Google Wave Reviewed 365
Michael_Curator writes "Developers are finally getting their hands on the developer preview of Google's Wave, which means we can finally get some first-hand accounts of what it's really like to use, unfiltered by Google's own programmers. Ben Rometsch, a developer with U.K. Web development firm Solid State, blogged that, it's 'probably the most advanced application in a browser that I've seen.' Wave is like giant Web page onto which users can drag and drop any kind of object, including instant messaging and IRC [Internet Relay Client] clients, e-mail, and wikis, as well as gadgets like maps and video. All conversations, work product and applications are stored on remote servers — presumably forever. 'It's like real time email. On crack,' he wrote. And unlike the typically minimalist Google UI, 'It feels a lot more like a desktop application that just so happens to live in your browser.'" User molex333 has already written a Slashdot app and shares his initial reactions here.
Great! (Score:3, Funny)
on crack = A.D.D. = no work done = you are fired! (Score:1, Funny)
on crack = A.D.D. = no work done = you are fired!
And meanwhile... (Score:5, Funny)
There's a girlfriend wondering why he won't annnnnsweeeeer any of the phone calls, voice mails, text messages, emails, or she's sent in the last ten minutes.
Re:This may seem obvious to some, but... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Great! (Score:1, Funny)
You touched on my biggest reason for not buying into the hype about web applications. People are desperate to create another layer in the system via the web browser, encouraging developers to venture forth into a GUI-less world like the MS-DOS days where everyone must develop UI toolkits and other APIs from scratch, even though there are desktop APIs developed 20 years ago that were already written to do this stuff.
If the internet is supposed to be an app platform, why not develop a remote app delivery protocol for running native applications? Why rely on a web browser, which was first developed to view static, magazine-like pages that have links to other pages? That gets you thinking about other things that were supposed to deliver cross-platform remote apps in the past, like Java. But it didn't take over.
Re:More info, please... (Score:3, Funny)
Sharepoint is a way of "sort of" sharing Word >=2003 documents to "sort of" make a wiki.
Other than that (which isn't much that twiki can't do), it's basically a gigantic waste of everyone's time.
(I do work for Google)
Re:This may seem obvious to some, but... (Score:2, Funny)
"on crack" is hyperbole (Score:5, Funny)
hyperbole on meth
Re:Mod me paranoid (Score:3, Funny)
But between this and Google OS and everything else, google is getting dangerously capable of mass information collection for nefarious purposes (read: more than is currently possible). Ive been willing enough to forgive the search engine because of its usefulness, but I see Google as the biggest potential data mining operation in the world. Have an OS, web search, email, chat, and voice all have the central management of one company who for all we know could have been served on of those secret orders they cant even talk about that all data mussed be passed on to some crazy orwellian agency. Not saying its true, but it makes you wonder...now I'm off to finish building my patented alaskan off-the-grid living structure called an igloo.
It's safe to be with Microsoft [google.com], after all. Thanks for helping me calm down.
Re:Linguistic intensification (Score:3, Funny)
in that an ape's feces don't exactly move much at all.
I'd like to see you say that after an ape has just flung a steaming turd at you! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg2AezJo8aQ&feature=related [youtube.com]
Re:Great! (Score:5, Funny)
" Right now, my chain goes:
Operating System -> Windowing System -> Application
or
Operating System -> Windowing System -> Virtual Machine -> Application
Google Wave is several abstractions farther down the chain:
Operating System -> Windowing System -> Browser -> Virtual Machine -> Google Wave -> Application "
Yeah.
What I want is:
BIOS --> that shit they had in minority report
Re:Great! (Score:1, Funny)
Oh, please. No offense, but this is goofy marketing hype.
Re:this situation was created by Microsoft (Score:1, Funny)
You actually believe that slow, clunky JavaScript apps are somehow less "broken" than Windows? JavaScript apps don't even have a standard GUI. We've reverted to the MS-DOS days where every app has to roll its own stuff.
Re:Great! (Score:4, Funny)
I agree with everything you've said...except for the punch card guys. Screw the punch card guys, they deserved every scoff they got. Screw them!
Re:Sounds like g.ho.st (Score:3, Funny)
That's pretty weird. I've just had a play with it and I'm struggling to think what to do with it. What's particularly weird is that the desktop has a web browser. Why would you need a browser if you're already using a browser to view the desktop? Naturally, the first thing I did with it was go to http://g.ho.st/ [g.ho.st] and open a new guest account...
Re:Great! (Score:3, Funny)
Batshit
Insane
Old
Scientologist
???