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Initial Reviews of Google Wave; Neat, But Noisy
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."
So long as you have no experience with coherent linear conversations, yeah, Gmail provides an excellent simulacrum of what you might think one looks like.
One of the amazing things about Wave is that it brings the amazing new technology of character by character chat! Oh, except that's how 'talk' used to work decades ago, before the phrase IM was invented!
No offense, but I clicked, I read, and all I saw is the same banal, mind-numbing blow-by-blow of some guy's dull, ordinary day that I see on every other Twitter feed.
Breakfast served all day!
You're an ass, and you've always been an ass. Go fuck yourself.
P.S. Can you pick up some milk on the way home? We're all out.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
A. You suck at English; please stop trying to give lessons.
B. E-mails are not for 'story telling', but for asking short questions or sharing small bits of information. You want these bits of information sorted chronologically and by relevance. Why would it make sense to put the new, relevant parts as far away from the user as possible? Would you prefer your inbox to have the first e-mail you ever received permanently at the top?