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I love how we're using Hacker News here -- this is definitely not what it was designed for. What we're really doing is something like a live chat room while wat
by drostie 14y ago
I love how we're using Hacker News here -- this is definitely not what it was designed for. What we're really doing is something like a live chat room while watching a common talk, but unlike chat rooms it can be threaded and points can be allocated. Also unlike a chat room, HN does not automatically update when we get new discussion messages, but that's a constraint of the technologies at the time it was built.
It might be very interesting to try to use comet-casting or websockets to revolutionize chat in precisely that way, realtime threaded discussions. So, in addition to all of the chat constraints you have the ability to dynamically mark certain chat messages as replying to other messages, and as the noise in the chat room gets higher you can filter yourself to just "I want to follow this discussion."
- diminish 14y agoI love how HN users love to make live meta analysis; in most of the topics, some significant percentage of people are not focused much on the topic, but on observing other users' interactions and its techno-historical review. These show opportunities for future products.
- dandelany 14y agoThis is why Google Wave got me so excited - and why I was so disappointed when it was botched and silently killed. I think an app like Wave could be great for many things, including discussing a live event like this.
- tikhonj 14y agoI'm glad to hear I'm not the only one sad that Wave passed away. I really think it could have found some unique uses, but most people (and, transitively, Google) just didn't give it enough time. Isn't it open source now? I might try the open source version one of these days... Maybe I can even convince my friends to use it :).
- JohnLBevan 14y agoMy thoughts precisely. The code is still out there though - just waiting for someone to pick up where Google left off. . . http://incubator.apache.org/wave/about.html http://incubator.apache.org/wave/about.html My plan is to try to rewrite this as a sharepoint add in, so that all those companies who install sharepoint as their "solution to everything" get something good with it; that could help grow the user base / promote belief in the technology. Then it could be openned out into allowing people to connect to hosted public services, and eventually get back to Google's original vision. ps. In honour of the subject matter, perhaps we should be calling it Google Duality?
- Angostura 14y agoThis guys have picked up where Google left off:http://rizzoma.com/ http://rizzoma.com/ in fact, many of my Waves were transferred to it
- JohnLBevan 14y agoAwesome - thanks for the link :)
- Hovertruck 14y agoThis happens a lot on sports-based subreddits as well, when there's a game on.