Google Wave

As you can see I've been watching Google Wave for some time now. With mixed emotions. I got my own wave invite (don beg me Juan) and it quickly degenerated to an argument between a close friend of mine and a chatbot. I can see that it is a good collaboration tool. I can see the point that it is merely another distraction in the office. Most of all what I saw, was an interesting new way to expand usability. The bot. Not the chatbot, she is just annoying. But if you ever find yourself asking the same questions over and over again, a chatbot is something you might want to look into. Their answers are all there, the chatbot can actually form them into a nicely packed form. "I have an Idea." "what is your Idea" "my Idea is A" "How would that work?" and so on. But the bot itself is a nice concept. You could write a bot to translate between English and Spanish and it would do the rest. NOW you can talk internationally with anyone. Write a bot that points out deadlines, and gives you heads up. A bot that makes you aware of timezones. Still can't make one that makes coffee.

"Hipcat, WTF is your point with all this"

It's another level of automation, to make life easier. In a setting that is... well.. more a distraction at this point, but still. They are currently only working with Java and Python. I have been looking for a challenge, perhaps this is it. But what do I personally think of the GW? It has potential, we shall wait and see.