Google WaveTF?
Gonna keep this short.
If somehow you’ve been dead online for the past few days, Google started to invite people to use Google Wave (http://wave.google.com); I didn’t ask for an invite, but they invited me. To my surprise, the only thing I could think of when I looked at this… thing, was “What’s it giving me?”… the next thought was, “Why is everyone wanting me to invite them to this thing?”.
It’s a mess of information, a collaborative messaging and sharing system, and the interface allows you to see typos on the fly when creating a “Wave” that others are associated with. Yippy. Perhaps the eager developer in me was expecting “The Jesus” of applications since everyone’s been buzzing about Google Wave for months. Now that I have it, I don’t really think it’s the next greatest internet thing evar!!!11 – more like, a step in a direction that might get somewhere later. It’s either that, or I’m just too old school with emailing and actually not being allergic to clicking my mouse to see video & things that my friends send to me. Dunno.
Overall, I’m not utterly floored. I would, however, like to see some of the UI features in Wave be ported to Gmail. I have 7 invites left. Entice me to send you one, and I’ll think about it, only to share the pain of trying to understand WTF you’re looking at with me, I reckon.
