Google Wave’s unproductive email metaphors

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• Email is a very poor productivity tool
• Spam from strangers is given equal hierarchical weight to crucial work emails
• People with potentially useful insight can't see what you're talking about unless they're specifically forwarded the email
• Hard to search: limited metadata and limited to own inbox, not company's
• Your emails are deleted when you leave the company – wasted knowledge for the company
• Email doesn't tell you about the sender
• Prioritizing email is difficult
• Google Wave repeats these problems and adds new ones
• You can't turn off live chat, which is extremely distracting
• No profiles, no real names, no ability to sort into groups
• The trash icon doesn't work like trash icons normally do; confusing
• Can't BCC people
• No integration with Google Docs
• It's slow
• No easy way to get extensions/bots
• It's extremely open to spam
• There's no obvious way to share waves in the way you can copy+paste URLs
• Robert Scoble will not be using Wave for anything