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Huh? That's not at all what made Gmail a succes. If I'm on Wave, and you're not on Wave, we can't use Wave together. That's the end of it. If I'm on Gmail and
by generalk 16y ago
Huh? That's not at all what made Gmail a succes.
If I'm on Wave, and you're not on Wave, we can't use Wave together. That's the end of it.
If I'm on Gmail and you're on AOLMail, we can email one another, and I can tell you how awesome Gmail is.
Gmail was a well-defined product with obvious benefit. Wave wasn't, and to boot you couldn't immediately use it for its intended purposes.
- Wilduck 16y agoThis makes me think that Diaspora needs to be (or at least be moving towards) a "social protocol" like SMTP. Since something like this doesn't already exist, having a small user base may be helpful in providing feedback to developing one.
- michaelchisari 16y agoThere's ones in the works. Diaspora uses an amalgamation of protocols (webfinger, ostatus, a few others), Appleseed uses a homegrown protocol called QuickSocial, but is designed to be protocol agnostic, and there are a number of participating projects (spearheaded by StatusNet) working on a federated social protocol. Who will win out is anybody's guess, but there's solid work progressing in that arena.