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- BicBall, on 05/02/2009, -3/+58"the next big form of communication online: flowing, multi-person, real-time conversations."
Chat rooms? - diskoh, on 05/02/2009, -0/+46Next innovation: Speak to someone in another state with your voice using a completely independent device from your computer.
- mattyohe, on 05/02/2009, -4/+35Why is it so difficult to double-check a link's title prior to submission?
- chatzimcfee, on 05/02/2009, -4/+24"...just brought to market the next big form of communication online: flowing, multi-person, real-time conversations."
Hey Paul Buchheit, 1999 called and wants Chatrooms back! - marshallk, on 05/01/2009, -0/+17Full title is "The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is What's Next" and it's about the real-time element in FriendFeed (Buchheit's new startup) and other services.
- lewhich, on 05/02/2009, -0/+16" built the first version of Gmail in one day"
Who ever made the statement above has no knowledge of software development. "prototype" in one day ... maybe ... but prototypes are usually results of long though out process (while commuting, chillin!, drinking...etc.)
But again, Gmail is still in beta. - plunderphonics, on 05/02/2009, -2/+16The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-time Conversation is What's....
Ruining our Society. - ligyron, on 05/02/2009, -0/+13Didn't real-time conversation come first?
- MadHarvey, on 05/02/2009, -0/+12Hello 1999, I am representing 1988 in this dispute. They'd like to have a word with you over your claims...
- CalcProgrammer1, on 05/02/2009, -0/+11OMG that sounds so futuristic!!!! I want one!
- mr_ziy, on 05/02/2009, -1/+11This guy's a genius, thanks for Gmail!
- zydeco, on 05/02/2009, -1/+8Isn't it kind of funny to read all this hype about Twitter, Facebook status, etc, when you've been using IRC for a decade or two?
It almost seems like a step backwards. Go read the Twitter public timeline. It reads like efnet with everyone on the same channel. - bar10dr, on 05/02/2009, -0/+5In one day, yeah sure..
- chevriley, on 05/02/2009, -0/+5lazy much? put in a 5 day week now and again, would ya.
- Mizzike, on 05/02/2009, -0/+5Maybe because the submitter used a script? I don't know FI5HERMAN, but just guessing because all his friends are... you guessed it... Active Now!
- TrellSaracen, on 05/02/2009, -0/+5You must really love open source projects that never get past version 0.3.141592654
- michaelhood, on 05/02/2009, -1/+6@zydeco
And I'll keep on using IRC long after people forget what a "Tweet" was. - Cone, on 05/02/2009, -1/+5Predicting trends and making things function are two very different things.
I came to Gmail because it offered what no one else did at the time - a ton of space, and a lack of obstructive advertising. It really had nothing else at the beginning to make it better than any other browser-based email client / service. Gmail was more about the lack of limitations than the ideas behind it to me, and so I don't see any trend predicting credibility being gained here.
Especially, as others have commented, as much of the suggested future consists of chatrooms. - CalcProgrammer1, on 05/02/2009, -1/+5First we had real-time conversation (face to face), then we had delayed (letters), then we had real-time (telephone), then we had delayed (e-mail), then we had real-time (instant messaging), then we had delayed (text messages), then we had....yeah, both forms already exist, the method of communication used is really a personal choice. I like delayed communication, I like e-mail because I can check it all at once without having to be interrupted by it. It isn't good for urgent messages though. There is no single best form of communication.
- kezia1, on 05/02/2009, -0/+3Everything's cyclical.
- Feraldr00d, on 05/02/2009, -0/+3The only thing I don't like about the title is that it doesn't...
- tonmil, on 05/02/2009, -0/+3He should have spent two days building Gmail: The second day to make it more intuitive.
- HappyScrappy, on 05/02/2009, -0/+2I disagree, I don't think it's What's.
- yaosio, on 05/02/2009, -0/+2Amazing, the ability to talk to somebody in REAL TIME over the Internet. I've been talking to people in IRC for years about this and they say it's just not possible.
- fucter, on 05/02/2009, -1/+3real life coding:
code in 1 day.
