Google Wave as a PIM?

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Posted by Chris Thompson
Oct 24, 2009 at 02:17 AM

I still have a couple of invites. I can be contacted at lastname.firstname at X.com; where lastname is my last name and firstname is my first, and X is gmail.

Also, I think PPL’s idea of a Wave thread is a good one.

—Chris

Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>I’m now out of invites. As 6 of us are regular OutlinerSoftware users, we may start a
>parallel OutlinerSoftware discussion and report back the pluses and minuses of it as
>a discussion group framework.
> >WKYP

Posted by Tom S.
Oct 24, 2009 at 09:06 PM

FYI I got an invite from another friend. Haven’t gotten any to give out, yet. If you want to include me in discussion: tshanno@gmail.com

Tom S.

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 27, 2009 at 05:49 AM

Many thanks to Pierre-Paul for the invite. The experience of Google Wave has been very interesting indeed. Here are my initial conclusions:

- As a communication tool, Google Wave is one century ahead of e-mail and instant messaging. I can’t wait to get invites so that I can get my collaborators on Wave. It will save innumerable hours of searching through e-mail.

- That said, like with every communication tool, one needs to follow a few rules to facilitate order, structure and flow. I’m sure that people who (in e-mail) respond to an irrelevant message in their inbox because they can’t be bothered to look for one’s address, will still manage to create disorder. I’m glad that my first Wave experience was with people who care about structure :-)

- As an outliner, Wave has a long way to go before it offers some of the minimum functionality that we are used to in this forum—and I doubt that it even wants to get there. For example, responses within a normally flowing conversation are simply stacked under each other; one must deliberately respond _within_ someone else’s ‘blip’ (message) text for that response and all that follow to become subsidiary to that blip. also, only then does one get a +/- bubble allowing them to hide that branch of the conversation.

To summarise: for communication, Google Wave can replace e-mail and instant messaging tomorrow and no-one will want to go back. But it is not meant to be a PIM, and Google usually gets where its aiming for.

Posted by Tom S.
Oct 27, 2009 at 10:59 AM

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:

>- As
>an outliner, Wave has a long way to go before it offers some of the minimum
>functionality that we are used to in this forum—and I doubt that it even wants to get
>there. For example, responses within a normally flowing conversation are simply
>stacked under each other; one must deliberately respond _within_ someone else’s
>‘blip’ (message) text for that response and all that follow to become subsidiary to
>that blip. also, only then does one get a +/- bubble allowing them to hide that branch of
>the conversation.

I would agree and add that the inability to associate your “reply” with more than one blip is a disadvantage.

Tom S.

Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Oct 28, 2009 at 01:31 PM

I was granted 13 more invites today, so anyone interested can contact me

http://www.infoqube.biz/Contact-Info

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