, there are pretty good anti spam and anti virus systems but I honestly think we are just postponing the inevitable. I have had this conversation with friends many times and mostly they disagree but I honestly think we need something to replace email

Google Wave

Ive just watch the 80minute talk about Googles Wave and I think they really could be onto something. It combines rich interaction with very social features and its kind of an opt in model, like Facebook or Twitter, where you have to add people to your system. This means no unsolicited waves.

They have been working on this for two years and it looks really good. Dont take my word for it, go and check out the video here

Finally, and I have saved the best until last, they will be releasing it under open source so that you can set up your own Wave platform and it has federation built right in so that it will interoperate with other Wave platforms brilliantly

Lets hope this finally kills off email – it had a good innings but its time for it to go now

OSG

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