{"id":517,"date":"2009-11-03T04:16:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T08:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=517"},"modified":"2009-11-03T04:18:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T08:18:41","slug":"a-problem-with-google-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"A Problem with Google Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google Wave<\/a> is still, of course, very much in its infancy, but I see one major problem with it.  Well, it\u2019s not really a \u201cproblem\u201d … it\u2019s more of a structural property that I think is unhelpful.<\/p>\n

With Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and forums, when I post something, I\u2019m not posting to<\/em> anybody.  I\u2019m just posting something out there to whoever might be interested.  In Facebook I\u2019m posting to friends, in Twitter I\u2019m tweeting to followers, in blogs I\u2019m posting to whoever visits or subscribes to my blog (that\u2019s you!), and on forums I post to other members or visitors of the forum.<\/p>\n

With e-mail, on the other hand, I\u2019m conversing privately with one select person (or a select group).  Twitter has an equivalent: direct messages.  Forums also have an equivalent: private messages.  Facebook also private messaging, an equivalent, and a wall-posting, which is semi-equivalent.<\/p>\n

Currently, Google Wave is somewhere between.  It can certainly replace email as it is (well, once attachments are allowed and more people start using it).  But to truly be revolutionary, it needs to provide a way for me to talk to nobody; it needs a way for me to post a wave and let anyone who wants to read it read it and reply to it, or let other wavers subscribe to my public waves.  I fear that if it does not do this, it may stay a very niche tool.<\/p>\n

That said, I probably shouldn\u2019t worry; there\u2019s a lot of functionality yet to be implemented and a lot of plug-ins and exports and whatever yet to be written.<\/p>\n

So while I\u2019m glad I got a Wave invite and am allowed on, it\u2019s still kind of useless to me at the moment.<\/p>\n

THESE AREN\u2019T THE DROIDS WE\u2019RE LOOKING FOR<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Droid\"<\/a> In other not-very-interesting news, I\u2019m continuing to look through Google\u2019s Android SDK<\/a>.  Even though I\u2019ve been programming in Java for a while now (though I definitely consider myself far from expert), the structure of how Android applications work is still kind of cryptic to me.  And, unfortunately, the OS is still so new that there aren\u2019t many learning resources for it, especially for game development and graphics, which are my areas of interest.  If you want to develop games, you\u2019re pretty much on your own.  Google does provide some source code for some very small sample programs, but you kind of have to figure out how they work on your own.  For example, Google says<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Writing a summary of how to actually write 3D applications using OpenGL is beyond the scope of this text and is left as an exercise for the reader.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m sure Java \/ game \/ graphics programming experts would have an easier time understanding how it all works by just studying the sample source code, but it will take some extra work for me.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I\u2019ve been looking more and more at the new Droid phone<\/a> coming out, and I\u2019ve been thinking that I\u2019ll be needing some sort of phone with Android on it to test any potential apps I might create, so I\u2019m very tempted to get one.  Like, very very tempted.  Like, I probably will.  For, you know, game development research, of course.<\/p>\n

By the way, I like what it says at the bottom of the Droid site<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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DROID is a trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd. and its related companies.  Used under license.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Where would the world be if Star Wars had been a flop?  We might not have this phone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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