I prefer to keep private as the default. If you accidentally keep confidential content private, the only loss is to you. If you accidentally leave confidential content public, you'll have a much larger problem at hand.
To give an example. I use google docs often, but in my main list I often see a few documents popping up of which I'm sure the person didn't mean to share it with *everyone*, and that's even in a medium when you have to choose to share. Imagine what would happen if gdocs would be public by default. Seeing as Wave is a safe way to be able to share private information (and in some cases is the reason why people continue to use it until now), I prefer to keep 'private' as default. On Dec 2, 12:10 pm, 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.
