Google Wave
I feel the need to post about this. A bit of a review of Google Wave.
So, last night I got my GWave invite. It took about 8 or 9 days…. :( Anyway, I love it. And this is why:
- Extensions / Bots!!!!!!! (same sort of idea as Firefox extensions)
- IM / Docs / EMail hybrid… yay!
- Quite fast for smaller waves… once you get to about 100 blips, with 10 people, it can get a little slow :( That’ll change, I’m sure.
- AWESOME UI! Lots of people have criticized the scroll bars… I love them!
- Decentralized / embeddable nature.
- Reply in the middle of a blip. Love it.
- Collab. editing!!!
- The API is
quite well thought out… I will be using it in the future.
Anyway, I love this. It really is useful. And I’m sorry, but I probably won’t be able to give out many invites… I have to give some to my friends first!
Now, on the downside, there are quite a few bugs. However, this is only a preview… it’s not even “beta” quality yet, so it has exceeded my expectations. Also, I can’t figure out a good way to find the ID of a Wave. Perhaps someone will find a good way?
Also, why aren’t Microsoft and Yahoo making their own Wave systems? It’s kind of annoying… instead they want to make clones of Wave, with an incompatible wave (Well, I don’t know about Yahoo, but Microsoft certainly wants to). Compatibility is the key to success… welcome competition, as a way to improve. You know what, screw Microsoft… they claim that these products will “never catch on,” and then later make their own clone of it, which is 100% incompatible. Why, Microsoft, why? Anyway…
Overall, I think this system is quite promising, and that we’ll see a lot of users in the near future.
Edit: no client/server api? Ouch. What an oversight. Oh well, at least it’s getting fixed :D
