tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4943699976017744351.post2587686809610878172..comments2023-04-05T06:01:07.897-07:00Comments on arnab's diary: Google Wave...boring but brilliant!Arnab Dashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08486894038203569106noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4943699976017744351.post-65441585411641564342009-12-10T13:51:52.000-08:002009-12-10T13:51:52.000-08:00>> "The best part of it is, you can cha...>> "The best part of it is, you can chat here in ‘real-time’ and I mean ‘real-time’! You can see the other person type the words as the chat goes on! Should suffice to say that this is bloody brilliant! I dont think there’s anything like this anywhere on the web, and I firmly believe this is what net chats in the future will look like."<br><br>Real time Collaborative text editing has been in place for years now..examples include SynchroEdit, JotSpot, MobWrite and many others.. (Google is currently buying these out one by one :D)<br><br>And I really didn't find it that great a feature.. (How does it help to mess up what the other guy has written).. I dont see where this is going to be helpful.. (apart from that, that it feels kiddishly cool to be doing simultaneous editing). Its pretty slow too.<br>The characters appear very slowly on the screen and they have just taken too much trouble against the "advantage" that it looks funny to see the characters unfold one by one.<br><br>And yeah.. its bloody brilliant.. the first ever instant messenger "talk",that came as a unix application had the character by character posting feature (i guess it released in 1980s).. that does away with the "Brilliance" part of google. All that remains is the (*yawn*) "Boring"..<br><br>BTW, i am one of those "Google haters" (as you wud have guessed by now :P)Manojithttp://ghatak.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4943699976017744351.post-5396999366059120902010-01-25T16:44:14.000-08:002010-01-25T16:44:14.000-08:00I agree, Google wave is kind of boring. I got an i...I agree, Google wave is kind of boring. I got an invite a few months ago. I logged in to see what the whole hype was all about and i was underwhelmed.<br><br>But I do not hate google, they are just being a company which nurtures a monopolistic ambition. I mean every true capitalist does. I find some of their products fantastic. Gmail for instance, that is what all email systems should be like. I may be a bit biased since i earn a few hundred thousand INRs a month, thanks to google. And I shouldnot be complaining.<br><br>But it is really alarming to have one giant corporation with monopolistic ambitions, controlling so much data and having so much influence. As somebody famous once said, Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.Dushtu chelenoreply@blogger.com