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Google Wave to replace email?

As ‘Unplugged Freaks‘ we’re trying to do our best to avoid being stuck in front of the computer.
Inspiration and innovation happens when you move around, meet people and be in the right environments.
Staring at your email inbox is no such thing – I think you would agree!

Google Wave, to be released later this year, is an entirely new way to communicate.

You see, email was invented before the Internet even existed. It was designed with snail mail in mind: person A writes a letter, person B opens it. Person B writes back, attaches a document, and sends it back to person A.

Google Wave is different: it reinvents email as if it were invented today.
Instead of sending ‘letters’ to other people, the conversation lives online. You can invite anyone that needs to be in on the conversation.
You could even invite your blog as a ‘person’, and the conversation will be visible as a post.
Now, people simply reply to the wave (read: email), the whole wave or just some parts of it. They can drag photos onto the conversation and share them.
No more ‘attachment is too big’ errors – a genius concept I must say!

The  product isn’t out yet, so I can’t say much about it, but here’s how I think The Unplugged can use it to their advantage.

• Read your waves on your phone instead of your PC – this enables you to move around
• Invite your freelancers to the wave and upload work files (Magnetic Prototyping photos and so on) – saves the cost of project management software.
• Don’t type. Attach job details in an audio format (using your phone’s mic) – this will save you time typing long messages
• Google Wave’s timeline feature can fast-forward and rewind a wave conversation. This saves you from having to write the same emails over and over to different people. Simply invite them to the wave.
• Being able to reply on parts of the message saves you from those people that only reply to one or two topics in your email and ‘forget’ to go into what you are actually writing. Brilliant!

There’s probably a lot more advantages I left out — let me know how you would use it!

Can’t wait to give this product a go! I signed up for developers access, so I’ll keep you updated on the functionality.

- Michal

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