What Works: The Web Way vs. The Wave Way Crossposted from my posterous-Blog: Anil Dash writes about his doubts on Google Wave – will the complexity deter developers, will it invite them to add fancy bells and whistles or will it inspire them to add “incremental enhancements” to their sites? I think that everything worthwhile doing in this (Enterprise 2.0) collaboration space is going to have both an immense level of “complicatedness” inane and also needs to invite people to add and tweak stuff (yes, this can be done because Wave is complex not complicated alone, if it were complicated like **** nobody would care to experiment with Wave). So I am pondering understanding Google Wave as a CAS – complex adaptive system? Right, I think it is, like the Internets it’s a platform built upon a range of easy protocols that allows for the emergence of unforeseen new patterns (bells, whistles, “incremental enhancements”, …). Sounds great to me and as an Enterprise Collaboration Consultant I really do hope that Google Wave will succeed – in all it’s platformy-ness and complexity – with both developers and business (process) people. But then another task needs to be dealt with – protecting users from the complexities of the platform and helping them find ways of use, here usability of apps and sites built upon Wave must be better than what we’ve seen so far … this messy UX above reminds me of some platforms best forgotten. tweet share share share share email RSS feed The following two tabs change content below.BioLatest Posts Martin Koser Latest posts by Martin Koser (see all) Interview with Frank Schoenefeld – “Getting Enterprise 2.0 on track” - 03/11/2009 Adidas’ Internal Communication Team on Enterprise 2.0 - 22/09/2009 Social Media Revolution – really? - 17/08/2009 Related posts: Olivier Berard : the best approach is the one that will fit your organization and employees, not which works for your neighbor. “Act Local, Think Global” – Bernd Gewehr from Vössing Upcoming: Pre-SUMMIT WikiCamp on Oct 6th enterprise2open New blog post: What Works: The Web Way vs. The Wave Way http://bit.ly/n4lXJ This comment was originally posted on Twitter 11/08/2009 at 10:51 PM