Managing Expectations

There are a lot of posts about the twitter fail whale and similar initiatives and strategies for dealing with site down time or outage.

Obviously when you are in beta and your audience is verging on geek / tech savvy you have a bit more license, as Google Wave demonstrates with this piece of classic valley talk patois -I'm tempted to say it Helluva good.

Wave hello to the future

This week lots of innovation occurring, the NATAL video I just mentioned, and then Google Wave.



Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. It's hard to explain and this video is 1hr 20 long, someone should do a cut down video but it combines IM/ Email / and Google document sharing all in one with a really flexible interface that links in to blogs, apps and social media sites. It is clearly going to be something special and if you have 10 minutes skip through this video to the following time codes:




1. 8.00 - 12.00
2. 12.30 - 14.00
3. 19 -23.00
4. 35.00 - 37.00
5. 47.00 - 48.00
6. 49.00 - 51.00
7. 52.40 - 54.50
8. 1.12-45 - 1.14.00