Could you remove me from your listserve? Thanks, Charlot Meyer Graphic/Web Designer University of Minnesota Minnesota Population Center 50 Willey Hall 225 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 phone: 612-626-4216 On Dec 3, 2009, at 11:55 AM, Tony Thomas wrote: > I'm not sure Google has anything this "Big Picture" in mind for > Wave. I think they may be using the Twitter model of development: > Build something kind of cool and let users test it to find their own > uses. > > Right now, it just seems like email+. In other words, email with the > ability to embed some neat widgets. > > I've tried to use it like chat, and it's almost completely useless > that way. > > I've used it to manage a small project and it worked very well as a > sophisticated to-do list with hierarchical "conversations" > surrounding each bullet point. (A similar conversation over email > might have spanned 50-60 messages and would be much harder to track.) > > Anyone who has been in on the Twin Cities wave has seen what happens > when a real critical mass of users is all on a single wave. It's > white noise. One of the advantages of a forum is the ability to > ignore threads you're not interested in. Wave tries to point your > attention to every update. > > I can see some good collaborative possibilities for small teams. As > it exists now, I don't see it as a new paradigm or protocol to > replace any existing web-based communication. > > On Dec 3, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Samir Nassar wrote: > >> On 12/3/09 11:15 AM, Zachary Johnson wrote: >>> That's interesting. I could see a lot of demand for a unified way >>> to create response content on community-based websites. >>> Especially if you didn't have to create another user login at each >>> one. >>> >> We hear the demands for a "unified way to create response content >> on community-based websites" but typically the problem to be solved >> isn't solvable by new and improved technologies, the problems are >> the human process. >> >> No amount of technology is going to really help the problem of >> people not being aware of where they are logged in to, what tool is >> appropriate for any given communication circumstance, or basic >> etiquette. Technology definitely won't inject common sense into >> people. >> >> If organizations spent half as much money on technology training, >> real-life modeling and drafting and maintaining communications >> (human) standards as they did chasing after newfangled whizbangs >> and doodads we'd be able to spend time on technology that actually >> facilitates solving problems. >> >> That said, Google Wave is a cool doodad, very whizbangy and stuff. >> >> -- >> Samir Nassar >> Web Production Assistant >> University of Minnesota Extension >> Extension Center for Family Development >> 405 Coffey Hall >> 1420 Eckles Ave >> Saint Paul, MN 55108 >> 612-625-8668 >> <snassar.vcf>