Google Wave

[_zuul]

networking?

what?



chat is cool,

its main weakness is your friends need google wave for it to be fun. but that's kind of obvious.

 

[SovietSecrets]

Its all right if you have friends to talk to through it, but otherwise I find it pointless. THe lag during the convos is horrible.

 

[Low Key]

Never heard of it and not interested. I don't even use the accounts I have on myspace and facebook. AIM became useless after cell phones could text.

 

[Heathrow]

I don't suppose anyone has any invites to pass along? I've been looking for one.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

It's still in the public testing phase, though Google have been oddly secretive about it.

I don't even like Facebook. And I hate Google as a company.

Why hate Google as a company? (just out of interest)

Remember when Google bought YouTube? Remember what happened to YouTube after the buyout? Remember all the other video hosting sites? Remember how they didn't use to have tons of ads everywhere that said, "sponsored by Google?"

Google are totally profit-minded. That's fine if you're an investor, but not so great if you're a part of an Internet community that's about to get shafted or ad-spammed by them.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

Remember when Google bought YouTube? Remember what happened to YouTube after the buyout? Remember all the other video hosting sites? Remember how they didn't use to have tons of ads everywhere that said, "sponsored by Google?"

Google are totally profit-minded. That's fine if you're an investor, but not so great if you're a part of an Internet community that's about to get shafted or ad-spammed by them.

Google happen to be one of the few internet companies who have truly embraced open-source programming, and provide services for free which almost every other company would have charged for. That counts for something in my book, particularly in the case of Google Android, which is one of the only properly open-source mobile operating systems that's on the market right now. It's more than you can say for Apple, at least (seriously, screw the iPhone).

I never said I liked Apple. Or Microsoft.

But anyways, there's free and there's free. What Google makes in ad revenues alone probably more than covers their costs for developing open-source programs, not to mention any money they get for stuff they actually sell.

Besides, I get nervous when any company starts owning too much of anything. In the online arena, it seems like Google are slowly buying all of the most popular websites (or at least ad-spamming them).

One time I had a 30-second ad pop up in front of my 3-minute Viddler video I was watching. I just closed the window right there-that's freaking ridiculous. It's like showing somebody a three-hour movie but first forcing them to sit through 30 minutes of commercials they can't skip.

 

[Jirlond]

Its like msn but you can add as many people and as many different types of media to it as you want.

Google describe it as a document & a conversation - you can see real time changes to the document as they happen - great premise, but the people on my list dont seem to be using it much.

I want more friends

If you want an invite I have 6 left first come first served. PM Me.

 

[jonnosferatu]

It's still in the public testing phase, though Google have been oddly secretive about it.

I don't even like Facebook. And I hate Google as a company.

Why hate Google as a company? (just out of interest)

Remember when Google bought YouTube? Remember what happened to YouTube after the buyout? Remember all the other video hosting sites? Remember how they didn't use to have tons of ads everywhere that said, "sponsored by Google?"

Google are totally profit-minded. That's fine if you're an investor, but not so great if you're a part of an Internet community that's about to get shafted or ad-spammed by them.

Respectively:
No particularly (my interest in YouTube started largely after the buyout); not particularly (never really used video hosting before interest in YouTube)...

Most corporations are totally profit-minded; those that aren't tend to be either niche companies like EliteFTS (and they're very profit-minded - they just have really ****ing responsible staff and can afford to be nice to everyone because they know that virtually all of their customers will return) or out of business in fairly short order. I don't see how we're getting shafted by them, or how getting ad-spammed by them versus anyone else is a problem.

 

[Doomdiver]

A bit pointless at the moment to be honest. With alot work I can see it being good but at the moment it just seems like a decent proof of concept. Needs more features. Should be better for me personaly when they get the Android app out.

If anyone feels like trying it I can send them an invite, just PM me (as far as I know you need a google account).

 

[xXGeckoXx]

Hey All. Just wondering if anybody else has used Google's new product, Wave.

If you have, how do you think it stacks up against other services such as Facebook and AIM for conversations and networking?

Got it. So has most of the people I know. It's slow clunky and shit but the concepts good and By using 3rd party apps I have managed to create a quick chat window like AIM inside wave.

I love it but it's still way too primitive to be of any real quality.

 

[DigitalSushi]

Remember when Google bought YouTube? Remember what happened to YouTube after the buyout? Remember all the other video hosting sites? Remember how they didn't use to have tons of ads everywhere that said, "sponsored by Google?"

Google are totally profit-minded. That's fine if you're an investor, but not so great if you're a part of an Internet community that's about to get shafted or ad-spammed by them.

Google happen to be one of the few internet companies who have truly embraced open-source programming, and provide services for free which almost every other company would have charged for. That counts for something in my book, particularly in the case of Google Android, which is one of the only properly open-source mobile operating systems that's on the market right now. It's more than you can say for Apple, at least (seriously, screw the iPhone).

I call my iPhone "ehPhone", in your honour.

 

[MrTub]

I got it but never use it