Re:Google Wave's Best Use Cases
by jimboyoungblood on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @08:52PM
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Perhaps it does. But if it did, I think we'd be seeing articles like "How I used Google Wave to get laid and make money", not speculative "What could Wave be possibly useful for?" articles like this one.
Wave is more confusing than it is inspirational. My first thought upon opening the invite was "wtf?", and after a few minutes of staring at it, "wtf?!?". Then I closed the window.
Maybe wave will become useful after a few iterations, but in its current incarnation it's in the same category as Yahoo Pipes. I.e., technically interesting/dazzling, but of little practical use.
Re:Google Wave's Best Use Cases
by TrevorJ on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @03:19PM
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Public waves will need some heavy hitting filtering tools to be handy, you are right about that.
Tangential note: I've noticed your comment and a few other comments being downvoted out of disagreement lately - as per the guidelines and for the sake of rich discussions, if you disagree with a comment it would be great if you could reply to it rather than just downvote it - that we we all get the benefit of your particular viewpoint and it contributes to the discussion.
Wave is more confusing than it is inspirational. My first thought upon opening the invite was "wtf?", and after a few minutes of staring at it, "wtf?!?". Then I closed the window.
Maybe wave will become useful after a few iterations, but in its current incarnation it's in the same category as Yahoo Pipes. I.e., technically interesting/dazzling, but of little practical use.
As far as I know, gmail is a surface abstraction of wave between Google's private servers.
I do understand that most email tools suck, but that is the fault of the tools and email culture, not "asynchronous queue of messages."
They should add reddit-like features for public waves.
Tangential note: I've noticed your comment and a few other comments being downvoted out of disagreement lately - as per the guidelines and for the sake of rich discussions, if you disagree with a comment it would be great if you could reply to it rather than just downvote it - that we we all get the benefit of your particular viewpoint and it contributes to the discussion.
I replaced 'Google Wave' by 'Plone' or 'Blog' and the meaning seemed to be preserved... are they the same thing?