Google Adds "Wave 2.0 ' docs-the Wall Street Journal (blog)

Does anyone viettämäni the Google Wave? No, I think not. For those who don't remember, it was sold as the "what e-mail will appear as if it were invented today." Because it was fiendishly complicated and had a user interface (UI) from hell, maybe it was just as well the unlamented death died.

However, it was a good document as an instrument of cooperation, which is admittedly a much duller, it might be done better, instead of rather than. The experience of the projects and, in addition to the Wave-like Core Google Docs were today in London and the United States.

Google's product manager, Google Enterprise, Matthew Glotzbach is Google Apps the London wave the flag, the software-as-a-service, Google aims to businesses. His story is the title of a million enterprises in Europe, in Europe, the Middle East and Africa is logged on to the service.

The notice of initiation of an anti-' Son of the Wave ", is called officially unveiling the discussions.

"We have learned a lot — of some of the good Wave, some of the poor — that much," he said.

When collaborating on a document to keep track of users, and that document the discussions around it can be quite difficult. If it takes place? In the document itself? That may be unwieldy very quickly. So take the discussion to come to people in e-mail — to divorces in the discussion of the document.

Google Docs was already a commenting system, but this new wave approach makes significant improvements.

Discussions on what is the comment interface into Google Docs, and Google Mail of this fact. If the user adds a comment, it will turn up in your Inbox. You can reply to the Inbox folder or in the document, but in either case, the comment thread is viewable through the document.

Other interesting addition is the Twitter-like @ mentions. Users can invite to the conversation by @ mentioning his e-mail address.

Certainly from the demo looks like and allow a useful by adding handlers to build around a shared file in the discussions. The interface is still a bit of a Wave-like — and that is not a compliment — but Mr. Glotzbach said that it had been used on the inside of the Google for several months. There again, Google is the huge number of engineers involved in the Organization and thinking of the buzz was good. Normal people fight quite so well we will see.