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- robwhite1979, on 10/10/2009, -0/+25After watching the 8 minute video on youtube Wave makes total sense... I can't wait to get my invite and give it a whirl... All I know for sure is that it's either gonna make online life a lot easier, or a lot more complicated. :P
- GoingPostal, on 10/11/2009, -0/+25In simplest terms, Google Wave is an online collaboration tool.
- wettestwillie, on 10/11/2009, -0/+14I love polyphonic renditions of songs by previously relevant artists!
- ArrowheadAddict, on 10/10/2009, -6/+20I think Google Wave has flop written all over it. Too complicated for the average person.
- Jus2Gud, on 10/11/2009, -1/+9Average Bing user? There's nothing that makes the average Google user smarter, as well as that I think Arrowhead has a perfectly good point, although if it ties in well with normal e-mail I can see it being adopted slowly for people who'd gain a lot by using it and also lose nothing by switching to it.
- kaosethema, on 10/11/2009, -0/+6i get it.
WTF is so complicated? - nouman1989, on 10/10/2009, -0/+6Isn't twitter on top of that list ?
- xngk, on 10/11/2009, -1/+6true 1337s watch the 1:20:00 video on the website.
- cfuse, on 10/11/2009, -0/+4I could, and so could you - and that's my point.
If I said "Digg is a newspaper where the readers choose and comment on the stories" that would be something that grandma would understand. She wouldn't know every bit of information about Digg, but she's have a solid understanding of the paradigm.
As for explaining to noobs - who said anything about that? I would consider an explanation of wave that is congruent to explaining Facebook as "Myspace without the music" to be acceptable. Just as email is to real world mail, so to is wave to what? If it cannot be easily explained by the people who made it to a highly technical audience, then what hope do they have of bringing in the masses?
The best explanation I've heard so far for wave came from an unrelated third party who described it as centrally hosted and editable email messages. That's as close to a paradigm I've seen (that actually makes sense and reflects the concept without being a ***** essay or 2 hour presentation).
I'm so sick of being kicked in the nuts by Google fans because I've got the temerity to ask for an executive summary. That isn't an unreasonable question. - confoundedjoe, on 10/11/2009, -0/+4I think most people will be using wave embedded into websites via the API.
- LightningBoltU, on 10/11/2009, -0/+3I totally understand it, but I just have a hard time being convinced that something that awesome really exists.
- WishItWerePaul, on 10/11/2009, -0/+3i have an account and i had no problem understanding it whatsoever.
however, i do have to admit i'm somewhat underwhelmed by it. probably mostly due to the amount of hype i've listened to in advance, but nonetheless this is a very promising product and if anyone, google is in a position to introduce a new mode of collaboration like that.
_definitely_ goes into my toolbox along w/ gmail, twitter and many other tools of communication. - CreamyGoodness, on 10/11/2009, -0/+3Follow the MP3 rule and the masses will adopt - http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/magazin ...
If you want to be an effective service, cheap and easy rule the roost. Wave will eventually catch on, Google knows this, but it needs to make it cheap (which it has) and easy. I think they will, although I'm still one of the people that HATES the way Gmail conversations are laid out. I get it, but I want CHOICE. - robwhite1979, on 10/11/2009, -0/+3Could you explain Digg to a total noob in 15 seconds? How about Facebook? Didn't think so.
- geoken, on 10/11/2009, -0/+3It's like email except the conversation is remotely hosted. when you read mail you're reading a remotely hosted conversion, when you send a message your updating a remote conversation. Seems pretty straight forward.
- teamr, on 10/11/2009, -0/+3Google wave looks great and all, but it won't be the next mainstream adaptation of email or instant messaging. It's way too complex. It'll be another cool tool that us techies use to feel superior to everyone else, and that's about it.
- Betty, on 10/11/2009, -0/+3The average user doesn't need to fully understand it, most don't fully understand what they currently use.
Google just need to convince people that it's better than what they currently use for X and Y and people will adopt it, what they are doing first is getting the tech community to adopt it first so that it is actually better. Once the tech community adopts it they can market it for the average person. - xngk, on 10/11/2009, -1/+3You have no way to know that unless you are one of the few testing it currently.
