google wave and collaborative tools
My initial reaction to the Google Wave demo at I/O was luke warm. C’mon, it’s just a nifty UI over publish/subscribe messaging! Along with pubsub, the federated aspect of Wave—the seamless integration of users across multiple domains—is just standing on top of vanilla XMPP. From a cynical point of view, Wave is [...]
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microblogging at work: workstreams and artifact streams
One of the reasons that Twitter has become so popular is that it is a successful ambient awareness tool. With each tweet from a friend or person of interest, you get a subliminal sense of what he/she is up to. Each tweet also represents an opportunity for ad hoc, informal communication between Twitterers:
In [...]
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