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<blockquote data-quote="Asmor" data-source="post: 4948506" data-attributes="member: 1154">It's kind of like a cross between a message board, a wiki, and email, with a pseudo-RSS paradigm in that you can pull together many disparate sources into a single reader, theoretically a reader of your choice though at the moment obviously Google's the only game in town.The whole concept is treating a conversation (a &quot;wave&quot;) as a single object, and allowing that object to be displayed many different places (e.g. on a blog, in your main google wave reader, etc). Even though there are many disparate sources, since they all are based off the same object, all sources are always up to date and no matter where someone edits or contributes to a wave all sources displaying that wave are updated simultaneously (literally simultaneously... as in real time, keystroke-by-keystroke).So just to show you some idea, consider if ENWorld decided to jump ship on vBadvanced and use google wave as the model behind it, replacing all of the threads with waves. They'd look pretty much identical to their current incarnation. However, if I reply here, I'd also see the wave back in my centralized reader, along with waves from other websites, blogs, etc, all collected into one place.It's definitely an exciting idea, but just to clarify my laughter above there's no way it's going to replace email any time soon, if for no other reason than the fact that email's so deeply-ingrained. That said, it has a lot of potential, if enough sites pick it up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Asmor, post: 4948506, member: 1154"] It's kind of like a cross between a message board, a wiki, and email, with a pseudo-RSS paradigm in that you can pull together many disparate sources into a single reader, theoretically a reader of your choice though at the moment obviously Google's the only game in town. The whole concept is treating a conversation (a "wave") as a single object, and allowing that object to be [i]displayed[/i] many different places (e.g. on a blog, in your main google wave reader, etc). Even though there are many disparate sources, since they all are based off the same object, all sources are always up to date and no matter where someone edits or contributes to a wave all sources displaying that wave are updated simultaneously (literally simultaneously... as in real time, keystroke-by-keystroke). So just to show you some idea, consider if ENWorld decided to jump ship on vBadvanced and use google wave as the model behind it, replacing all of the threads with waves. They'd look pretty much identical to their current incarnation. However, if I reply here, I'd also see the wave back in my centralized reader, along with waves from other websites, blogs, etc, all collected into one place. It's definitely an exciting idea, but just to clarify my laughter above there's no way it's going to replace email any time soon, if for no other reason than the fact that email's so deeply-ingrained. That said, it has a lot of potential, if enough sites pick it up. [/QUOTE]

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