I'm catching up on my feeds following a 2-week vacation, and I keep hearing about this “Google Wave” thing. So finally I watched the video. And because I've been looking for a reason to try out the timer feature of org-mode, I made some timed notes to go along with the video.
0:01:31
HTML5 app… will forget you're looking at a pure
browser app.
0:02:02
Lars and Jens Rasmussen, behind Google Maps
0:04:06
Stephanie Hannon, project manager
0:05:11
email invented >40 years ago, before internet itself
0:05:47
what might email look like if it was invented today?
0:06:18
email systems collate related messages into
conversations
0:06:25
wave starts w/conversation = lightweight tree structure
of messages, and users participating.
0:06:40
conversation object = shared object, hosted on a server
somewhere.
0:07:38
built with Google Web Toolkit and HTML5
0:08:19
spelling auto-correction, like on iphone
0:09:35
reply to part of message by splitting it
0:10:35
Shiny.. firefly reference.
0:10:39
Character-by-character echo during IM.. speeds up
conversation.
0:12:47
adding new participants.. avoid the "cat and mouse"
where ppl reply to early one without all participants.
0:13:17
playback to see messages in order
0:14:10
GWT pronounced "gwit"
0:14:39
Private reply possible within the wave.
0:15:10
Any subtree can restrict access to subset of
participants.
