Granted, I haven't touched NNTP in something like 10 years, but I don't think it does what I want. (Really, is NNTP all that different from group email in any respect except archiving?)
In particular, Wave had one feature that is weird but *incredibly* useful: the ability to start a thread right in the middle of another message. So if someone starts a conversation with a big long message (as often happens at work), you can break it down and respond to the pieces and parts separately. And because Wave is essentially a co-editing system at heart, you can then reach the end of a thread, delete it, and summarize it by rewriting the original document.
When Wave first came out, Google tried to sell it as a replacement for email. I was skeptical about that at the time (not least because it centers on exactly the one concept that was *not* in CommYou), but I've gradually come to appreciate the ways in which that's true. It's a very different model, though: instead of thinking in terms of messages back and forth, you think of the conversation as a collaboration over an object (typically a document), with the purpose of winding up with that document in a better state. That's hellaciously powerful for many purposes, and nothing else seems to think that way. (My current explorations with Vibe seem to indicate that it misses this key feature, as AFAICT does the current WiaB client, but I'm hoping to find that it's hidden there somewhere...)
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Date: 2011-02-18 09:06 pm (UTC)In particular, Wave had one feature that is weird but *incredibly* useful: the ability to start a thread right in the middle of another message. So if someone starts a conversation with a big long message (as often happens at work), you can break it down and respond to the pieces and parts separately. And because Wave is essentially a co-editing system at heart, you can then reach the end of a thread, delete it, and summarize it by rewriting the original document.
When Wave first came out, Google tried to sell it as a replacement for email. I was skeptical about that at the time (not least because it centers on exactly the one concept that was *not* in CommYou), but I've gradually come to appreciate the ways in which that's true. It's a very different model, though: instead of thinking in terms of messages back and forth, you think of the conversation as a collaboration over an object (typically a document), with the purpose of winding up with that document in a better state. That's hellaciously powerful for many purposes, and nothing else seems to think that way. (My current explorations with Vibe seem to indicate that it misses this key feature, as AFAICT does the current WiaB client, but I'm hoping to find that it's hidden there somewhere...)