This isn't my idea, it's my colleague's, but he managed to get it through my thick skull this morning: it's all about the robots.
Wave robots can do anything, including publishing from a wave to somewhere else, filtering and parsing, importing content, linking, whatever. They're bidirectional pipelines! And that means they're a fantastic tool for automating things, and what's more, they're easy to explain to people less technical than us mob.
Imagine this: "here, i'll copy in the room booking robot", which goes away and reads the wave to book you a room, just as you might copy a secretary into an email conversation if you were lucky enough to have administrative support...
Two of the web services I've got most from recently have been Highrise and Tripit, in both cases because I can just forward them stuff and what I wanted to happen happens. Google Wave makes building that kind of app much, much easier.
Wave robots can do anything, including publishing from a wave to somewhere else, filtering and parsing, importing content, linking, whatever. They're bidirectional pipelines! And that means they're a fantastic tool for automating things, and what's more, they're easy to explain to people less technical than us mob.
Imagine this: "here, i'll copy in the room booking robot", which goes away and reads the wave to book you a room, just as you might copy a secretary into an email conversation if you were lucky enough to have administrative support...
Two of the web services I've got most from recently have been Highrise and Tripit, in both cases because I can just forward them stuff and what I wanted to happen happens. Google Wave makes building that kind of app much, much easier.
That gets my attention, anyway.