Google wave - it deserves so much more hype.

[Recursion]

To be honest, the layout is pretty similar to outlook and other email clients so where everything is is pretty much the same, hence my view its simple. The advancement comes in the pure power of what u can do with the waves you create :p

BTW: what app did u say u were plannin to write to apply for the dev preview ?

I just ticked whatever boxes applied to me, I was interested in developing games, widgets etc for it and I was going to use it to help learn some languages as a student then only wrote a sentence for each text field, I don't know how, but that managed to get me into it.

[Agnostic Bear]

I don't like it - it seems to complicated, and unnecessary.

I'm gonna go ahead and agree here. I'd rather have all my services (im, email etc) in a familiar way and separated, so if one goes down, the others will stay up and running.

If my mail server goes down, no biggy, I just use one of my other mail servers to send it out until the server is back up.

If MSN goes down (very unlikely), no biggy, I just wait till they bring it back up.

If Google Wave goes down, BAM I've lost access to every service they provide as they bunch it all up into one area.

Besides I hate the designs Google put out, too argh for me to use, I like a good interface like Thunderbird or WLM.

[Mentor]

I'm gonna go ahead and agree here. I'd rather have all my services (im, email etc) in a familiar way and separated, so if one goes down, the others will stay up and running.

If my mail server goes down, no biggy, I just use one of my other mail servers to send it out until the server is back up.

If MSN goes down (very unlikely), no biggy, I just wait till they bring it back up.

If Google Wave goes down, BAM I've lost access to every service they provide as they bunch it all up into one area.

Besides I hate the designs Google put out, too argh for me to use, I like a good interface like Thunderbird or WLM.

This is about as informed as your php advice, your wave sever goes down you use your other wave server. The server model is similar to email in that way, you can run your own wave server if you wanted. Equally you could use your own wave client. So you get every bit of reliability of the email, which is more than you do with msn o.0
Dont like the client, make your own, dont trust the server, use your own... simple.

[Toughened]

All the technical mumbo jumbo is making my head hurt.
I'm more of a practical type person, I have to do it for it to sink in. So listening to a one hour video is not going to do it any justice. I'd need to see it and have a little go of it myself.

[GommeInc]

All the technical mumbo jumbo is making my head hurt.
I'm more of a practical type person, I have to do it for it to sink in. So listening to a one hour video is not going to do it any justice. I'd need to see it and have a little go of it myself.

Same, when they were playing with blogs ad editing through wave I just wanted to do it myself - it was so frustrating watching parts of that video

[Dentafrice]

I'm gonna go ahead and agree here. I'd rather have all my services (im, email etc) in a familiar way and separated, so if one goes down, the others will stay up and running.

If my mail server goes down, no biggy, I just use one of my other mail servers to send it out until the server is back up.

If MSN goes down (very unlikely), no biggy, I just wait till they bring it back up.

If Google Wave goes down, BAM I've lost access to every service they provide as they bunch it all up into one area.

Besides I hate the designs Google put out, too argh for me to use, I like a good interface like Thunderbird or WLM.

It's not just a "service", like they described in the video as the three Ps.

Product (the actual Wave product, such as GMAil..), Platform, Protocol.

[Mentor]

All the technical mumbo jumbo is making my head hurt.
I'm more of a practical type person, I have to do it for it to sink in. So listening to a one hour video is not going to do it any justice. I'd need to see it and have a little go of it myself.

Tis a technical talk, so more aimed at geeks :p More client aimed ones will appear when the product starts to near completion and enters testing.