Google Wave: the test

I was finally invited to try Google Wave few weeks ago. You might want to see the previous article about Wave to understand the purpose of this product. As Internet is my first tool to communicate, I was first quite disappointed because I couldn't reach a lot of my friends. This is the reason why it took me so long to write an article about the features and usability of Wave. Google made a great job in keeping the layout quite close to what we would expect for e-mails. There is the folders menu, your contacts, the lists of messages and a window to read the current wave. The whole thing is very similar to Outlook or Thunderbird. So, it's very easy to understand the principles or to use it the same way as a simple e-mail account. But once you use Wave, you cannot miss the fact that it's different from e-mail. You can structure your messages very easily so that anyone can follow your thoughts. The only issue is that it takes ages to organize the thread in a clever way. But then you can add