As you likely know, I have a particular aversion to just throwing up videos for the sake of “instant” blogging. Yet, for the first time, I’ve done it twice in a row. Not really sure why. I guess I’m more observing and absorbing rather than being in a place to provide any reflections. I’ve only been a Google Wave participant for a week but, well to quote Fergie, “I’ve got a feeling….” I think Google Wave could really be a communications game changer.
I’m swimming in the newest technologies, navigating the firehose as they say, looking ahead beyond the Wave. Seems everyone is sort of up in arms about the effectiveness of real time typing….. but what I’m thinking about is, well, to pull it straight from Wikipedia “Speech synthesis – A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal language text into speech; other systems render symbolic linguistic representations like phonetic transcriptions into speech.”
Omnivores – aren’t we right around the corner from a voice markup language, SSML (Tesseract has a disabled code for a handwriting markup language)? Oh, where are my voice recognition futurists…. @terrystorch @JohnSaddington @samsoffes @tonysteward @alldevelopers @anyone? Where are we? Is Google Wave as significant as it seems?
For inspiration you can see Lifehacker – Google Wave Best Use Cases.
yeah, i’m not so sure yet. i think people like to make fuzzy and wild claims with words like “death” to get attention.
who knows. mass adoption has a wierd thing about it.
@Human3rror – is voice recognition really around the corner? have you worked with any voice markup language? are we years away? ps – has Andy Stanley really experimented with holographic preaching or is that a wild internet rumor?
It’s not so much a “death to email” bell that needs to be rung, as much as it is “how are we communicating with text mediums effectively.” Google Wave is the most recent approach to think differently, MediaWiki/Wikipedia is another, and IM/VoIP are other ways that this is being challenged.
The key is making sure that the communication is relevant, not the silo/manner in which it is done. For that, Wave is good to note because its asking people just to commnicate, not asking them how.
Let me know when *smart* phones get the same message (I should not have to guess whether someone is busy or not; smartphones and the networks attached to them should be smart enough to notice that for me, based on the receiver’s mobile setting/location/context).
Antoine – great to hear from a mobile perspective!
Hey! Be good to chat sometime about this. Also I am in the midst of something quite extraordinary with the Bible page on Facebook. It has just passed 800,000 ‘fans’ and according to Inside Facebook, is one of the fastest growing pages with Vanity URLs. Check it out at: http://www.facebook.com/TheBible what is amazing, is the ministry that is happening around it, prayer, support, evangelism and so on. I have Muslim and Atheist evangelists targeting it!
Well be good to chat some time.
God bless,
Rev Mark
http://www.facebook.com/MarkBrown.page
Wow! What a great, but really quite obvious idea. Combing chat and email makes perfect sense. Now for the race to see who becomes the standard protocol that everyone must follow!
(was first a comment in a Google Wave)
We are all in on it. Have it open all the time and using it for a replacement for chat, email and docs. Still in email and chat and our usual tools, but most of our team has just been getting our invites so we can start having larger conversations over things. And we keep finding new things, like the ability to tag waves in the bottom left, and then you can have saved searches that will show those waves, etc. as you work on them.
Not all email will die. Just the emails pertaining to document collaboration. We have been learning a lot of interesting facts and faults with Google Wave. Read more at http://www.dynamicalsoftware.com/news/?p=51