2009 Retrospective in Google Wave
December 21, 2009 7:41 PM Subscribe
Wave still useless.
posted by empath at 8:08 PM on December 21, 2009 [5 favorites]
posted by empath at 8:08 PM on December 21, 2009 [5 favorites]
I'd rather dook in my mouth than watch that again.
posted by foot at 8:18 PM on December 21, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by foot at 8:18 PM on December 21, 2009 [1 favorite]
Wave still all kinds of awesome synergy going forward.
posted by Maximian at 8:20 PM on December 21, 2009
posted by Maximian at 8:20 PM on December 21, 2009
I was really psyched to try Wave, and really disapointed with the reality of it. It seems fairly powerful, but I can't think of a situation to use it in that email, a cell phone, or facebook wouldn't work better for. That video didn't help much.
posted by codacorolla at 8:21 PM on December 21, 2009
posted by codacorolla at 8:21 PM on December 21, 2009
I don't know what google was thinking making wave a stand alone product. If they had slowly integrated it into gmail, I certainly would be using it a lot more.
posted by afu at 8:30 PM on December 21, 2009
posted by afu at 8:30 PM on December 21, 2009
Well, at least it didn't mention Tiger Woods.
posted by twoleftfeet at 8:57 PM on December 21, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by twoleftfeet at 8:57 PM on December 21, 2009 [1 favorite]
i wuz totally doing all the PHP for Google and they let me do this totally killeer video checkitout
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 8:59 PM on December 21, 2009
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 8:59 PM on December 21, 2009
Someone did something with Wave: now that is noteworthy. When I need more adware, I'll look it up.
posted by holycola at 9:09 PM on December 21, 2009
posted by holycola at 9:09 PM on December 21, 2009
I'd rather dook in my mouth than watch that again.
posted by P.o.B. at 9:19 PM on December 21, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by P.o.B. at 9:19 PM on December 21, 2009 [1 favorite]
I got only half way through. It just grew cheesier and cheesier. Terrible! Should have bolted at eight seconds like Burhanistan.
posted by damehex at 9:24 PM on December 21, 2009
posted by damehex at 9:24 PM on December 21, 2009
So that was Burhanistan I almost shoved over trying to race out of the emergency exit so I didn't have to watch anymore. Sorry dude!
posted by eyeballkid at 9:45 PM on December 21, 2009
posted by eyeballkid at 9:45 PM on December 21, 2009
The music was the worst part. Also the gratuitous use of second-person pronouns. Maybe you watched all those viral videos, but I didn't.
posted by mai at 9:48 PM on December 21, 2009
posted by mai at 9:48 PM on December 21, 2009
and I still don't really get wave.....
as with any software I guess you have to play with it to understand it and too few of my friends are on it yet. Those few of us with it have not really figured out how to take full advantage. If someone were to give a primer on the cool aspects of this I would be most appreciative.
Some very kind mefite gifted me an invite and I have a few left. If anyone needs one, just mefi-mail me, first come, first served, until they are gone.
posted by caddis at 9:58 PM on December 21, 2009
as with any software I guess you have to play with it to understand it and too few of my friends are on it yet. Those few of us with it have not really figured out how to take full advantage. If someone were to give a primer on the cool aspects of this I would be most appreciative.
Some very kind mefite gifted me an invite and I have a few left. If anyone needs one, just mefi-mail me, first come, first served, until they are gone.
posted by caddis at 9:58 PM on December 21, 2009
...and I still have no idea whatit is or what it's for.
Oh hi there, all the comments above!
posted by Artw at 10:08 PM on December 21, 2009
Oh hi there, all the comments above!
posted by Artw at 10:08 PM on December 21, 2009
Sweet jesus everyone in this thread needs a friggin hug.
I will hug you, people. I will hug you if you just turn down the snarky hipper-than-thou comments.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 10:16 PM on December 21, 2009 [2 favorites]
I will hug you, people. I will hug you if you just turn down the snarky hipper-than-thou comments.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 10:16 PM on December 21, 2009 [2 favorites]
Well, okay. Possibly I am close to breaking my own rule. On the other hand, come on, what is it? What is it for? Why does it so defy explanation as too it's actual utility?
