http://www.ivanwalsh.com/how-to/instant-messaging-on-steroids/746/ Learn How To Run Your Business Online Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:35:21 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.ivanwalsh.com/how-to/instant-messaging-on-steroids/746/comment-page-1/#comment-509 Google Wave expands, in search of a clear use-case scenario - Wikimates Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:36:59 +0000 http://ivanwalsh.com/?p=746#comment-509 [...] Cellan-Jones asked Google’s Lars Rasmussen and Stephanie Hannon a very direct question: What’s the difference between communicating and collaborating using Wave, and “instant messaging on steroids?” It wasn’t just a spur-of-the-moment metaphor, and Cellan-Jones probably knew that at the time: As far back as 2001, British Telecom was involved in a joint venture with Intel to develop a concurrent wireless telecommunications network that they repeatedly described using the exact same language; more recently, IBM has been trying to market a set of so-called Community Tools that has been marketed using that same metaphor. [...] [...] Cellan-Jones asked Google’s Lars Rasmussen and Stephanie Hannon a very direct question: What’s the difference between communicating and collaborating using Wave, and “instant messaging on steroids?” It wasn’t just a spur-of-the-moment metaphor, and Cellan-Jones probably knew that at the time: As far back as 2001, British Telecom was involved in a joint venture with Intel to develop a concurrent wireless telecommunications network that they repeatedly described using the exact same language; more recently, IBM has been trying to market a set of so-called Community Tools that has been marketed using that same metaphor. [...]

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