Hi Got my invite for Google Wave today, and played around with it a little. It's hard to judge it that early, and I only participated in public discussions, no private ones.
Right now Google Wave feels somewhat messy to me, the combination of wiki-like features, chat and forum (threaded conversations) is somewhat confusing. Maybe this is just at first. The way the conversations are presented in the inbox seem to focus a lot on the topics, less on the people. People are only presented by their picture, this could become very confusing, if someone changes his/her picture. Also I think the direct combination of wiki and conversation doesn't work too well. Some content is wiki like, should be updated, should be somewhat permanent, like a packing list for a camping trip, other content is pure conversation. The more permanent content has the same weight as conversational content and has no extra indicator that it's there to stay. I think the paradigm stackoverflow.com uses, works better for the combination of information & conversation. What do you think? This is as said a very early impression, as I haven't done too much with google wave yet, and also don't forget how young this product is, it will still evolve. That said, I see huge potential in the plugin structure, for example think of tools to fix a date (like doodle.com) embeded direclty into the conversation. Looking forward to hear your thoughts! Roland Studer ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
