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Initial Reviews of Google Wave; Neat, But Noisy

Posted by timothy on from the here's-yer-firehose dept.

bonch writes "Reviews of Google Wave are out, and opinions are that it has potential as a development platform but is noisy to use for real-time communication. Robert Scoble calls it overhyped, claiming it's useful for little more than personal IM or small-scale project collaboration. He complains about the noisiness of tracking dozens of people chatting him at once in real-time and calls trying to use it a 'productivity killer' compared to simpler mediums like email and Twitter."

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  1. Re:Echos thoughts of others after the demo by DerekLyons · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It seems that a lot of the early reviews are complaining that when they use like a real-time forum, it gets too busy. When a reviewer claims that he's chatting to 12 people at once and it's too much of a time sink - what is he comparing it to?

    The prelaunch hype by Google and Google fanboys.
     
     

    I'd like to read a review by somebody that knows what that they're talking about.

    Translation: "I don't agree with this review, and thus the reviewer is at fault and ignorant for not agreeing with me. Even though he has seen the software and I... haven't".

  2. Re:Echos thoughts of others after the demo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    OMG you are right! We can extend this to physical mail. The to (address) and from (return address) is on the envelope! Madness! Such waste... Americans are to blame somehow.