Wave is ambitious and will probably be trimmed down significantly...but I doubt it will "flop". Even if it doesn't do well with the masses, technology shouldn't cater to the "average" all the time. - MrMeikel, on 10/11/2009, -3/+5Dugg for Avril
- roxgod666, on 10/11/2009, -2/+4What? Please don't tell me you're judging people by the search engine they use.
- thezoner, on 10/10/2009, -0/+2I understood the Chef just fine!
- eljitto, on 10/11/2009, -0/+2I understood most of this, but the thing is people who use hotmail or Yahoo mail and not Gmail (which rocks) will not be able to use this (most won't know about it) and some of the Gmail users won't know what it is.\
I probably understood this cause i read an article on TIME about it... - JQP123, on 10/11/2009, -0/+2"I'm so sick of being kicked in the nuts by Google fans because I've got the temerity to ask for an executive summary. That isn't an unreasonable question."
Apparently, "digg" is just another word for "Google love fest". Anything less than gushing praise for all things Google is likely to evoke this sort of response. Dissent will not be tolerated. - maccam94, on 10/11/2009, -0/+2Google Wave is essentially going to be the "Web Operating System" we've been hearing about for years. It handles all of your communications, it will integrate all of the google web apps, you can install new web apps into it, and it will show all of your social websites in a cohesive interface.
- MistaMatt90, on 10/11/2009, -0/+2MIDI
- scy1192, on 10/11/2009, -0/+2I read the first paragraph in Google Wave's Wikipedia article after having no prior knowledge of the service. Now I understand it.
- wachris, on 10/11/2009, -0/+1DNRTFA but I'm guessing you don't mean Aphex Twin.
- Shoreyline, on 10/11/2009, -6/+7Maybe for your average Bing user who wants all their "decisions" made for them, yes.
- ManUnitdFan, on 10/11/2009, -0/+1I'll digg it for bringing back midi music, but not so much for Avril.
- roxgod666, on 10/11/2009, -0/+1But that's supposedly only 3% of what Wave will do.
- Grazzit, on 10/12/2009, -0/+1basically already have all the usefulness of wave already, it's called a forum
- geoken, on 10/11/2009, -0/+1Wave is being explained in an 8 minute video because they feel, at this stage in development, anyone interested in Wave is probably going to care about all the 8-minute-filling details.
- Jaysunli, on 10/11/2009, -0/+1Just seems like where Facebook is heading.
- WeirdEdsel, on 10/11/2009, -0/+1you're*
- geoken, on 10/11/2009, -0/+1That's the core of what Wave will do.
There are a lot of other things it can do, but they're all logical extensions of having a hosted conversation. It's like trying to explain what Digg is by talking about all the uses of the Digg API (ie. top ranked videos on some video sharing site). If you described Google maps by showing examples of every app that used the maps API in some creative way it would seem just as confusing. - JQP123, on 10/11/2009, -0/+1A 15 second explanation; based on what I've learned thus far (Disclaimer: I haven't used it. I feel compelled to point this out after some whacko blasted me yesterday for "reviewing" it.).
Wave is "chat meets email".
It is a documented conversation (like email) but it is created and edited live, in real time with the ability for multiple individuals to engage in the conversation/editing, each of which can see what the others are doing/typing as they do it. They are lots of ancillary features such as the ability to embed images and other documents within the conversation.
It looks like an interesting collaboration tool but I don't see it as a replacement for email. - gwinerreniwg, on 10/12/2009, -0/+1This would be a wonderful replacement for the facebook posting/hosting engine, actually
- artdecaderoo, on 10/11/2009, -0/+0googlewave is easy, they just presented it in the most esoteric and awful way possible.
- joeybuzzsaw, on 10/12/2009, -0/+0Interestingly enough, men are easier to understand than Google Wave, but Google Wave is easier to understand than women.
- bradleyland, on 10/11/2009, -1/+1Well, with any luck, you won't have to collaborate with the average person.
- givemesnow, on 10/11/2009, -3/+0Buried for being a dumbass
- cfuse, on 10/11/2009, -6/+28 minutes is too long. 30 seconds is the max time they should need to explain it, 15 seconds would be ideal.
So far, they have been unable to explain the concept quickly and simply - and that's a problem if they expect people to embrace it. - givemesnow, on 10/11/2009, -6/+2Google Wave is so hard to understand I don't even understand this article about how hard Google Wave is to understand :(
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