[wplug] Google Wave Aftermath
Terence J. Golightly
t.golightly at verizon.net
Tue Jan 5 14:04:42 EST 2010
Hi,
Did you post your thoughts to the google wave team?
Thanks
Terry
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 12:25 -0500, Ben Beige wrote:
> 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."
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