Wave goodbye to spam
Google Wave combines the best of email, instant messaging and real-time collaborative editing into a new form of online communication.
The email paradigm of ’send and receive’ is replaced with a model of hosted conversations, in which “people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.”
Wave is refreshingly ambitious. In years to come, I hope we will be waving nostalgically about email as “something that my parents used to do.”
This blog post describes an idea built upon Google Wave that could also turn email *spam* into the stuff of nostalgia.
Spam sent by people you don’t know is a real pain in the inbox. But simply ignoring emails from people you don’t know is not the answer. (Otherwise I would never have learnt about my recent win on the Nigerian lottery. Just kidding.)
So how might Google Wave help us to finally wave goodbye to spam?
- assume that developers will build robots to connect my wave account with the rest of my social graph (either that &/or Google plugs in Friend Connect)
- if someone (or a spambot) outside of my social graph invites me to a wave, my wave server responds to that invite with a reCAPTCHA challenge (try one out below)
