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Black Web 2.0: Mozilla Raindrop and Google Wave Totally Unrelated

  • Joshanderson · 2 weeks ago
    I suggest http://www.showdocument.com - good app for uploading documents and
    web meeting, web based and free of charge. - josh
  • Joshanderson · 2 weeks ago
    I suggest http://www.showdocument.com - good app for uploading documents and
    web meeting, web based and free of charge. - josh
  • Raphink · 1 week ago
    Interesting article. Like you stated, Raindrop has nearly nothing to do with Wave. I'm just wondering where you got that the Wave testers don't know what to do with it? Have you tested it yourself? I'm on a few public Waves that have polls about whether testers find it useful (that is, people who really tried it more than 1 day in a row). To the question "Do you think that Google Wave will be really useful to you any time soon? " posted in ContentWave (googlewave.com!w+q7l0bBbyA), 42 answered "Yes", 1 "No" and 10 "Maybe". I think that's a positive result :-)

    Wave is surely not ready for everybody (and for professional use for sure), but it's such a huge change that it needs time to mature. Wave is a new protocol, which changes a lot of things in our way to communicate, it's not a dashboard which supports 10 protocols.
  • Raphink · 1 week ago
    Said differently, I would say
    * Mozilla Raindrop's goal seems to _organize_ the profusion of protocols/networks/tools that already exist, but you still have to sign up for a Facebook account, a Twitter account, a YASN account and other tools if you want to use Raindrop's functionalities to the fullest. It's still a mess, just more organized. Raindrop may be open-source, but what happens behind the scene of each YASN is probably proprietary still.
    * Google Wave's goal is to _replace_ the profusion of protocols/networks/tools with one protocol, which is open-source, publicly documented and federated, and allows for many uses. In Google Wave, you can share your pictures and videos as you would with Facebook, you can organize meeting, you can write collaborative documentation, you can simply communicate as you would with email (except it's much easier for a new participant to understand what's happening there), you can chat, and many other things. The fact that people are still wondering what to do with does not mean that nothing can be done with it, rather that the amount of things that can be done is huge, and will lead to many innovations.