aleksl - 1:27 pm on Jun 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

stef25, I mentioned in another thread that this "VP of Engineering" is no engineer but a crowd control person, and the others use some techniques. THis is really SAD, if Google actually succumbs to this, it means their product is CRAP, and they are playing a CULT card now.

Well, I watch presentation partially, and is it just me or this is nothing more than a glorified chat? In fact it is NOT an email and NOT a chat, they pieced it together and didn't even implement a most important feature of the email - which is most people DON'T want others to see what they type before it gets sent.

Oh, and in business world if you include a person in an email conversation, chances are you don't want him to see what has been discussed previously (especially on important threads where authority figures are involved). Doesn't work with Wave.

But we'll see how it develops.

As far as real time translation, Google already provides military with devices that do it, so should be no problem implementing it into a chat software.