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If that's the case I think they should narrow and focus. If it's a tool for corporates to communicate, 'mailing lists 2.0?' then it'd be cool to go that way. B

by axod 17y ago

If that's the case I think they should narrow and focus. If it's a tool for corporates to communicate, 'mailing lists 2.0?' then it'd be cool to go that way. Being marketed as "It can do everything!!! It's the new internet!", which seems to be the current strategy, could pay off, but maybe not. Likely only with geeks wanting to play with technology. I'd be really surprised if it takes off with consumers quite yet.

sp332 17y ago
They need to get buy-in from geeks first, otherwise no one will write programs for it.
- isamuel 17y ago
  This is probably true. But if the purpose of Wave is to be "Collaboration Tool for Large Corporations to Share TPS Reports," isn't it doomed with most hackers anyway? Who would want to write programs for that?
  - axod 17y ago
    ...and in XML :/ eugh
elblanco 17y ago
It definitely is over-hyped. I think it has to do with the focus seemingly on the developer addons and bots and such vs. the collaborative communication medium. Perhaps they thought they had to differentiate from message boards or IM or email or IRC?
roc 17y ago
It's not just a tool for corporates though; they're just a handy example because at their scale the problems are unavoidable. If you have to coordinate communication and collaboration among any group of people, Wave will help. Though if it's only 2, 5 or 10 people, it's more likely you can get everyone to agree on convention and get by with older tools.
m0digital 17y ago
"Mailing lists 2.0" is an interesting term. It's kind of the principle we have used in building MooGroups http://moogroups.com http://moogroups.com. Instead of setting up a mailing list only for a specific group of people you email often, we make it so that essentially each group email is its own mailing list, so people who are part of that group email can email each other in an organized fashion or opt-out as needed. Unlike Google Wave, MooGroups is available now, being improved upon everyday, doesn't require any signup, and allows you to use any email system.

by axod 17y ago

sp332 17y ago

They need to get buy-in from geeks first, otherwise no one will write programs for it.

isamuel 17y ago
This is probably true. But if the purpose of Wave is to be "Collaboration Tool for Large Corporations to Share TPS Reports," isn't it doomed with most hackers anyway? Who would want to write programs for that?
- axod 17y ago
  ...and in XML :/ eugh

elblanco 17y ago

It definitely is over-hyped. I think it has to do with the focus seemingly on the developer addons and bots and such vs. the collaborative communication medium. Perhaps they thought they had to differentiate from message boards or IM or email or IRC?

roc 17y ago

It's not just a tool for corporates though; they're just a handy example because at their scale the problems are unavoidable. If you have to coordinate communication and collaboration among any group of people, Wave will help. Though if it's only 2, 5 or 10 people, it's more likely you can get everyone to agree on convention and get by with older tools.

m0digital 17y ago

"Mailing lists 2.0" is an interesting term. It's kind of the principle we have used in building MooGroups http://moogroups.com http://moogroups.com. Instead of setting up a mailing list only for a specific group of people you email often, we make it so that essentially each group email is its own mailing list, so people who are part of that group email can email each other in an organized fashion or opt-out as needed. Unlike Google Wave, MooGroups is available now, being improved upon everyday, doesn't require any signup, and allows you to use any email system.