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Posted by JohnK
Jun 1, 2009 at 01:44 AM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>I think now I know; it’s not yet here, but just
>around the corner. My feeling is that it will eventually be available in most everyone
>of the serious online project management tools. It’s called Google
>Wave:
>http://andywibbels.com/2009/05/google-wave-keynote/
>
>Alexander
>
Agreed. I watched the whole Wave presentation yesterday and I was stunned. I think it will be huge. Used to its full potential, it should offer organisations the opportunity to make giant leaps in productivity, not just internally but in relationships with suppliers, customers….
Posted by Tom S.
Jun 1, 2009 at 10:04 AM
FWIW This is absolutely amazing. There’s a spot about 35 minutes in that has four people simultaneously editing a document in real time. I’m darned impressed.
But I am also worried that it won’t catch on. My father is 68 years old. He doesn’t know what a web browser even is. He calls it “Hotmail”. To this day he still doesn’t understand that the messages aren’t actually stored on his computer.
I’d love to live in this thing. Its going to have to be simple, easy to use and its still going to have to handle basic protocols like email. Otherwise it could be just a relatively small group of techy geeks using it.
Getting to the point for our purposes here, as far as the organizational aspects of the thing, its essentially a very advanced wiki. It will only be limited by the number of types of objects it can handle. For instance, its going to have to at least support drag and drop of web clippings from another browser window. I didn’t see it in the demonstration but I assume it can do that. Will I be able to drop in presentations? pdfs? What about the scientific graphing files that I have? That’s going to make a difference.
Tom S.
Posted by JohnK
Jun 1, 2009 at 02:09 PM
Tom S. wrote:
>But I
>am also worried that it won’t catch on. My father is 68 years old. He doesn’t know what a
>web browser even is. He calls it “Hotmail”. To this day he still doesn’t understand
>that the messages aren’t actually stored on his computer.
>
Yes, the one thing that occurred to me, from a business perspective, is that so many organisations still employ many people who can just about handle sending and receiving email. On a good day. Those people just won’t get Wave.
I think products like Wave, which offer so much potential, will create huge pressure on employees who don’t grasp the technology too well. It will no longer be acceptable to say “I’m not great with computers”.
Posted by Chris Murtland
Jun 2, 2009 at 03:11 AM
I was blown away by this. I think the fact that it will be open source and extensible gives it a good chance of succeeding.
My favorite part was the ability to split a message and spin off a sub-conversation from part of the message.
Adoption could be a problem, but if as long as you can get email messages into Wave, you could continue to work with people who don’t use it - they just won’t get the additional benefit. I think people are becoming much more used to how sites like Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, etc. work, so this kind of interface to project collaboration could actually be pretty intuitive to a lot of folks.
Chris
Posted by Jan Rifkinson
Jun 2, 2009 at 06:23 PM
What was interesting to me—germaine to this forum—is that ADM, besides being a 2 pane outliner, had a live component to it via SKYPE which allowed various participants to work on the same document, etc. It also integrated voice simultaneously. This was 2-3 yrs ago. Of course it wasn’t as smooth as WAVE but it was fascinating to work within it. This was a nightly occurrence for me as I volunteered to help debug it with a tech in China. There was almost no delay when it worked right which was quite often. I believe this part of the code was written by a couple of very clever Russian programmers-for-hire in a relatively short period of time…. +/- 6 months. This was one of the reasons why ADM was such an interesting program & such a great disappointment in the end.
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Jan Rifkinson
Ridgefield CT USA