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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.
No. Sharepoint is a marketing term covering a disparate range of collaborative applications from Microsoft. Similar to how the .NET label was a marketing label for a bunch of disparate technologies.
Google Wave is a single innovative new technology on which many collaborative tools are and may be built.
Funny, on another thread I'm being accused of being an Apple Fanboi. You guys should stop being so juvenile. I won't come down to your silly level and accuse you of being in MS PR. But instead just give a citation to prove my point:
The term "SharePoint" can collectively refer to a number of products ranging from the base platform to various services. The platform is Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), which is included with Windows Server and available as a free download for those with Windows Server licenses. Services such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) provide additional functionality and features and are licensed accordingly.[2]
Microsoft identifies the following as part of the current SharePoint products and technologies family:
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS)
Search Server 2008 Express
Search Server 2008
Forms Server 2007
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MOSS Standard
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MOSS Enterprise
Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007
Microsoft Office Project Server 2007
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, a free[3] editor to help administrators develop and customize SharePoint solutions, is also in the SharePoint family.
Previous versions of elements of this software used different names such as "SharePoint Portal Server 2003" and "SharePoint Team Services" but are also referred to as SharePoint or SharePoint Technologies. Since the beginning, when the SharePoint initiative was collectively called Tahoe, SharePoint development has been a mixed bag of products and technologies and included the now defunct Site Server 3.0.
SharePoint, as a collection of technologies, is not intended to simply replace a full file server or to be a single use solution. Instead, it is geared and positioned to play various roles in the business and enterprise environment. Microsoft markets these vectors as Collaboration, Processes, and People.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharepoint
>a web browser should never, and I mean NEVER, need half a gig of memory to view my open tabs Hmm. 512MB of ram should be enough for any web browser? If it bothers you that much though, just go to your about:config page and edit the browser.cache.memory.capacity
Perhaps if you close the tabs with pr0n that may help
I have watched it smartass and failed to see anything particularly "revolutionary".
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