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Re: Google waves embedded

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I can't help but think that Google Wave missed out. They were no where close to being ready when they released it. Some of the no-brainer features like deleting waves and removing someone from a wave is just being introduced in the last few months. The speed was always an issue, but it only improved in the last few months. And the UI, while beautiful, is not intuitive (three panels as opposed to two panels in gmail?).

The whole concept is great, but their delivery failed. I am sure there always will be niche users who love wave and use it often but doubt it will ever have anywhere close to wide adoption like email.

Re: Google waves embedded

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post #2

I can't help but think that Google Wave missed out. They were no where close to being ready when they released it. Some of the no-brainer features like deleting waves and removing someone from a wave is just being introduced in the last few months. The speed was always an issue, but it only improved in the last few months. And the UI, while beautiful, is not intuitive (three panels as opposed to two panels in gmail?)…

Someone else will grow another service into a 70% Google Wave. Once that prepares people for the idea, something like this will succeed.

Re: Google waves embedded

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post #2

I can't help but think that Google Wave missed out. They were no where close to being ready when they released it. Some of the no-brainer features like deleting waves and removing someone from a wave is just being introduced in the last few months. The speed was always an issue, but it only improved in the last few months. And the UI, while beautiful, is not intuitive (three panels as opposed to two panels in gmail?)…

True indeed, have a look at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=160772&id=63091600...

Re: Google waves embedded

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post #2

I can't help but think that Google Wave missed out. They were no where close to being ready when they released it. Some of the no-brainer features like deleting waves and removing someone from a wave is just being introduced in the last few months. The speed was always an issue, but it only improved in the last few months. And the UI, while beautiful, is not intuitive (three panels as opposed to two panels in gmail?)…

Someone else will grow another service into a 70% Google Wave. Once that prepares people for the idea, something like this will succeed.

Who that someone will be ? Answer : Mr.Time will tell us ;)

Re: Google waves embedded

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post #2

I can't help but think that Google Wave missed out. They were no where close to being ready when they released it. Some of the no-brainer features like deleting waves and removing someone from a wave is just being introduced in the last few months. The speed was always an issue, but it only improved in the last few months. And the UI, while beautiful, is not intuitive (three panels as opposed to two panels in gmail?)…

I'm no sure it was properly launched yet, you still need an invite (although anyone whose interested already got in) and it has a 'preview' sticker, if they would tweak the UX and somehow integrate it with docs or something it could be a valuable addition, the potential is still there.

Re: Google waves embedded

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post #6
post #2

I can't help but think that Google Wave missed out. They were no where close to being ready when they released it. Some of the no-brainer features like deleting waves and removing someone from a wave is just being introduced in the last few months. The speed was always an issue, but it only improved in the last few months. And the UI, while beautiful, is not intuitive (three panels as opposed to two panels in gmail?)…

I'm no sure it was properly launched yet, you still need an invite (although anyone whose interested already got in) and it has a 'preview' sticker, if they would tweak the UX and somehow integrate it with docs or something it could be a valuable addition, the potential is still there.

A Google Wave enabled sidebar for group editing Google documents would be great. The prevalence of "widescreen" format for monitors actually makes this more comfortable.

Re: Google waves embedded

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post #2

I can't help but think that Google Wave missed out. They were no where close to being ready when they released it. Some of the no-brainer features like deleting waves and removing someone from a wave is just being introduced in the last few months. The speed was always an issue, but it only improved in the last few months. And the UI, while beautiful, is not intuitive (three panels as opposed to two panels in gmail?)…

Performance is still awfully horrible.

Just opening that page causes Safari to hang for quite a while, and memory use to shoot up from ~40M to ~670M. That's not even close to being acceptable.

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