They see you as you type it feature can be toggled on and off. Nuff said.

You can add robots, like Bloggy, to waves and they can copy all the content - text, pics, etc. - to the blog immediately. Very Cool!

It translates into 40 different languages using the WHOLE internet as the language model. Can you say powerful (in 40+ languages)?

-Tom

Tbeek:
Nobody is denying its potential to be a very powerful app, but there are still open questions beyond seeing every keystroke and it it's worth having a discussion about the pros and cons of this approach.

Thanks for the comment.

Ron

I don't really understand why everyone is freaked out by as-you-type messaging, doesn't anyone remember good old 'talk'? Furthermore, they clearly stated that this would be something you could turn off so it seems like a non-issue to me, people who can't deal will just disable it.

And I do think in terms of waves completely replacing email and im clients *eventually*, first by integration (embed a wave in an email and collaborate through it, and possibly by gateway integration tools), and slowly by completely getting rid of the email part. Gmail is already a nice integration of im and email so this is the next logic step to me.

If the ultimate communication tool isn't Wave (and I'm under no illusion that it is), at least Wave is leaps and bounds closer to some ideal than the aging email and im systems we have today. And I think that it's going to be magic for collaborative teams and software development groups and the ability to start pooling different information resource silos (the bug tracking integration was a good example of that). That is where I'm most excited.

At the very least the next few years should be very interesting.

I know this is the first tool to attempt something like this but to me it feels like the right tool to me at this time.