{"id":597,"date":"2009-12-06T19:24:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T19:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/12\/06\/google-wave\/"},"modified":"2009-12-06T19:26:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T19:26:42","slug":"google-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/12\/06\/google-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Google Wave\" href=\"http:\/\/www.monsieurlam.com\/wp-content\/2009\/11\/google-wave.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"google-wave\" src=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/googlewave.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"google-wave\" width=\"327\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was just reading a thread about <a title=\"Google Wave\" href=\"http:\/\/wave.google.com\" target=\"_blank\">Google Wave<\/a> on <a title=\"Seloc\" href=\"http:\/\/seloc.org\" target=\"_blank\">Seloc<\/a> where someone posted this pic \u2013 seems pretty accurate to me so far!<\/p>\n<p>There are clearly some very clever ideas in Wave, and I can see some of them being very useful\u2026 but will it ever replace email?\u00a0 Not sure to be honest\u2026 whilst email is old tech, its strength is that everyone on the internet has an email address, and probably knows how to use it to send and receive messages.\u00a0 Will Wave ever be that ubiquitous?<\/p>\n<p>Giving away the server component is probably a good start, and I guess embedding it into GMail would probably help too.\u00a0 But even with a free server component, how may clients will there be?\u00a0 Will people want to check their email and their waves?\u00a0 I have to admit when I first looked at Wave I wondered if I could set it up to send me an email alert when there was an update\u2026 then realised that was probably missing Google\u2019s point :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are clearly some very clever ideas in Google Wave but will it ever replace email?  Emails strength is that everyone on the internet has an email address, will Wave ever be that ubiquitous?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[81,21,357,524],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-email","tag-google","tag-google-wave","tag-tech","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}