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Looks really cool, and powerful. But one thing I'd like to see is an "Easy Button" [Staples]. So I can optionally dumb it down for times where I'd like to just send a message - fast. Or, for my non-techie dad. I realize that defeats the purpose, but if Google is planning on replacing their email interface with this, it'd be nice to have options. - Dean from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Richard: When you view the power of Google's spell checker, and how it's able to read for context in real time you can see how much more protected a wave is against spam than SMTP traffic is. The extensibility of the wave via participating robots makes the possibilities of what one can do with a wave nearly endless. And mind you, you don't "send a wave," you invite participants into the wave. This is a very key, and important difference to how they function as compared to email or IM. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

I'm interested to know if Google Waves are going to eliminate spam from the ground up, or will we still receive Viagra spam Waves? Also will one be able to add participants to a Wave and restrict what they can do to the Wave? For instance, Waves could replace blog entries and only some participants would be able to edit it, whilst others would be able to comment on it, others only able to read it, and still others not be able to even know it is there. What about sending Waves to a huge list of subscribers, like mailing lists? If Waves are truly to replace email as we know it today, I'd like to know how these functions are going to be addressed. It's an exciting concept that the Google Wave team has presented and it would be wonderful to have a truly innovative upgrade to email. This product is long overdue. I hope it does all it seems to promise to do. What I want from it is a giant leap forward in productivity and an end to time lost on spam and other inbox clutter. - Richard Catto from FriendFeed MT Plugin

This is wonderful news for Afrigator! They offer some great features which are not found on the rival aggregator, amatomu.com. What I think would be a great addition is for afrigator to display an blog rank on blogs like amatomu does. - Richard Catto from FriendFeed MT Plugin

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This is wonderful news for Afrigator! They offer some great features which are not found on the rival aggregator, amatomu.com. What I think would be a great addition is for afrigator to display an blog rank on blogs like amatomu does. - Richard Catto from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Chrome is a better browser than Firefox for the simple reason that it has superior software architecture. Google made some important decisions when it came to engineering their new browser, such as running each tab in a separate process and writing their own Javascript Virtual Machine (V8) from the ground up to do things right from the start, such as compiling javascript and doing precise garbage collection. I downloaded it yesterday and I have been using it non-stop since. It is now my primary browser. There really is no contest when I compare it with Firefox, IE and Safari, all of which I have installed and continue to use. Firefox is a much better browser than IE to be sure, but I've been having a lot of problems with Firefox for some time now. When I first started using Firefox, it was pretty stable, but somewhere along the line they managed to upgrade Firefox into less stable software. Firefox 2 began to crash frequently and everyday. It became practically unuseable for me. I switched over to Firefo - Richard Catto from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Chrome is a better browser than Firefox for the simple reason that it has superior software architecture. Google made some important decisions when it came to engineering their new browser, such as running each tab in a separate process and writing their own Javascript Virtual Machine (V8) from the ground up to do things right from the start, such as compiling javascript and doing... more... - Richard Catto from FriendFeed MT Plugin