The IT Skeptic - Comments for "Microsoft screws me, Google seduces me"

Inevitable

JamesFinister — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:01:41 +0000

I think it is inevitable that some of those channels will die...and that other alternatives will appear. Wave is very clunky as things stand, socially as well as technically. If it gets better it could well have a place as a replacement that combines the best of Twitter and Linkedin groups, but there is a danger it will also be abused in the same way as Linkedin groups, and be as irrelevant as much Twitter traffic is. I would agree with David and Aale that the ITSM debates on wave so far have been very productive though.

pull it all together

skeptic — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:01:46 +0000

so we have discussion going on in articles, papers, blogs, comments, forums, linkedin groups, twitter and now wave. Methinks a little rationalisation is going to be required. perhaps Wave can pull it all together

Joining the wave

JamesFinister — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:52:18 +0000

Rob, and others

Seriously I think there is some useful ITSM debate going on in Google wave,involving the usual suspects, whilst at the same time the time over head to process it is considerably less than with Twitter.

http://completewaveguide.com/

I'll wait

skeptic — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:21:44 +0000

Thanks David, but I have a Wave account. I've watched all the how-to videos and tried using it.

For now I'll wait until someone more inventive than me sees more in it than a realtime chat page with attachments

Invite available

DavidM — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:23:48 +0000

Rob,

As I mentioned in another note (CMDB thread), I have an invite I'll be happy to make available to you, if you'll commit to using it.

Btw, I don't know if Google Wave will be great. What I've said is that I can see lots of extraordinary possibilities and potential for the tool. I'm not in charge of execution or budgets, so as good as it looks, it may turn out to fizzle. :-)

David