Foster Hagey

I’ve been rather underwhelmed by Google’s new multi-user-real-time-uber-collaboration-web3.0-(fill in buzz word here)-(fill in buzz word here)-(fill in buzz word here)-plat-o-form (got to remember the platform). It is just in the Preview stage, so none of the apps that they showed in the demo were working. All that cool stuff they were talking, “Just add Bloggy/tweety to the wave and now the wave posts to your blog/twitter feed.” None of it worked.

I was able to Wave (or blip as they call it) with a friend in Australia, but I could have also used email, IM, twitter, skype, facebook, or one of the other 50 ways to contact someone. I can see how this would be the killer app for contract negotiation, which is collaborative document creation. I could also see how if you are someone who has conversations across three or four different types of media this might be useful for keeping things organized in one place, but that seems a ways off.

If you are interested in trying Google Wave, and you don’t have an account yet, send me an email and I’ll invite you.