Yes, it’s finally happening! Recall in my previous post about feeds, I mentioned that feeds were great for abstracting website content but we didn’t have anything like that for discussion. The trimmed quote:
“The web is a dynamic medium, and one example of this is the discussion features provided by websites. It’s functionality like this that will see readers tearing themselves away from the purity of their feeds. You can’t post a comment without visiting the actual website… yet. It won’t be long before we have … an open standard for abstracting website discussions into the feed reader, possibly eliminating the need for a website altogether.”
This is essentially Google Wave. The demo contained no specific example of abstracting blog comments into the wave client but I’m certain someone will write an extension; after all it’s open source.
I am really excited that Google have decided to push the web in this direction. If you’ve got a spare hour and 20 mins, go watch the demo. You WILL be impressed.