Weeks of testing.
weeks of approval.
weeks of rollout.
i lied, sometimes you cant code in one day because the 'customer' changes their mind. oh, and the meetings
anyway, my point is coding something in one day is not a big deal - jeffko387, on 05/02/2009, -0/+2Thumbnail makes me think Jared Fogel made Gmail.
- bigteebo, on 05/02/2009, -0/+2We don't. Look how it turned livejournal into a mess of ASCII.
- spectecjr, on 05/02/2009, -0/+2The answer is, as you may have guessed, that he can't. No-one can.
http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/01/communica ...
"We did a lot of things wrong during the 2.5 years of pre-launch Gmail development, but one thing we did very right was to always have live code. The first version of Gmail was literally written in a day. It wasn't very impressive -- all I did was take the Google Groups (Usenet search) code (my previous project) and stuff my email into it -- but it was live and people could use it (to search my mail...). From that day until launch, every new feature went live immediately, and most new ideas were implemented as soon as possible. This resulted in a lot of churn -- we re-wrote the frontend about six times and the backend three times by launch -- but it meant that we had direct experience with all of the features. A lot of features seemed like great ideas, until we tried them. Other things seemed like they would be big problems or very confusing, but once they were in we forgot all about the theoretical problems." - michaelhood, on 05/02/2009, -0/+2Practice, code reuse, practice, and lastly practice.
- inactive, on 05/02/2009, -1/+3I don't have time to even check my Digg posts, nevermind other
- DJMattB241, on 05/02/2009, -0/+2Don't they have that? Isn't that what Google Talk is? It's built right into Gmail... I mean its not really twitter but it IS a "real-time conversation."
So... what do they pay this guy for then?
I predict that a social networking news site will be next. It's easy to predict things that already exist. - inactive, on 05/02/2009, -0/+1I'm perfectly happy with Google's higher standards and keeping products in beta longer, than other companies releasing a steaming pile of *****, but not having the "beta" tag.
- KRG12345, on 05/02/2009, -0/+1So.... when does it come out of beta?
- gubatron2, on 05/02/2009, -1/+2I'd love to pair code with this guy and see how the hell he can work so fast
- vertigelt, on 05/02/2009, -0/+1yeah, you forgot:
weeks of meetings
weeks of requirements documentation
weeks of meetings
weeks of design review
weeks of meetings
...
code in one day
... - tfletch, on 05/02/2009, -0/+1What's...
- michaelhood, on 05/02/2009, -0/+1This "herd u like" meme can write itself.
- GeekNurse, on 05/02/2009, -0/+1Teleconference FTW! (Tele-Arena also)
- digitalpencil, on 05/02/2009, -0/+1{ comment about the title running over }
- kristopf, on 05/02/2009, -0/+1I have multiple personality disorder, and each of my personalities keeps to it's own separate social network. This product is of no use to me.
- legaria, on 05/30/2009, -0/+1well, they just did (may 28) http://wave.google.com
yippie! - Mizzike, on 05/04/2009, -0/+1It's also incredibly easy to see that every single one of this person's submissions have an average of between 50-60 diggs, with some occasional outliers of stories that got dugg into the triple digits.
http://digg.com/users/FI5HERMAN/history/submission ...
This leads me to believe that it's just the good ol boys network and this story got enough diggs from other people to make popular. This is why top submitters (aka folks who are in the good ol boys network and who digg each others stories) control the content seen on digg. It's not as democratic as you might think, though I know the digg team's working on making it more fair. - CyclonusRIP, on 05/02/2009, -0/+1Just to make a very basic browser based email client would be pretty easy to accomplish in a day. To get to where they are now obviously takes a lot longer but to get the core functionality of an email client in a day is pretty easily doable.
- markstory, on 05/03/2009, -0/+1never. Real men don't ever leave beta.
- flossdaily, on 05/02/2009, -0/+1are we really surprised that a guy who thought an online email portal was something new now thinks that chatrooms are something new?
- motters, on 05/02/2009, -0/+1This just looks like an advertisment for FriendFeed
- scarwars, on 05/02/2009, -0/+1PartyLine > BBS > IRC > IM > GMail Chat
- diggydougie, on 05/02/2009, -0/+1It's called the telephone and we already have it.
- GeekNurse, on 05/02/2009, -0/+1What's with all the blog spam in the comments on Digg as of late?
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