Team solutions #1: Text development

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 20, 2011 at 08:15 AM

For reference, I add a link here to a thread started two years ago by Ken (not quite sure which one of the two ;-) http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/1133/

The thread initially ellaborated on collaborative webspaces, but soon focused on Google Wave which had then just been announced That’s why I find it more relevant to this thread on collaborative text development, rather than the other on project management.

Two years later, the lost opportunity that Google Wave represented makes me almost melancholic. It may have been too much too soon—a cultural shock that even people accustomed to working via the internet could not handle. But I can’t help being sore at Google for not standing behind its child. I find they give too little time for their innovations to catch up—they gave Google Buzz even less time. Can anyone remember how many years it took email to become popular? Why should the product that would replace it be accepted overnight?