But that goes for any sort of collaboration system – just throwing software at it isn’t going to immediately make you more collaborative and efficient; the business needs to align itself to the tool otherwise it’s like holding an axe by the blade or the hammer by the head. Not real good.

Does Wave impress?

Thanks

Thanks for your contribution – however please don’t pretend to be an independent reviewer of a product when you’re an employee of the company whose product you’re promoting. It’s so blatantly obvious by the style of the review (and also confirmed by a quick Google search).

I wouldn’t have minded you mentioning your product if you hadn’t attempted to deceive and had disclosed your relationship with Injoos.

I’ve had a look at your product and was not impressed. It appears to be a clone of any of a hundred other such collaboration tools. But good luck to you and your company anyway.

The problem with the folks like Google & Yahoo is that they have created many tools which have been loosely coupled. The challenge with such a solution is that the the information gets locked into multiple silos. With Google Wave they are trying to integrate all the conversations (discussions) but what would be truly desirable is a platform built form ground up using social networking at the base and business apps on top of it. I have tried Injoos Teamware (www.injoos.com) and found it captures both informal and formal knowledge like documents in one single workspace on the cloud.

Checkout their Blog http://injoos.com/blog/2009/10/09/seamless-collaboration-with-release-35/

We are working on a new social site, something quite niche, that lets ppl in real places hook up with like-minded ppl. But of course that can be a contradiction in terms. Who is like your mind or my one for that matter? Pretty hard to say, right?

Because u like a given style of music and I do too, there might be wider gaps than even Briggs Meyer tests can tell us. Everything is fast and transient in the online space. The edges are blurred.

To make some useful progress (we hope!), we are messing with State-of-Mind as an indicator on how to approach other users. If for example user Sally is in a ‘Love’ state-of-mind with an unhappy countenance, then it does give u reasonably good clues how to (and how not to) approach her.

But I digress a little here. Sorry. But it’s with a good cause in mind, because I think we are all trying to figure out how to better emulate the real stuff we instinctively know so well and get it happening in the online enviro.

Thanks for a great and insightful article. FWIW, I do think u should pursue this space, free or commercial, private or public, as the end result could be very special. Very worthwhile stuff.

Cheers!

Still, it’s not really a conversation platform. You have no sense of time, of other conversations (unless you scrub the slider up and down to scan for new or modified blips) … it’s a collaboration platform. But I could definitely see that being more suited for integration with something like I’ve proposed as a “Post-conversation” component.

A participant would join a conversation by clicking on it’s time line, this would center the selected conversation in their workspace and allow them to enter their message. New conversations could be started manually by clicking on an empty area in the workspace and typing a message.

Forking and merging existing conversations based on the clumping of related messages would be a very fun challenge.

Perhaps that is closer to what you are looking for?