Google's 20th Employee Lists The Company's Three Biggest Mistakes
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"Perhaps shutting down Deja News at 11 a.m. on a Monday morning and not really having any way to post to or browse newsgroups was perhaps a mistake,"
Are you from the department of redundancy department by any chance?
Are you from the department of redundancy department by any chance?
Google Wave was amazingly useful in my senior animation Thesis. Collaborating with my partner on notes and accessing them was a lot easier with it. Plus we could update shot status and add our own thoughts to any notes without having to be in the same room all the time.
Wave's failure was not in how it performed or its features. Everything it did, it did well. It's failure was in getting folks to adopt it as a primary platform. It wasn't really compatible with e-mail without special extensions, so the only real chance it had of adoption was somehow convincing everyone to simultaneously switch. But there's been so many improvements in e-mail since its inception, that switching to Wave for what would seem like only minor improvements didn't make sense. Wave's success depended on e-mail getting phased out, which is very hard to do.
Wave's failure was not in how it performed or its features. Everything it did, it did well. It's failure was in getting folks to adopt it as a primary platform. It wasn't really compatible with e-mail without special extensions, so the only real chance it had of adoption was somehow convincing everyone to simultaneously switch. But there's been so many improvements in e-mail since its inception, that switching to Wave for what would seem like only minor improvements didn't make sense. Wave's success depended on e-mail getting phased out, which is very hard to do.
Google also announced that they are planning on releasing the source code to public. Wave in a Box is what they are calling it. I used Google Wave for months as a platform for roleplaying, and it was the best platform for online gaming I have seen so far. When Wave in a Box is released to the public, I'll be sure to put up my own Wave server, and just continue on developing the service for my own use.rsvp42 said:
You can read all about it from here --> http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/2010/09/wave-open-source-next-steps-wave-in-box.html
I don't think I've ever heard it used as an adjective before. Nouns and verbs; all the time (though the verb form is used as much for putting food onto plates as it is gossiping). The word is clearly sufficiently popular in use that no-one had any real trouble reading it and understanding it. I struggle to see the issue here.Madmanonfire said:
That's because it's not a common adjective to use, but the definition exists. My inner "grammar nazi" doesn't like it because it's suddenly being used as slang in a bunch of posts, and I'm just unfamiliar with it.Gruchul said:
Would you care to show me where I'm wrong in the definition of "dished"?WhiteTigerShiro said:
Sorry, but that's under the definition of "dish", not "dished". I know dictionaries can be a little hard to understand at first, but it shouldn't be that hard to read something as simple as "dish" at the top of the list you quoted.WhiteTigerShiro said:
(Yes, I'm being stupidly technical.)
Go ahead and show me any case where adding "-ed" to a verb to make it past-tense where it drastically changes the definition of the word. Cause... I honestly don't think there's even one case of it.Madmanonfire said:
