Someone wasn't paying attention :) I remember people dissing html when it came out as an alternative to Gopher...<br>So here's a summary for people who didn't feel like watching all the presentation and doing the subsequent cursory research into the docs available.<br>
<br>Of course, it didn't help that the wave presentation was painfully drawn out with 'clap-for-me-I'm-so-cool' and 'watch-out-here-comes-the-bug' interludes. Luckily, that team is better at design and programming than making presentations.<br>
Don't look at the wave as a tool, it's a protocol, a platform for interaction, with people and tools transparently mingling by way of their digital output. The first two thirds of the presentation was showcasing individual tools they built to run on this platform.<br>
<br>I was looking for a long time for many of the features included in this collaboration platform. The blip paradigm is great for maintaining concise, (un)foldable history, and doing all sorts of other neat tricks.<br><br>
The wave is much less of a mess than email. You get ONE copy, ONE coherent message. Anyone can edit out uninteresting parts. Or change any part of the message. Or collapse (hide/show) a (set of) sub-wave(s). I haven't seen this level of low change granularity ever since *nix's talk and its n and y branches. It's like real chatting, where (if you don't want to), you don't have to wait for the other people to write an epic story and press Enter before you can see where s/he's going. And unlike real chats, you don't have to interrupt the speaker in order to make your own point. It's like a wiki cured of markupitis, in which people can actually work on the same page at the same time - without locking files and having to figure out how to <br>
----<br>integrate <br>----<br>simultaneous <br>----<br>edits.<br>----<br>... because the system does it instantly. Not to mention that change ownership is guaranteed through the robust, mature account admin tool Google is well known for. <br>
And the contextual spelling/translation tools? Wow. I hope those scale up gracefully.<br>With background robots you can even integrate on-the-fly markup, that gets converted to its output as soon as it's typed. Heck, the sky (and server power) is the limit to what you can have a wave do.<br>
<br>No, there are only two problems with the waves (that I can see so far):<br>- avoiding nasty loops in robot behavior and<br>- the enormous amount of server activity it will generate :) <br>This is not a puppy one can run off of a shared hosting account :)<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Radu<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:48 PM, jdd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdd@dodin.org">jdd@dodin.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Tegan Dowling a écrit :<br>
<div class="im">> I haven't finished watching all of it, but it's exciting.<br>
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</div>not really - the "wave mail" will become very fast a mess<br>
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it's simply a way to edit a document simultenaously by several people.<br>
May be usefull for a wiki, but for a mail, one can't trim the<br>
uninteresting part, so the document can only grow<br>
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jdd<br>
NB: I must say I stopped viewing after half an hour<br>
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