I got a Google Wave invite today, which I had really been hoping for, for some time now. I was really curious to see, what was it that this new Google "technology", if-you-will, could do.
Truthfully, Google Wave is not a new technology, but a new way of communicating and collaborating online using a new and expandablee interface. The interface in some ways is like an email client or a chat client, where you pick someone to talk to and send them a message. However, it's more than just that. You can send them a message, watch them reply (complete with typing mistakes/corrections), correct their spelling, bring up a map that you can both see AT THE SAME TIME and edit AT THE SAME TIME, etc., etc. The possibilities are endless, I am sure, but the key is simultaneous communication and collaboration.
I am not doing it justice at all, but consider a chat program where you type, the other person types, back-and-forth, over-and-over. Or email. You send, wait, read, send, wait, read... Google Wave takes out the waiting part in some cases, so that you can immediately converse, share pictures, videos, ideas all online no matter how far apart the two (or more!) parties are.
Right now, it's in the invite only stage, so you have to wait for someonee you know with an invite to get you in, but once in, you can look at the different gadgets availalbe and start doing things together. There aren't a lot of useful gadgets yet, but there are a few interesting ones out there.
Once I get my invitations, I will start handing them out and see just what kind of fun I can have wiith Google Wave. For now, I only know the person who sent me the invite, so I will do what I can, but it will be quite limited for the time being.
Get into it, y'all! And Have Fun!!!
Cheers!
Slyde
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Yeah, I lie...
Sometimes, that is. Not often, and not on purpose, but occassionally I lie about things. Like that previous post: "I'm really back!" Sure you are, Slyde. Sure you are!
I meant to be back, and I meant to stay here and put up more posts, but for some reason I forgot, or got too busy doing other things. But now, for now at least, I am back. For tonight. I won't guarantee anything beyond that.
I should. I love to write, even if it is in my first-person, conversational type mode that I do, but it is always good practice to sit down, start typing away on the computer and just bang out a few ideas about things. Like music, or writing, or my family, or general daily goings-on. For example, right now. What am I really talking about? Nothing! Absolutely nothing. But, if you are still here reading, it is apparently interesting enough to make you not turn away. At least... not yet!
So what was it I had hoped to accomplish with this blog? Not a whole lot really. Maybe a dialog for other people to read about things I have to say and start talking and thinking about things. Debate is a great way for your brain to keep active, and deciding "what is my opinion about something, and why" is a great way to get your mind active. I don't expect everyone to agree with me. Hell, I hope at least a few people don't, cuz what kind of fun would that be? There's no debate, no application of thought, no sharing of ideas. I want to hear other people's ideas about things, and I want to know what they have to say about them.
Alas, I have failed in that pursuit. Barely anyone has read this blog, let alone commented enough to start any kind of lively - but polite! - debate. So, maybe that's part of the reason I never come back. Maybe those things that I have to say that I think are so interesting, really aren't that interesting after all. And thus, I start a conversation that, ultimately, is with myself and to myself. I mean, granted, that's generally how I do it anyway, but it would be nice if, after my little soliloquy is done, someone might have something to say, like "Slyde, you're a dough-head! That's not true; here's the truth for ya..."
Ah well. C'est la vie, as they say in the movies.
Maybe I'll come back tomorrow.
Maybe next week... or, maybe next year. Who knows.
Say something, and maybe it'll be sooner!
Or, maybe I am just talking to myself... hello? Is there anybody out there? Helllooooooooo....?
Cheers!
Slyde
I meant to be back, and I meant to stay here and put up more posts, but for some reason I forgot, or got too busy doing other things. But now, for now at least, I am back. For tonight. I won't guarantee anything beyond that.
I should. I love to write, even if it is in my first-person, conversational type mode that I do, but it is always good practice to sit down, start typing away on the computer and just bang out a few ideas about things. Like music, or writing, or my family, or general daily goings-on. For example, right now. What am I really talking about? Nothing! Absolutely nothing. But, if you are still here reading, it is apparently interesting enough to make you not turn away. At least... not yet!
So what was it I had hoped to accomplish with this blog? Not a whole lot really. Maybe a dialog for other people to read about things I have to say and start talking and thinking about things. Debate is a great way for your brain to keep active, and deciding "what is my opinion about something, and why" is a great way to get your mind active. I don't expect everyone to agree with me. Hell, I hope at least a few people don't, cuz what kind of fun would that be? There's no debate, no application of thought, no sharing of ideas. I want to hear other people's ideas about things, and I want to know what they have to say about them.
Alas, I have failed in that pursuit. Barely anyone has read this blog, let alone commented enough to start any kind of lively - but polite! - debate. So, maybe that's part of the reason I never come back. Maybe those things that I have to say that I think are so interesting, really aren't that interesting after all. And thus, I start a conversation that, ultimately, is with myself and to myself. I mean, granted, that's generally how I do it anyway, but it would be nice if, after my little soliloquy is done, someone might have something to say, like "Slyde, you're a dough-head! That's not true; here's the truth for ya..."
Ah well. C'est la vie, as they say in the movies.
Maybe I'll come back tomorrow.
Maybe next week... or, maybe next year. Who knows.
Say something, and maybe it'll be sooner!
Or, maybe I am just talking to myself... hello? Is there anybody out there? Helllooooooooo....?
Cheers!
Slyde
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