Wave goodbye to email
Apparently timed to steal Bing's thunder, Google software engineering manager Lars Rasmussen revealed Wave on its blog today.
Based around the traditional email inbox model we're all familiar with, it seems to be designed to enable all sorts of extra functionality including multimedia, instant messaging and the ability to dip in and out of a communication thread.
In this respect it seems to be a hybrid of email, IM, Twitter and web forum functionalities - a sort of Unified Communications (UC) for the Web 3.0 world. Funnily enough, Microsoft is trying its best to be a major player in the UC market, based around its Outlook and Windows Live Messenger applications.
Wave isn't available to the public either, and it doesn't even have a launch date due to it still being a work in progress. But you can sign up for notifications on it here.
While this is just an initial glimpse at these two new offerings, we'd like to get your first impressions in the HEXUS.community discussion forums.
