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Will Google Wave Work For You?

Submitted by Robdiana from Google Reader

Oct 30, 2009

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This post was meant to happen at least a week ago, but I simply got caught in the “current event” that is Google Wave.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Google Wave (and didn’t have or feel the need to sit through the 80 minute video when it was announced), it is the ongoing realization of the question:

“What would email look like if we set out to invent it today?” – Lars Rasmussen, Software Engineering Manager, Google Wave

That’s a pretty brave and bold question, because email has been around for longer than I have.

I call this an “ongoing realization of the question” because it won’t even come close to replacing email until there are more users. When Gmail first launched, the same thing happened. As more users were invited, its use became more widespread. Gmail is now incredibly popular and finally came out of beta earlier this year. Expect Google Wave to be in beta for just as long, if not longer.

The question I ask is posed in the headline, and the answer is….it depends.

The Few and Far Between

I’ve already mentioned the limited amount of users that

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