Google Wave

[Laszlo Pandy]

For all the buzz about wave replacing all communication it really
doesn't do everything well. I don't think its gonna replace email at
all, its almost nothing like email.

It can emulate instant messaging, but it's awkward. For example, you
can go back up in the conversation and delete old messages or reply
inline further up. I'm used to IM conversations going linearly
downwards and checking at the bottom. Google wave doesn't even
automatically scroll down when something new appears, and there's no
text box to type your reply in. You have to hit "reply" first to
create a new message.

As far as I can tell, wave is basically google docs on steroids. It
works well for collaborating on a document or like a really slick wiki
page. Its probably better than anything else right now for this, but I
think the way they are marketing it as the new email is just gonna
confuse everyone.

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Ralph Janke <txwikinger at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Basically, wave is a collaborative working environment similar to gobby and
> kobby. It allows the concurrent working on documents by different people at
> the same time.
>
> Personally, I would really like this to be combined with a reversion system
> such that such documents can easily be pushed to bazaar or github, hence pair
> programming a la agile development becomes workable even in environment when
> the members of the pair are not in the same office.
>
> Ralph
>
> On November 27, 2009 06:09:52 pm Bob Jonkman wrote:
>> I looked at the "Welcome to Google Wave" demo -- heavily dependent on
>> Flash, so I see very little of it.  Would be better without proprietary
>> technologies.  As long as Google is encouraging people to use the Chrome
>> browser, why not use Canvas and HTML5 attributes?
>>
>> I've got Wave now, but it's a solution searching for a problem. There's
>> bound to be a killer app for it eventually, but not yet.
>>
>> --Bob.
>>
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>> Andrew den Hertog wrote:
>> > It still needs a lot of work done to it, but i think the end product will
>> > be great, if u have a decent internet service provider with sufficient
>> > bandwidth
>> >
>> > Andrew den Hertog
>> >          drewdh at gmail.com
>> >          andrew_denhertog at hotmail.com
>> >
>> > Cell: 604-798-9591
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>> >
>> > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Leigh Honeywell <leigh at hypatia.ca>
> wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:26:19AM -0800, Victor Mendonça wrote:
>> >>> Anyone here using the new Google wave? What are you thoughts?
>> >>
>> >> It's soooo slow on firefox.  but otherwise pretty neat :)
>> >>
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