Google Wave – Microsoft OneNote anyone?
Right… just before SotR09 London I can’t get sleep. I just watched the Google Wave recording from Google I/O. After 5 minutes I had this feeling I’ve seen it somewhere already…, think, think! And BING ;) It was Microsoft OneNote.
All that real-time typing capabilities, dropping images, commenting is already in OneNote. Until I see and "touch" Wave I claim – Wave is OneNote on steroids. Is it going to be successful? I really don’t know, probably yes. I’m just not sure if I really want Google to know everything about me, where I go, what do I do in my spare time, what do I work on.
June 1st, 2009 at 2:54 am
Wow, I hadn’t known Microsoft OneNote is open-source and platform-agnostic. Except — no, wait, it isn’t. And that OneNote had simultaneous realtime automatic translation between arbitrary pairs of 40 languages. Or — no, wait, it doesn’t. But I guess open source, platform-agnostic, and simultaneous realtime automatic translation are no big deal, right? Or — no, wait, they are!
June 1st, 2009 at 5:30 pm
I’m just not sure if I really want Google to know everything about me, where I go, what do I do in my spare time, what do I work on.
For god’s sake. If you actually watched the video you’d know full well that it’s open source and federated. You could run it on your home computer if you wanted to, or just for everyone in your business or school. OR you could sign up to a large provider like Google, but any other company could be a provider too, so it doesn’t matter if you don’t trust google.
Onenote may be a little overkill for your needs if you don’t actually fact-check your own thoughts.