Also this sort of thing could be much better with a decent soundtrack.
posted by Artw at 10:24 PM on December 21, 2009
Also this sort of thing could be much better with a decent soundtrack.
posted by Artw at 10:24 PM on December 21, 2009
Part of my issue with wave was lack of notification.
Problem solved:
googsystray
I will never miss another wave.
Likes the creative use of wave in the posted link!
posted by will wait 4 tanjents at 10:28 PM on December 21, 2009
Problem solved:
googsystray
I will never miss another wave.
Likes the creative use of wave in the posted link!
posted by will wait 4 tanjents at 10:28 PM on December 21, 2009
Sweet jesus everyone in this thread needs a friggin hug.
I will hug you, people. I will hug you if you just turn down the snarky hipper-than-thou comments.
I'm all down with a good hug, but that's not going to make the video suck less.
posted by eyeballkid at 10:56 PM on December 21, 2009
I will hug you, people. I will hug you if you just turn down the snarky hipper-than-thou comments.
I'm all down with a good hug, but that's not going to make the video suck less.
posted by eyeballkid at 10:56 PM on December 21, 2009
Does the Yankees winning the world series really count as a wonder? I mean, c'mon, this is way more of a wonder.
friggin' yankees
posted by The Bridge on the River Kai Ryssdal at 11:02 PM on December 21, 2009
friggin' yankees
posted by The Bridge on the River Kai Ryssdal at 11:02 PM on December 21, 2009
Yea, I was hoping to see an interesting use case, but most of that video didn't really seem to be 'done with wave'.
posted by jacalata at 11:06 PM on December 21, 2009
posted by jacalata at 11:06 PM on December 21, 2009
Notice they didn't explicitly highlight the FAIL of 2009.
posted by iamkimiam at 11:10 PM on December 21, 2009
posted by iamkimiam at 11:10 PM on December 21, 2009
I still don't understand the purpose of Google Wave
posted by AzzaMcKazza at 1:45 AM on December 22, 2009
posted by AzzaMcKazza at 1:45 AM on December 22, 2009
I still have no idea what [google wave] is or what it's for.
Didn't twitter start this way?
posted by sexymofo at 3:12 AM on December 22, 2009
Didn't twitter start this way?
posted by sexymofo at 3:12 AM on December 22, 2009
Yes, but on the other hand, I still have no idea what Twitter is for.
I suppose I know what it is, now, though.
posted by kyrademon at 3:15 AM on December 22, 2009
I suppose I know what it is, now, though.
posted by kyrademon at 3:15 AM on December 22, 2009
I've had wave for about a month now, and occasionally I'll log into it and...wonder why I did. In its defense, I haven't really tried very hard.
posted by zardoz at 3:33 AM on December 22, 2009
posted by zardoz at 3:33 AM on December 22, 2009
I still have no idea what [google wave] is or what it's for.
Didn't twitter start this way?
But twitter is possible to figure out.
posted by DU at 4:53 AM on December 22, 2009
Didn't twitter start this way?
But twitter is possible to figure out.
posted by DU at 4:53 AM on December 22, 2009
I still have no idea what [google wave] is or what it's for.
OK, you know those email conversations with 10 people in that get confusing really quickly because multiple people reply at the same time causing fragmentation and eventually utter incomprehensibility?
Wave solves that problem.
Also, it has some handy tools for sharing non-textual information (maps, etc etc). But it's primarily about replacing a certain kind of email, and it does that very well.
posted by dickasso at 5:25 AM on December 22, 2009
OK, you know those email conversations with 10 people in that get confusing really quickly because multiple people reply at the same time causing fragmentation and eventually utter incomprehensibility?
Wave solves that problem.
Also, it has some handy tools for sharing non-textual information (maps, etc etc). But it's primarily about replacing a certain kind of email, and it does that very well.
posted by dickasso at 5:25 AM on December 22, 2009
I have a camping trip with 10 people that I'm planning. It's gone much smoother on wave than it did in email.
posted by a robot made out of meat at 5:29 AM on December 22, 2009
posted by a robot made out of meat at 5:29 AM on December 22, 2009
Have we invented a genre yet for "bland video clips tied with random trendy things in an attempt to get people talking"? Because there're enough videos like that to be worth a snarky name.
