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Merging Wiki with e-mail, IM, and threaded discussions with fine-grained security already is powerful. I hate discussing an issue with 5 other people over a th

by nwatson 17y ago

Merging Wiki with e-mail, IM, and threaded discussions with fine-grained security already is powerful. I hate discussing an issue with 5 other people over a three-day e-mail/IM/phone thread and settling 7 or 8 decisions ... but nobody updates the "authoritative document" in a file share or in the Wiki. Two weeks later you need a big e-mail hunt to find what the decisions were. Google Wave consolidates all that discussion ... sales strategy sessions, collaborating on writing technical specs, deciding where to meet for extended family vacation, handling a tech support case where 1 support engineer + 2 customer contacts + 3 internal engineers + 1 account manager need to interact ... all these become more efficient and possible. Add to that good multimedia content, versioning/branching/merging, embeddable widgets, and human-machine interaction ... Google Wave becomes a very powerful platform. It suddenly becomes much easier for a corporation to add human intelligence to deal with exceptional circumstances in automated workflows. There's fertile ground right there.

trapper 17y ago
If it works as it could, I'd hate to think how many startups just because completely obsolete. Our wiki, internal laconica, document sharing and collaboration software will probably all die if this works.
- bjelkeman-again 17y ago
  And these things will die because they have been superseded by something superior. What is the bad thing in that? That is what startups are all about after all. In addition, there will be tons and tons of new opportunity to build on this. I suppose one can hate the fact that the Internet killed a lot of BBSs, but it sure created more opportunity to build an industry than what these BBSs offered.
  - trapper 17y ago
    Agreed, it's just part of the cycle. I just feel for those startups who are now superseded, that's all. I know how hard they are working, and there must be a lot of frantic board meetings happening right now.

by nwatson 17y ago

trapper 17y ago

If it works as it could, I'd hate to think how many startups just because completely obsolete. Our wiki, internal laconica, document sharing and collaboration software will probably all die if this works.

bjelkeman-again 17y ago
And these things will die because they have been superseded by something superior. What is the bad thing in that? That is what startups are all about after all. In addition, there will be tons and tons of new opportunity to build on this. I suppose one can hate the fact that the Internet killed a lot of BBSs, but it sure created more opportunity to build an industry than what these BBSs offered.
- trapper 17y ago
  Agreed, it's just part of the cycle. I just feel for those startups who are now superseded, that's all. I know how hard they are working, and there must be a lot of frantic board meetings happening right now.