I cover some of this in Gaming with Google Wave. Wave could very much replace some of those other tools easily which is the intent of Google Wave's design (i.e. - collaborative writing, synchronous and asynchronous communication, archiving, multimedia presentation, etc.), but there's something those other tools have that Google Wave doesn't have (yet): feeds and notifications.

Blogger, Picasa Web Albums, Google Docs, etc. all have an method of notifying you of updates via some external means of communication such as email or RSS/Atom feeds. Additionally, it's easy to syndicate a feed via other web sites and systems, but Wave does not currently have that capability.

And as of right now, it's easier to share resources in those other tools with individuals who are not part of your group, such as a campaign journal or a set of house rules that you want to make available to the public without granting permission to edit it.

I had a conversation with Andreas Rönnqvist of Dreamscarred Press (via Wave) about this topic, too. We both agreed that while Wave is excellent for drafting a document, Google Docs still has its place in terms of producing a final product for distribution and archiving.

Excellent as usual. But won't wave make most o...

2009-10-29T18:45:38.819-04:00

Excellent as usual. But won't wave make most of those other Google tools obsolete ?