Re: [Dorset] Google Wave

2009-06-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Victor, > Seems like others have had the same issue ("80 minutes!?") as there is > a "Readers' Digest Condensed" version (more just someone's selected > highlights, actually) at [1]. Although TBH I don't know how useful the > video snippets would be on their own if you hadn't already seen the

Re: [Dorset] Google Wave

2009-06-11 Thread Victor Churchill
2009/6/10 Ralph Corderoy : > > I've not managed to do that, even now.  Partly it's the amount of time > required, and partly that I tend to find videos provide a low signal to > noise and I'm stuck at their speed.  The written word can be more useful > and I've just read http://mashable.com/2009/05

Re: [Dorset] Google Wave

2009-06-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > For those who haven't spotted this yet, and if you have the time, (1 > hr 20 mins actually), get over to http://wave.google.com/ and have a > look at Google's latest product, due for launch later this year. I've not managed to do that, even now. Partly it's the amount of time requir

Re: [Dorset] Google Wave

2009-06-07 Thread Nathan Baum
On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 17:29 +0100, Peter Merchant wrote: > But he doesn't answer the question about who is going to pay to store > all this stuff that we do with Wave, who owns it, and how long it has to > be kept for legal reasons. That depends where it's stored. Wave is a distributed system, l

Re: [Dorset] Google Wave

2009-06-07 Thread Peter Merchant
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 22:24 +0100, Andrew Morgan wrote: > Terry Coles wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 Jun 2009, Victor Churchill wrote: > > > >> I did find myself wondering how well it would hold up in a less > >> favourable network environment: whether the latency might become a > >> problem. > >>

Re: [Dorset] Google Wave

2009-06-04 Thread Andrew Morgan
Terry Coles wrote: > On Tuesday 02 Jun 2009, Victor Churchill wrote: > >> I did find myself wondering how well it would hold up in a less >> favourable network environment: whether the latency might become a >> problem. >> > > Two things here. First of all, networks are beginning to get fa

Re: [Dorset] Google Wave

2009-06-04 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday 02 Jun 2009, Victor Churchill wrote: > I did find myself wondering how well it would hold up in a less > favourable network environment: whether the latency might become a > problem. Two things here. First of all, networks are beginning to get faster and more reliable, so in time I be

Re: [Dorset] Google Wave

2009-06-02 Thread Matt Pardoe
I can see it being used on company intranets where security and network spped won't be an issue and features such as colaborative editing etc will be more useful. I had some concerns about everything being sored on another server if using it over the internet and what the security would be like, on

Re: [Dorset] Google Wave

2009-06-02 Thread Chris Dennis
Simon P Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:47:22 +0100, Victor Churchill > wrote: >> I did find myself wondering how well it would hold up in a less >> favourable network environment: whether the latency might become a >> problem. >> > > This is something that concerned me. There is more and m

Re: [Dorset] Google Wave

2009-06-02 Thread Simon P Smith
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:47:22 +0100, Victor Churchill wrote: > > I did find myself wondering how well it would hold up in a less > favourable network environment: whether the latency might become a > problem. > This is something that concerned me. There is more and more reliance on the network

Re: [Dorset] Google Wave

2009-06-02 Thread Victor Churchill
Slightly surprised there hasn't been more noise about this. Maybe they should have made a quicker 'highlights' video since possibly the length might put a lot of potential viewers off. I went from 'Wow' to 'OK, and..' to 'hmm... dunno' during the course of the talk & demo. Yes there is some very n

Re: [Dorset] Google Wave

2009-05-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 29 May 2009, Terry Coles wrote: > The good news is that most of the code is going to be Open Sourced and the > protocols are open too. Google have already been collaborating with two > other organisations who have produced their own clients for this. They say > that they gained so much

Re: [Dorset] Google Wave

2009-05-29 Thread Sean Gibbins
Terry Coles wrote: > So have a look and let us know what you think of it. > > Stunning - I watched it earlier - they've put a massive amount of work and thought into it and I reckon it'll be massive once folk get their collective, collaborative heads around it. Sean -- www.funkygibbins.me.uk

[Dorset] Google Wave

2009-05-29 Thread Terry Coles
For those who haven't spotted this yet, and if you have the time, (1 hr 20 mins actually), get over to http://wave.google.com/ and have a look at Google's latest product, due for launch later this year. The video is in high definition and is well worth watching all the way through, otherwise yo