I have not had a chance to play with Wave yet but attended a couple of demos this past weekend at Silicon Valley Code Camp. There was a lot of interest but my feeling was that much of it was simply because people are expecting the next "wow" thing from Google. This is what drew me to the presentations.
One thing that was not clear to me was whether Google Wave refers to the protocol/service and the app demoed is just an implementation of all the features supported, or whether the demoed app is actually "the" Wave. Another question I had was whether conversations, "waves", can be bookmarked. Anyone know? The Wave application demoed is interesting but extremely busy. The presenter mentioned that it was what email would be had it been invented today and I think they are right, it has a lot of transitions, color, animations and eye candy. It is very different than the zen-like design of the other Google tools & their homepage. I was not compelled by it but I think it was because I had the comparison to email in my head. If I had to interact with such an app as often as email it would stress me out. I am more interested in the protocol, the service described and the fact that the Wave app is built with Google Web Toolkit. The plugin and widget architecture made me think that the Wave app is closer to IRC reimplemented today rather than email. I would consider Wave as a tool to look into for implementing virtual classrooms but thats all I got so far. Maybe when I get my dev invite and can play with the Wave SDK more interesting ideas will emerge. - Ivo ________________________________________________________________ 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
