Char By Char Synchronization
Today google is going to launch google wave to 100K users. Wave is a new form of communication channel, which makes group email more like wiki + instant message conference. One important feature is character by character synchronization among all participants. An interview with wave core engineer Dhanji Prasanna shows that the synchronization part can be traced back to a 1995 paper, High-Latency, Low-bandwidth Windowing in the Jupiter Collaboration System.
I am not sure if char-by-char synchronization is really useful for email. I feel that will be the first thing I am going to disable in my email client if it exists. I prefer the opposite direction by giving a second thought for everything I send. Isn’t that another google project, undo send? (Actually the dream may come true by replacing distributed emails with a central wave.) But I do see some other scenarios where char-by-char synchronization is very interesting. Live cooperation on google doc really introduced huge edge to beat microsoft. A new startup on social answers, flusher, distinguishes itself from other answer sites by instant answers. Also, some professional traders really want to share their trading actions in a more live way. Social needs to go to real time.
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