the unimaginatively named: lewis’ blog

…for the medium business downwards, quite likely, here’s the current feeling:

Mary J Foley: With Wave, did Google jump the (Microsoft) shark?
Paul Thurrott: First Look - Google Wave 
Twitter: SharePoint and Google Wave

Features
For the SharePoint features I see most small and medium size companies using… (as a SharePoint consultant), Google Wave may well hit the spot. So how does it match up against SharePoint? Here are a few things I can’t confirm are in the “Google wave product”, but features that may be deal breakers for potential switchers:

1. Workflow (could be provided by extensions)
2. Metadata on Waves/Posts (to emulate content types)
3. Security – this is the big one, how to make someone a commenter but not a contributor to a wave? how to have the granularity of permissions levels?
4. Microsoft office integration – well if Google docs/spreadsheet etc are enough, then this will be an awesome addition.
5. Skinning/Branding – could be provided by a third party that wraps the Wave engine into a CMS/Wiki/Blogging platform.

Read on for some more devil’s advocate……

Eye-tracking on a tablet. Why? because no one wants to hunch over the table when writing their shamefully dull memoirs, and neither do they want to sit back and squint to read the screen…Just a little idea from the sketchbook:

more images after the break…