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I think that the success of Slack fairy strongly validates it as being 'more useful' than Wave. Google has the brand power to get as many people as they want u

I think that the success of Slack fairy strongly validates it as being 'more useful' than Wave. Google has the brand power to get as many people as they want using something, and it's free - and people chose not to use it. Conversely, slack was a tiny startup with no marketing budget, to start, and people are actually paying $ for Slack - so that means a lot.

chiefalchemist 8y ago
More people use =/= more useful. More and more we read about people / teams de-Slacking. why? Because it's just not delivering the value they need. It's effective __ but only to a point__, and then it becomes the bottleneck. Yes, it's a great screwdriver, provided you don't need a hammer. I'm not disputing Slack is a more mass market product - just like USA Today is not The Economist. Wave was a new, different, and I'm maintaining arguably better way to look at team comms / collaboration / building a knowledge graph. Let's not confuse Google's cluster-fucking the execution of the rollout + marketing with the value of the idea itself. Google had the power, yes. But they botches the beta. The sad thing, they did the same for G+. That is, they didn't learn from Wave.