As readers of this site are well aware, e-mail has a good solid 30 year history of being the internet communication method of choice. It certainly has not gone unchallenged during this time – ideas such as instant messaging, forums, wikis and recently Twitter and social networks have all tried to establish themselves in the communication business with varying degrees of success. At the end of the day e-mail is by far in the lead and most of these services hook into e-mail as the de facto base line for communication online. A forum may send you an e-mail when your thread is replied to, and heavy users of social networking tools actually use e-mail even more.
Now for the first time Google’s challenge to e-mail is becoming available to the public. Google Wave is a new communication and collaboration tool from Google which tomorrow will launch for public testing by 100,000 selected users.
