[mdlug] Google Wave invites

[Aaron Kulkis]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 12:57 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>> rborromeo at the5spot.com wrote:
>>> I'll take one if you have one available. While everyone rips on the Wave 
>>> you don't know if it really sucks unless you really try it. I remember 
>>> when everyone said ICQ was a lame GUI IRC client.
>> What I really miss is powwow.
>> Powwow was basically Unix/Linux talk (character by character,
>> rather than line-by-line, transmission) with split screen
> 
> Actually just about everyone I've talked to about wave gives the
> opposite as a complaint - that wave is char-by-char rather than
> line-by-line.  It is not only distracting to the reader but not
> conducive of effective communication for the writer.  People want to
> compose a message, possibly rethink it, and then commit to sending it
> out into the world.  Who hasn't banged something into an IM line and
> then thought better of it?  In real-world applications the moments pause
> is important.
> 

Once you get used to it, it's IMMENSELY better.

Character by character has a real-time flavor to it, and people
spend FAR less time going back and correcting typos.  There are
no "dead air" pauses while the other person is typing a long
long long message before hitting enter, and most importantly,
with line-by-line, conversations often start to diverge into
two parallel conversations being held simultaneously, which soon
leads to massive confusion.

Having used both extensively, the advantages of line-by-line
are far outweighed by the disadvantages.

>> allowing simultaneous typing, but had the advantage that
>> unlike talk, it didn't require a talk deamon.
>> ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, etc are just glorified
>> versions of write(1) (which are "line at a time"
>> communications), only with network capability
> 
> I think that is a gross over simplification of what IM is.  The concept
> of "presence" is critical to every IM, that and much other meta-data
> associated with the actual simple passing of messages.
> 

Im just talking about the text itself.  Nothing else.

>>>>> I have 13 Google Wave invites available to anyone that would like one.
>>>>> Please reply off list to my email address and I will get one to you.
>