It's just like X, that's true! It's a veritable post-modern social networking tool. It combines the best of email, IM, web pages, blogs, wikis, and whatever you didn't think of yet...into a new domain for expression.
Yes it's chaotic, yes it's underpopulated as an information space, and yes some of the parts don't work completely yet. But I'm telling you that this will be the Twitter of next year. It won't replace or supplant Facebook or Twitter or LinkedIn. Each of those has a purpose. This is the tool that will begin to solidify the trend for convergence.
All of those things will begin to come together among the waves! Get someone to invite you. If you're a person who loves to be there first, this is for you.
Here's a place where my "vision" didn't pan out. Google has abandoned its commitment to Wave and perhaps for good reason. But I don't really think this is a good idea. I think this approach had potential, but it was going to take a couple of years before the thing panned out.
ReplyDeleteWave was ahead of its time, and the measure should never have been user acceptance. The migration to this enhanced form of communication would have taken time.
I just ran across this article again as I was reviewing old content here. Now that we have had some time to absorb the activity in this space, I can say that Slack turned out ultimately to be the likely successor to Google Wave. Now that Salesforce owns it, Slack is getting big-boy resources to further innovate and replace the old work surfaces of the past.
ReplyDeleteI no longer read email at all, except with a search filter and when I believe something useful might be in there. With Slack, an organic view of the conversations around me allows me to pick out what I need to see.
Discord and Mastodon are also beginning to emerge as popular communication and coordination tools.