[wplug] Google Wave Aftermath

[Ben Beige]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Michael Semcheski
<mhsemcheski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, after the flurry of Google Wave activity yesterday, I thought
> I'd share some thoughts on it.
>
> 1) The user interface is clunky.  I find myself using the mouse a lot
> more than I'd like.

Needs work, and perhaps a mobile interface to at least do original
posts, and view a snapshot of the "current" wave

> 2) For realtime collaboration, its pretty clunky.  I like to be
> notified (perhaps a tray icon is best) of changes.

There is a firefox extension for this

> 3) I have way too many contacts.  I use gmail for mailing list
> reading, and there were all kinds of people that were my "contacts"
> who just happen to be on the same mailing lists.

I have the habit of cleaning mine out, but yeah I had a few people I
was like who the heck is this.

> 4) Anybody who's done rich text editing in a web browser now and 5 or
> 10 years ago knows that the widgets and tools have gotten a lot
> better.  But they still suck.

True enough

> There are positive sides - its got potential - but it needs to replace
> something rather than be "one more thing you have to check every day."