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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 ceoyoyo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why did/do we put the recipient's name at the top of a letter and our name at the bottom? Or in the case of a business letter, you put the recipient's name TWICE at the top and yours both at the top and bottom? The envelope has all that information on it!

    Those things aren't for information. They're social niceties.