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I agree, Wave is really hard to explain, but once you see it in action, it actually becomes a lot easier to figure out.

Maybe one way to think about it as a more structured version of Etherpad, only that you can use it for collaborative editing and messaging at the same time.




That's really the exact opposite direction that I would go in for explaining this to a non-geek.

"Ether-what?"


well this is a geek site. when explaining it to non-geeks, you could just say it's email on crack.


Hah, I've told someone it has the everyone-can-edit style of Wikipedia and from then on they assumed it was for research only and were confused as to why we'd need "another one".

Sigh.




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