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Google Wave Reviewed
Michael_Curator writes "Developers are finally getting their hands on the developer preview of Google's Wave, which means we can finally get some first-hand accounts of what it's really like to use, unfiltered by Google's own programmers. Ben Rometsch, a developer with U.K. Web development firm Solid State, blogged that, it's 'probably the most advanced application in a browser that I've seen.' Wave is like giant Web page onto which users can drag and drop any kind of object, including instant messaging and IRC [Internet Relay Client] clients, e-mail, and wikis, as well as gadgets like maps and video. All conversations, work product and applications are stored on remote servers — presumably forever. 'It's like real time email. On crack,' he wrote. And unlike the typically minimalist Google UI, 'It feels a lot more like a desktop application that just so happens to live in your browser.'" User molex333 has already written a Slashdot app and shares his initial reactions here.
Google is probably one of the most if not the most innovative companies in the world, I wouldn't be surprised if they have just created the next generation of communication!
on crack = A.D.D. = no work done = you are fired!
There's a girlfriend wondering why he won't annnnnsweeeeer any of the phone calls, voice mails, text messages, emails, or she's sent in the last ten minutes.
The more appropriate expression might be 'on steroids'. If it was 'on crack', it would look like a MySpace page.
Sharepoint is a way of "sort of" sharing Word >=2003 documents to "sort of" make a wiki.
Other than that (which isn't much that twiki can't do), it's basically a gigantic waste of everyone's time.
(I do work for Google)
Given how chaotic and unstable Wave is at the moment (based on my experiences with it anyway), I think "on crack" is a very good metaphor for the situation right now.
hyperbole on meth
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
But between this and Google OS and everything else, google is getting dangerously capable of mass information collection for nefarious purposes (read: more than is currently possible). Ive been willing enough to forgive the search engine because of its usefulness, but I see Google as the biggest potential data mining operation in the world. Have an OS, web search, email, chat, and voice all have the central management of one company who for all we know could have been served on of those secret orders they cant even talk about that all data mussed be passed on to some crazy orwellian agency. Not saying its true, but it makes you wonder...now I'm off to finish building my patented alaskan off-the-grid living structure called an igloo.
It's safe to be with Microsoft, after all. Thanks for helping me calm down.
in that an ape's feces don't exactly move much at all.
I'd like to see you say that after an ape has just flung a steaming turd at you! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg2AezJo8aQ&feature=related
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You actually believe that slow, clunky JavaScript apps are somehow less "broken" than Windows? JavaScript apps don't even have a standard GUI. We've reverted to the MS-DOS days where every app has to roll its own stuff.
That's pretty weird. I've just had a play with it and I'm struggling to think what to do with it. What's particularly weird is that the desktop has a web browser. Why would you need a browser if you're already using a browser to view the desktop? Naturally, the first thing I did with it was go to http://g.ho.st/ and open a new guest account...