On September 30, Google sent out 100,000 invites to their new Google Wave service. The service—something of a mix between a wiki, Instant Messaging, email, and a threaded forum—aims to revolutionise the way people talk and collaborate online. I won’t write too much about what Wave is: there are plenty of guides out there for that, instead I’d like to focus on my thoughts on the platform.
Google Wave is chaotic. Everyone’s new to it all at once, which means everyone’s trying out all the features, bots, and widgets all at once. This means there’s certainly a lot going on and it can be very exciting, but it’s very difficult to keep track of and it’s entirely too easy to break things. (more…)