If open source is to be one of the defining features of Web 3.0 (or whatever handle you wish to use to refer to the next generation of the Internet) in the way that Web 2.0 is largely defined by sociability and community, then this blog would do well not to ignore the release of [...]
I think it helps NOT to think of this as browser wars, or replacing email - Google are closing in on a point where all this web-enabled functionality is as ubiquitous and invisible as the myriad operations that happen when you boot up your PC or Mac, though much of it will happen cloud-side. For communications and media it should create continuity of experience because all the end user needs is something that can tap into the cloud - a phone, a netbook, the front panel on the fridge, a car.
On the human side, will this instantly make us better collaborators, or do we need to brush up on those abilities to really get the most out of it?
Instant collaboration, information on tap, all in a 3D real-world simulation. No need to travel, work from home, with constant monitoring to ensure efficiency and effectiveness. No more silly e-mails on works time, no office politics, etc. Heaven for the Creatives?
Recently came across this great little video on the Wired site, demonstrating some of the features of Wave using the Ezekiel 25:17 scene from Pulp Fiction. As the Wired site warns, "in case it's been a while since you saw Tarantino's classic, you're in for one colourfully-worded wave'
So far, I feel Wave is an intermediate step between the time-lapse of email and the immediacy of Instant Messaging. Collaborators on a Wave can choose to instantly interact or take a measured approach, but also, I don't think Google themselves have a designated procedure for how users interact with and on the Wave. We're in the process of defining that interaction during the Preview.
Blogged a bit more about it here... http://www.systemerror.co.uk/2009/10/17/first-wave-intact/
Google Wave
On the human side, will this instantly make us better collaborators, or do we need to brush up on those abilities to really get the most out of it?
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http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-10/16/google-wave,-as-explained-by-samuel-l-jackson.aspx
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Blogged a bit more about it here... http://www.systemerror.co.uk/2009/10/17/first-wave-intact/
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