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Google Wave
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 10:44 amSo, 100,000 invites for Google Wave have been sent out. Anyone have one? What do they think?
As for what Google Wave is, it's explained here. Basically it helps people collaborate and communicate in real time. It sounds really powerful, and it can be embedded.
Plus, developers can create applications/robots which can be used inside of Google Wave (see here for some examples).
I wonder how this will affect blogging? Right now, there is something that will let you embed a Wave into a Wordpress post. (Wordpress seems to have stepped into the world of vaguely twitterlike real-time blogging already.) So, it seems the blog post is merging with the comments, in a cross between a chat-room and a wiki? Interesting. Could this to some extent replace IRC chatrooms, as it allows rich media embedding and private conversations as well?
Some, though, are more skeptical. The way that "it's like email and IM got together and had a baby" doesn't impress him; he finds large Waves to be un-usefully noisy.
As for what Google Wave is, it's explained here. Basically it helps people collaborate and communicate in real time. It sounds really powerful, and it can be embedded.
Plus, developers can create applications/robots which can be used inside of Google Wave (see here for some examples).
I wonder how this will affect blogging? Right now, there is something that will let you embed a Wave into a Wordpress post. (Wordpress seems to have stepped into the world of vaguely twitterlike real-time blogging already.) So, it seems the blog post is merging with the comments, in a cross between a chat-room and a wiki? Interesting. Could this to some extent replace IRC chatrooms, as it allows rich media embedding and private conversations as well?
Some, though, are more skeptical. The way that "it's like email and IM got together and had a baby" doesn't impress him; he finds large Waves to be un-usefully noisy.
