[Noisebridge-discuss] [POTENTIAL DRAMA] What do people think about GW? (was: Re: Google Wave : Invites)

[Glen Jarvis]

Here is a cut and paste from a previous email I sent on the subject. Forgive the cut-and-paste, but it seems mostly relevant and addresses what you're asking:

I think this is where wave is revolutionary. Does anyone else remember the Gopher, Archie, Veronica, etc. days?  When we had a text based system (gopher was a hierarchy  of text documents that one could navigate)? If one wanted a free ware program, we'd go to Archie to get it. If you wanted to search for different freeware programs, one would go to Veronica (it's been a long time, did I get that backwards)?  Or, if one wanted to get a graphic from a usenet group, we would capture the text from the usenet group (the uuencoded tagged portion) and then we'd paste the pieces together and manually uudecode it to get a graphic. That's a big *big* pain to be able to work -- but, that's how everyone worked... we were used to it... until something came along... a Mosaic browser... that allowed us to integrate our Gopher libraries (gopher://...), with images and files and even this new very simple hypertext language (http://...)....  

Wave is similar in the fact that it's very rich... it's editable by different people at the same time.. it's like one-stop-shopping in a communication format similar to how the web was suddenly one-stop-shopping for all of these images.  For example, the other day, a coworker, in IRC, pasted a link that had his code numbered (too much to paste into IRC). We were using two different mediums (external links to web pages, and IRC) to communicate. We're accustomed to it, but it's a lot of extra work than being able to chat directly in a wave, with text, that both can see edits on, and even syntax coloring..... we started using wave.. boom.. one-stop-shopping again...


Cheers

Glen


On Dec 10, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Michael Shiloh wrote:

> Forgive my ignorance.
> 
> I know very little about Google Wave, and I'm really curious: is 
> everyone jumping onto it, or do some people have reservations? If so, 
> what are they?
> 
> Convince me why I'm a fool for not asking Martin for an invite.
> 
> M
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