hi, im mcdavis

mikehudack:

caterpillarcowboy:

One of the guys in DreamIt has a Wave account. My thoughts:

• This is an incredible collaboration platform for teams.
• No way will this replace email or other existing forms of communication.
• The federated platform nature of it will make companies much more comfortable. You can store your sensitive documents on your own servers, not Google’s.
• The robots concept is neat, but not much more intuitive than IRC bots.
• It’s buggy as hell.

The people who should be worried the most is the 37Signals team. This has the potential to be a fantastic improvement over Basecamp, Campfire, Backpack, Highrise. It’s real-time collaboration, version controlled like a wiki, great support for multimedia with smooth drag and drop.

If you don’t use IRC or 37Signals-style group productivity software, move on, there’s nothing to see here.

After two days of playing with it and developing small apps with it, I feel the same way.  It’s still too cumbersome for anyone to adopt it over email, but I think private groups in this will flourish with all the features packed in and the ease of collaborating.  This will be great for startup teams that are spread out (similar to 37Signals tools) to work with as well.