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Google Wave as a PIM?
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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 23, 2009 at 01:22 PM
Tom S. wrote:
>>If you’ve still got an invite to spare, I could answer
>that for you
>
>That’s more or less exactly what I was thinking. :)
Same here! I registered the minute I learnt about it, but still no news. I have restrained myself from giving my mail to the various third party sites that say they can get thousands of invites. (So Pierre, please please please!)
From a theoretical standpoint: as others here have mentioned (I recall Jack Crawford in particular) much of our workflow revolves around email and communications. It would therefore make much sense to organise one’s information around that communication as well—as long as it can make sense. The Google Wave team has correctly identified that email / IM and the like lack the consistency and continuity of conversations and have proposed what looks like a very powerful framework to replace them with.
I am uncertain to what extent Google Wave can work as an all-round solution, as it is relies on the ephemerous nature of communication; would it really make sense to get one’s long-term digital library on Google Wave?—I think not. However, I am quite certain that it makes much more sense to organise communication through Google Wave, rather than transferring selected items to other PIMS, e.g. from Outlook to Ultra Recall.
My idea is to integrate Google Wave within a broader PIM framework. The alternative would be to have a very powerful PIM that can handle communication as well; the latest Zoot, currently on Beta, integrates everything from e-mail to Twitter.
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Oct 23, 2009 at 04:44 PM
Hi Alexander,
Invite was sent out. Others can contact me through the InfoQube web site.
Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Oct 23, 2009 at 07:26 PM
And would Alexander care to share with the rest of us? :)
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Oct 23, 2009 at 08:34 PM
It can take a few hours / days for the invite to be sent…
Quote from Google Wave:
>> Invitations will not be sent immediately. We have a lot of stamps to lick.
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Oct 23, 2009 at 09:58 PM
I’m now out of invites. As 6 of us are regular OutlinerSoftware users, we may start a parallel OutlinerSoftware discussion and report back the pluses and minuses of it as a discussion group framework.
WKYP