Wave goodbye to dealing with Email, IM, Twitter, Facebook etc separately
In case you missed it Google showed the world it’s vision of the future of digital communication. It also dropped a little platform called Wave. Screen shots do not do this justice - watch some of the keynote to get a glimpse at how powerful and habit changing this will be. Email is instant, IM is real time, sharing is easy, collaboration is powerful.
I’ve always been struck by the number of apps or services that come along with solutions that fail to get very far, even though their solutions really could be solutions. The biggest problem is user convention. We all have our ways of doing things, most often these are far from optimal but because we don’t need to think about our actions they are simplest. Any new service that could make us 3 times faster but that requires hours of re-training hits the habit wall.
Twitter and Facebook didn’t need to change our habits - these were completely new ways to communicate so didn’t suffer with the same problems many of the email, sharing and collaboration solutions out there have.
It takes a powerful service to change global habits, Google couldn’t do it with Friend Connect (Facebook Connect is so much more logical) but they will do it with Wave.
No more ‘reply to all’ - I can’t wait.
