From: Aldric Giacomoni Date: 2009-12-15T01:06:51+09:00 Subject: Re: Google Wave: A new type of "Ruby Quiz" ? Rick Denatale wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Aldric Giacomoni > wrote: >> Google Wave is, according to Google, "the new email". It combines email, >> their idea of working together on same documents, and versioning >> control. It has lots of potential. > > So far, in my experience Google Wave has not worked very well. > > Part of the problem is that it's a confusing muddle of email, and > wiki. They claim to have (underlying?) version control, but it's not > obvious other than the ability to 'replay' the history of the wave, > with no obvious way to recover a previous state. > > A wave is really a document which in the wiki fashion, 'anyone can > edit', but I've found that users don't really understand that when > they edit a wave, they are affecting every wave participant's 'copy' > of the wave, since there really is only one copy. > > I set up a wave for a couple of technical groups, one accrued some > interesting contents, until someone, thinking of it as 'email' decided > to clean things up by deleting everything HE had already read. Which > deleted it for everyone. I agree - it's kind of a mish-mash at the moment, and I haven't much played with the "replay" function.. If we can go back and forth, we really should be able to fork, but it looks like we can't. Google is probably a bit like Microsoft when it comes to social experiments.. But googlewave is somewhat "mold-breaking" because it attempts to establish a new convention. This being said, as it is open source, there's a lot of potential for Good(tm) there. People need to learn, and that's true of everything.. :) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.