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Google Wave ftw
by gjvc 4y ago
Google Wave ftw
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoI really did like Google Wave and I'd love to see someone try the concept again, but it did have problems. Among other things, it really was quite buggy. Early on, this was understandable: they launched the product at a very early stage, which IMO is fine as long as you warn users what they're getting into. But as I recall, it never really stopped being buggy.
- aftbit 4y agoThey gave up on the prototype and added the live collaboration features to Google Docs instead. They left the mixed chat component behind pretty badly but they did build a good concurrently edited word processor. Does anyone else remember sending docx files around by email for revisions in Track Changes mode?
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoDidn't live collaboration in Google Docs predate Google Wave? The nice thing about Google Wave (other than the instant typing) was how you could seamlessly move between talking and collaborating.
- aftbit 4y agoI think it did, but I also remember it being a lot more janky than it was after Wave. My recollection is that they reimplemented it with what they learned from Wave. I might be mistaken though, no sources sorry.
- andkenneth 4y agoI think wave for the most part has been realized in products like Notion and the upcoming Microsoft Loop
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoNotion has some good ideas but to me it's no Wave! Wave, to me, just felt very seamless and free-form/flexible, in terms of how you could go from chatting to planning to collaborative writing and editing. Haven't tried or seen much of Microsoft Loop.
- gjvc 4y agoYes! Wave was a genuine attempt to move the public on from wikis, word processors, and other entrenched modes of interaction to something completely fresh.