Checkout the incredible Google Wave project. This is gonna change everything. If you don't wanna go through the whole video, go visit the Google Wave Preview Page.

I'm really putting a lot of hopes in this, since I think Wave is a solution to so many issues with today's communication tools.

  • You just received an e-mail with no subject. What previous e-mail is it answering? Where's that e-mail?
  • If you start a "conversation" in an e-mail, and have several people join after a while, how can then know about the beginning of the conversation?
  • When you follow a newsgroups, forums, or worse, a mailing list using a web interface, what's the order in which people answered? What exact question are they answering?
  • Forums: which topics have I read, which have I not?
  • Instant messaging: how can store what has been said? How can I access it anywhere in the world? Why can't I see what the other is typing? What protocol should I use?
  • Blogs: why can't I post a comment by "answering" to the RSS feed?
  • What standard tool can you use to organize an event? Simply trying to know who's coming and who's not can be a nightmare unless you use some social network apps, but not everybody is in Facebook
  • Why can' t I follow my e-mail, forums, blogs, newsgroup in a single interface? (actually you can with Thunderbird!) From any computer in the world? (ok that you can't)
  • I've put a lot of efforts to sort my e-mails and my RSS feeds using tags. How can it benefit my friends?
Magically, this is all solved and unified in a Wave conversation. Sharing of files is also maid very easy, everything seems elegant and smooth. I just can't wait!