Judson Dunn wrote: > I can't sell my luddite co-workers on the idea of a blog, or a > wiki, but this is more obviously approachable. For more normal > web users, there are obviously a lot of advanced uses as well.
Google Wave combines many concepts, such as mail discussion threads, Twitter-like short message discussions, instant messaging, wiki-like edit history and an animated playback. The idea of showing diffs since the user last viewed the same wave, is very similar to Flagged revisions. My guess is that this mix is too advanced for most users and will be a hard sell, almost like an automobile with a joystick (like an airplane) instead of a steering wheel. As a stand-alone server on a developer team intranet server, this might be useful, perhaps a competitor to MediaWiki+Bugzilla or Trac. But the server-to-server federation protocol is useful only when many others run compatible servers, and that could take a long time. Google can of course let GMail and Blogger run this protocol, but that doesn't mean all existing users will start to understand "wave" conversations. Instead, old-school e-mail conversations might take place over this new protocol. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
