[aklug] Re: Google Wave

Chatter in forum suggests additional invites may be slow in coming....

Some initial reactions:
=E2=80=A2 Unlike most wikis, though you can edit someone elses =
contribution =20
you cannot compare versions, you can only "replay" development
=E2=80=A2 no notification external to app
=E2=80=A2 threads quickly become unmanageable as in most fora
=E2=80=A2 don't even bother on an older machine, though syncing (and =20
resyncing is excellent)
=E2=80=A2 is accessible via iPhone, via bypassing uacheck, but suffers =20=

typical safari/webkit shortfalls (HTML editor won't work and loss of =20
navigation panel)
=E2=80=A2 acls are supposedly coming as well as much of the =
functionality for =20
which there is GUI but no function yet (such as file upload)
=E2=80=A2 learning curve is a bit steep; for example, while embedding =
utube =20
video is simple and elegant, it is not really intuitive (you need to =20
watch the instructional videos-and I hate to read instructions b4 =20
tackling something new -lol)

So the user needs to focus on maintaining the whole of the wave =20
(pruning, etc) and I think using wave "appropriately" will require =20
some changes in how people think about and use such apps (in some =20
senses though waves are much like mini-walls, an approach I tend to =20
dislike though it is very popular with 20 somethings - and my =20
preliminary research suggests, their parents ;=3D} for the obvious =20
reasons )

I am looking to try out video conferencing though.... Initial efforts =20=

there resulted in script errors. You game for that Royce?

On Oct 20, 2009, at 7:05 AM, Piet van Weel <pmvw@outwardfocus.net> =20
wrote:

> When they come available... I'm interested.
>
> Piet
>
> Marc Grober wrote:
>> The ability to embed and thereby make use not only of google =20
>> gadgets but of js means a giant step forward doing things like =20
>> chatting in math notation, but invitations in short supply.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 19, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net> =20
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> barsalou wrote, on 10/19/2009 10:19 AM:
>>>
>>>> Cool demo (long) on Google Wave:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dv_UyVmITiYQ&feature=3Dplayer_embedde=
d
>>>>
>>> Once we figure out how to handle the fact that everything is =20
>>> happening
>>> at once and the social conventions of when to edit what (much like a
>>> wiki), this promises to be pretty amazing, IMO.
>>>
>>> Not much to see yet; I don't have any invites to give out yet but =20=

>>> will
>>> announce here when I do if I have any left over and anyone's =20
>>> interested.
>>>
>>> Royce
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