On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Anthony
<wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
Like replying in the middle of a message, not by
quoting the original,
but
by just editing the person's message to add
your question in the middle
of
it. How pissed would you be if someone did that
on your User talk page?
But yet it got applause. Don't people think? What was the constituency
of
the audience, anyway? They were applauding at
some pretty horrible
ideas.
If I remember well, it was replying in the middle of a collaborative
document. I suppose that there is an option "remove all comments" or
so. Also, you may trace history of collaboration and comments (at more
intuitive way than on MediaWiki page histories).
Maybe so. I'm sure there will be a way to turn it off. If not initially
then after the hate mail starts coming in.
And yeah, you can in theory trace the history. But I don't want to do all
that work.
Again, after thinking about it further I guess it has its possible uses.
But they were pitching it as a replacement for email, not as a replacement
for wikis or a new method of communications altogether.
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
When you paid attention, you would know that it were developers.
Well, yes, clearly, but that only partially explains the lack of grasp on
the real world. Seriously, I remember watching some other parts and
thinking about how it was surely written by some geek with no concept of a
world outside of cyberspace.
But the audience seemed to be even in love with Google, almost in a
cult-like way, compared to the average developer. I mean, sure, it was a
self-selected sample, of people interested in Google, but even that doesn't
explain the response. I'm quite interested in Google, and as a shareholder
I am quite biased toward them. But I wouldn't have dreamed of applauding at
some of the crap they revealed.