I don't think that defaulting to public/private necessarily has to be the main reason for the success of a project.
Regardless of that, as x00 says, it should be up the UI to decide it. An IM-like wave UI would default to private, a wiki-like wave UI could default to public, a forum-like wave UI could default to certain group, etc. If WiaB ends up being a generic UI, I think the decission should be handled the same way as Google Wave: after creating the blip, you get asked to add any user/groups/public. Those three categories should be better differentiated visually. Maybe a separate icon for public, or something like that. On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:10, Vega <[email protected]> wrote: > The current default wave mode is "private", i.e. whenever a new wave > is created, it can be accessed only by the owner and then by > participants added by owner. > I think that this concept is not something that is obvious. It seems > to me that it evolved this way since originally, Wave was created as > email replacement. However, as we see, Wave is a lot more. It is a > platform for collaboration, and as such it should embrace its users to > share the content, not to hide it. Off course, if someone wants to > create private wave, or change the default settings - it should be > supported. > The official reason for Google Wave development discontinuation was > "lack of traction". I think the main reason for this - there's was > very little public content. Because in Google Wave everything is > private/limited until stated otherwise. Why not change it? Why not > make everything public until stated otherwise? > It may be a small change that makes a lot of difference. > For example, I guess everybody knows the Flckr service. The company > allowed users to upload images to its servers and share it. It wasn't > the only one at the time, however it was the first to make the images > public by default and it resulted in huge success. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Wave Protocol" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en. > > -- Saludos, Bruno González _______________________________________________ Jabber: stenyak AT gmail.com http://www.stenyak.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wave Protocol" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en.
