On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
Judson Dunn wrote:
I can't sell my luddite co-workers on the
idea of a blog, or a
wiki, but this is more obviously approachable. For more normal
web users, there are obviously a lot of advanced uses as well.
Google Wave combines many concepts, such as mail discussion
threads, Twitter-like short message discussions, instant
messaging, wiki-like edit history and an animated playback.
The idea of showing diffs since the user last viewed the same
wave, is very similar to Flagged revisions.
My guess is that this mix is too advanced for most users and will
be a hard sell, almost like an automobile with a joystick (like an
airplane) instead of a steering wheel.
Definitely all of that is too advanced, but I don't think people have
to use all of that. You can very easily think of it as email if you
aren't that tech savvy, but with a few new features that maybe you
don't understand that well. If there is a big voting button in an
email people will understand how that works, even if they don't
understand how the wave extension api works.
I also don't really think this is immediately relevant to wikipedia,
but it's interesting getting other wikipedians views on the topic. I
think we have a lot of experience in collaborative software. :)
Judson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cohesion