Here is an intro video about wave, looks like I missed wiki and instant messaging when trying to list the sorts of things its inspired by/designed to replace.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6pgxLaDdQw And I finally remembered the name of the video host of old: ourmedia. Ive just been catching up with where this and some other sites have ended up, they are still alive but not exactly bursting with momentum or giving us much to talk about. Speaking of which, are some of the conversations that used to happen on this group now taking place on twitter or friendfeed or peoples blogs or other communities, or are they not happening much at all now? Its nice to see this group busier of late, and Im just a wondering how to get a sense of the state of things, everything is so fragmented and based on popularity or social connections these days, Im a bit lost. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "elbowsofdeath" <st...@...> wrote: > > Google Wave interests me. On face value its just googles answer to twitter, > social networks, forums, email & blog comments, but the way they are doing it > makes me interested. For as well as the usual APIs that will allow developers > to add functionality to the platform, and the now standard ability for users > to embed this stuff in their own sites, they are also releasing full details > on the protocol used to make the service work, as well as example code which > demonstrates how to make your own clients and servers. If adopted by people, > this means we dont have to worry about Google having complete control over > this stuff and it all being centralised in the usual way. > > So has anybody looked at it in detail? At this stage its one of those > annoying invitation-based betas so I havent had the opportunity to try it > myself, though the developers stuff I mention is available and Im starting to > read more detail about it. > > Im interested in it from the point of view of solving stuff we talked about > here over the years: aggregating content and conversations in a more > sophisticated way, whilst still retaining control of the data and not ending > up in a walled gardem that al the API's from the likes of facebook have not > really torn down, they just added more gates to the wall. > > What significant developments have happened on the web in recent years, > especially pertaining to vlogging? I took my eyes off the ball for a while > after getting tired with the hype filled web 2.0 stuff once it reached the > silly greedy commercial stage and then started to vanish up its own backside, > whats occuring apart from the obvious like facebook and twitter? How have the > video hosting services evolved, or have they just been treading water and > trying to survive in recent times? > > Are there any interesting projects that people are throwing themselves into? > There is a hole in my life where once I used to be able to have dreams > inspired by the likes of fireant, mefeedia, showinabox, and all sorts of > other things whose names now escape me. Wow, I cant even remember the name of > the video hosting site that used archive.org and never quite lived up to its > potential. > > Cheers > > Steve Elbows >