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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: 1, Troll

    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.

  2. Unix talk by ItsIllak · · Score: 1, Troll

    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!