Regardless of whether or not the video's content was interesting (My vote's that it wasn't), this didn't benefit at all from being in Wave. It's not like it was a particularly good demo of Wave, because like Wave itself, you have no goddamn clue what you're looking at as it's going on. (A group of friends and I tried using Wave to get work done, realized it was vastly overpowered and muddling, and switched back to Facebooking back and forth.)
posted by Rory Marinich at 5:44 AM on December 22, 2009
Regardless of whether or not the video's content was interesting (My vote's that it wasn't), this didn't benefit at all from being in Wave. It's not like it was a particularly good demo of Wave, because like Wave itself, you have no goddamn clue what you're looking at as it's going on. (A group of friends and I tried using Wave to get work done, realized it was vastly overpowered and muddling, and switched back to Facebooking back and forth.)
posted by Rory Marinich at 5:44 AM on December 22, 2009
I'd give it a go but with all that money they've got swilling around can't Google hire some decent UI designers first? Pretty (literally) please?
posted by i_cola at 6:17 AM on December 22, 2009
posted by i_cola at 6:17 AM on December 22, 2009
The entire point of wave is that it integrates a bunch of disparate communication methods seamlessly. So it is baffling why they've firewalled it off as completely as they have. It's a bit like if they'd invented those nextel walkie talkie phones but without the ability to call regular phones. Semi compelling if you can get everyone you ever want to talk to on the same page beforehand, but useless if you have to, say, call them to tell them to buy a special phone just to talk to you.
posted by breath at 6:56 AM on December 22, 2009
posted by breath at 6:56 AM on December 22, 2009
God, people, could wave be any earlier in it's beta period? I mean, give it a chance! It's going to take the better part of next year before enough people are using it even to give it a fair shot, let alone the fact that people will have to work out how to use it effectively.
posted by opsin at 7:12 AM on December 22, 2009
posted by opsin at 7:12 AM on December 22, 2009
Google Wave is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their waves wedged in their googles, or why.
posted by The Lurkers Support Me in Email at 8:44 AM on December 22, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by The Lurkers Support Me in Email at 8:44 AM on December 22, 2009 [1 favorite]
can't Google hire some decent UI designers first?
They did hire lots, but apparently it's not a designer-friendly company, so they quit.
posted by jacalata at 11:47 AM on December 22, 2009
They did hire lots, but apparently it's not a designer-friendly company, so they quit.
posted by jacalata at 11:47 AM on December 22, 2009
OK, you know those email conversations with 10 people in that get confusing really quickly because multiple people reply at the same time causing fragmentation and eventually utter incomprehensibility?
Aha, here's the reason Google Wave failed to catch on. It requires that early adopters (i.e. nerds) have friends!
posted by DU at 11:48 AM on December 22, 2009 [1 favorite]
Aha, here's the reason Google Wave failed to catch on. It requires that early adopters (i.e. nerds) have friends!
posted by DU at 11:48 AM on December 22, 2009 [1 favorite]
I think that Wave will probably not take off in a big way, but will be seen as ahead of its time. People will continue to integrate real-time collaboration into places that demand it, and eventually Wave as a stand-alone page that requires you to leave whatever you were actually doing behind will seem a bit jarring. Like, "you had to get off the phone to dial in to get internet?" Doing the sorts of streaming, embedding, mashing things you can do with a Wave will be considered "duh".
posted by breath at 1:04 PM on December 22, 2009
posted by breath at 1:04 PM on December 22, 2009
OK, you know those email conversations with 10 people in that get confusing really quickly because multiple people reply at the same time causing fragmentation and eventually utter incomprehensibility?
Except in Wave it happens when you get to 4 people.
posted by empath at 1:46 PM on December 22, 2009 [2 favorites]
Except in Wave it happens when you get to 4 people.
posted by empath at 1:46 PM on December 22, 2009 [2 favorites]
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