…and the Wave crashes
Just when I thought I’d found the perfect use for Google Wave, the surf gods conspire against me. The team I’m on has quickly become what my colleague has deemed “Wilful misusers of technology,” with email discussions commonly and rapidly deteriorating to one-line responses devoid of a greeting or farewell remark – even a name or first initial.
So musing that we’ve all begun to use email as though it were a group text chat (one-line responses and all), I suggested we try using Google Wave instead. After all it nicely and neatly keeps conversations in a lovely, convenient single thread that doesn’t weigh down the inbox – and even enables you to engage in nearly synchronous communication. What’s not to like?
Unfortunately that surboard may have pearled, with Wave having crashed at least 3 times on me in the last 30 minutes, culminating in the gorgeous and yet equally frustrating outage notification included seen above.
The moral of the story is, while I’m not certainly not ready to turn my back on Wave – it is still in the preview state – I’m now much more reluctant to rely upon it in any meaningful way. Give it time though, Slater wasn’t built in a day.
I just started testing out my wave invite today and just as I was starting to figure out how it works, I was booted. That’s ok. I’m intrigued and willing to grow with it… that’s the price of getting in on it early, right? I think it’s going to be worth it
@sukhjti: Yeah I’m willing to grow with it too. Software development is a tough business – especially when your program has been so incredibly hyped as Wave was. Really it’s a very, very new program and we have to expect it’s going to experience teething problems. In Wave’s case they’re likely to be particularly acute because of the incredible load on the system this sort of nearly-synchronous collaboration must entail.
BUT, I’m not so sure it’s ready to act as a service that’s heavily relied upon for production-level activities either. It will get there eventually, just perhaps not right now.
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