Howdy world.
I’m writing this post during my second night shift in console (see previous post for where I work)
Everything’s quiet so I’m catching up on a few things I’ve been putting back. Yeah, I shouldn’t probably say so. Whatever.
I just had a nice…uhm…wave exchange with a friend I haven’t seen in a while, and I have to say that wave is cool but inadequate for real time talking. As an IM tool, I mean.
It does have a few advantages over regular IM (mantaining multiple conversations on different topics by replying to different blips, perfect for a professional digressionist like me :) ) but the interaction is still a little clunky. You can send a blip by pressing SHIFT+enter (avoiding adding a new line) but it’s still not as easy as it should be.
It’s a great tool for working collaboratively on a document (and that makes me wonder when will they port some of the wave code to Google Docs…) and a glorified gmail client for asynchronous communications.
Like most people in the IT world, I’m still trying to wrap my head around it. Having sent a few invites (I have one left and I’m not taking requests :) ) I can start using it with other people and see where ‘s the value for me.
I think the reason why everybody seems to find it intreaguing and hard to understand is that we’re used to consider editing, real time communication and asynchronous mail exchange three different domains, with different actions and languages.
I’m not sure mixing them together is a good idea but I definitely want to see where is this thing going.
Stay tuned, more to come.