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October 20, 2009

Google Wave

I call this: computers,tech — Posted by KP @ 12:44 pm
Update: I have made a much more comprehensive post about Wave.

So after some begging and much waiting, I got myself an invite to Google Wave. I haven’t had much opportunity to try it out since as far as I know only one person I know has it. I’m looking forward to it being released to more people so I can start playing around with it. It does look like it would be very helpful for conversations about productions, especially since the nature of my upcoming tour has us rehearsing halfway across the country from where the designers and crew are, and from where the set is being built.

Here’s a cute YouTube video that I found which explains “3.5%” of the functionality of Google Wave, namely how it can replace and improve upon email.

Reservations

I like to keep things forever, and I tend to refer back to them over time. My email folder goes back to 2003 (I can’t remember what I did to lose my data from before that, but that’s when I got my Equity card, so it covers pretty much all major shows I’ve done). If I can manage not to screw anything up, I fully expect to be able to be able to read my emails from 2003 fifty years from now. If I can’t, something is wrong with the choices we have made technologically. I don’t have a problem with cloud computing, as long as I can have a copy of everything locally, in an open format that doesn’t depend upon one company staying in business and supporting that format for me to continue to be able to access and manipulate my data. If Google Wave catches on, I will need to know that it can be saved with the same certainty as email.

It’s still very much a beta, but I like the concept in general and I’m excited to see what it turns out to be useful for.


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  1. That’s one of the great things about wave. The platform is open source.

    You’ll be able to host your own server that can federate with all other wave servers and send messages across them. Kind of similar to the way email works now.

    With it being open source, it’s only a matter of time before someone writes a program to backup your wave account.

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    Comment by Tom — October 20, 2009 @ 9:29 pm

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