It is always exciting to experience some new cool tools, such as Google Wave, thanks again for Nick's nomination.
And it is so interesting to use it from the very beginning and to see how it develops even it is "buggy". Yesterday, I just saw they added "online status" to Wave contacts, although Nick mentioned that the status function had been implemented in Wave sandbox few months before.
Anyway, with high respect to Google's cutting edge technology, I still have some questions.
1. With real time support, how can Google servers handle so many sync requests? (So Google is only sending limited nominations.)
2. Wave is definitely the kind of tool and will be useless if nobody uses it, more participants in one wave, more collaboration and discussion will benefit the wave. BUT, it also makes the wave MESSY. Will there be some way to optimize?
3. What is the actual benefits from Wave than Gmail conversational mode?
I must say I'm so satisfied with Gmail conversational mode and see it as a very effective way to discuss. You can add anyone else to participate in the Wave, and you can also CC the mail to someone else to let him/her participate in your Gmail conversation.
The advantage I have figured out is that you can reply to a message IN the message context which makes it easier to response and read.
4. What is "Ping"?? I just don't get it! Is it like a private tunnel in a multi-user discussion environment?5. A great thing about Wave is that Wave supports SSL automatically which makes the communication much safer.
2 comments:
Comments on No.3
One of the advantages is that wave allows you to add gadgets, in which you can interact with participants in real time. The applications, I'm thinking of, include web conferencing, online games, etc..
Thanks for the very FIRST comment...
I agree that the gadgets can be very useful and please develop more gadgets for us, you software developers!!
Current gadgets are so poor, Sudoku, Yes/No vote, which is really USELESS.
Post a Comment