Hi Andrew Yes they started to give out "nominations" to the current wave users (you can nominate people, but they currently don't get access right away, I think).
I guess Google is is primarily a developers/engineering company and that's probably how they understand the world. But to some extend it makes sense, because the more I think about it, the value of Google Wave doesn't lie in the functionality Google currently provides but in the vast possibilities of social rooms (waves) where one can add functionality at will, with bots, plugins and stuff. And to make Google Wave attractive they need a lot of good little plugins and bots. That's why a focus on developpers might make some sense. But for Google Wave to be succesful a lot has to happen, in my opinion, there are some things which are to tackle: - Importance of stuff, keeping the overview: With one inbox everything comes in with the same importance, wether it is a personal message, or some discussion which is crowded with people, you really have to organize yourself, because it feels very noisy if you don't, and currently this is not very well supported, it easily possible to organize, but not very easy. - the integration of additional functionality is realized in a strange way, those things called bots are great in a functional way, but a very strange concept to be understood by a common user. So, I would say, Google Wave is currently very interesting for developpers, but they really should work on supporting the goals of the users, which are probably not that well-defined currently. It's a new thing, it's very flexible, so I guess nobody is really quite sure what it is, and what it really will be :-) Cheers Roland On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Andrew Boyd <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Roland, > > Google have started handing out invites to non-developers? Two months ago > they were adamant that only developers were to play with Wave - I went on > record at the time as saying that was probably the silliest thing I'd ever > heard of, because it needed to produce things that would be useful to > everyone. > > The organiser of the local GDD wanted to advertise the developer-only > developer day via our local uxbookclub list, and couldn't see why I thought > it was inappropriate. Scary. > > Cheers, Andrew > > Andrew Boyd [email protected] > http://uxbookclub.org -- connect, read, discuss > > > > On 07/10/2009, at 12:45 AM, Roland Studer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 >> > ________________________________________________________________ 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
