Re: Google wave

From: Thomas Roach <troach_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:45:33 -0500
Message-ID: <b86ffce61002121245r218d4ca9o3ffde123fca50546_at_mail.gmail.com>

What's funny is that I actually get so much more done when I work at home because I minimize he interruptions, don't have the phone ringing and constant people walking by and causing me to stop what I am focused on.

I think these services, if you allow them, provide that type interruption 24/7 and one get get exhausted very quickly and fall behind.

Just my 2 cents.

(I do answer email, hence why I reply here throughout the day :)

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> When I'm at the office I have people constantly interrupting me with stupid
> questions, people speaking very loudly and laughing even louder and people
> playing music on their computers... I think that being able to focus on my
> work is not an option when I'm at work (I know, ironic, isn't it?)
>
> A few months ago, during a major outage, I was in conference with about
> twenty people trying to resolve the issue (customer was on the line) and
> some people just started chatting like they were at the pool on a saturday I
> had to actually mute the call and ask them nicely (maybe not so nicely) to
> shut up.
>
> My point is... I can't really focus on anything while I'm at the office, so
> wave/constant e-mails/constant personal e-mail on gmail/chatting with a LOT
> of people... that's just part of the problem...
>
> hth
> Alan.-
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Goulet, Richard <
> Richard.Goulet_at_parexel.com> wrote:
>
>> Chris,
>>
>> I "unplug" very regularly since I don't subscribe to any of it & toss
>> the cell phone on the kitchen counter when I get home. It's also why I live
>> "out in God's country", namely the woods. Listening to the birds &
>> crickets in the summer is pure heaven.
>>
>>
>> *Dick Goulet***
>> Senior Oracle DBA/NA Team Lead
>> PAREXEL International
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Christoph [mailto:cruepprich_at_gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Friday, February 12, 2010 1:15 PM
>> *To:* Goulet, Richard
>> *Cc:* troach_at_gmail.com; Guillermo Alan Bort; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>> *Subject:* Re: Google wave
>>
>> Personally, i have no problem turning the connectivity off. You
>> certainly need to "unplug" regularly, just like you need sleep.
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Goulet, Richard <
>> Richard.Goulet_at_parexel.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Oh dear, another off topic subject that's starting a storm. Personally
>>> I think we've got tooo much connectivity as it is. When I started in IT
>>> cell phones were non-existent and when they did come in they weighed 5
>>> pounds bag & all. There is no private time anymore. No turning the world
>>> off. And these services are to blame. I've a younger cohort who was dating
>>> a certain young lady who was interrupted in the middle of I'm sure you can
>>> guess by a text message from twitter. Bother & shut them down.
>>>
>>>
>>> *Dick Goulet***
>>> Senior Oracle DBA/NA Team Lead
>>> PAREXEL International
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
>>> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Thomas Roach
>>> *Sent:* Friday, February 12, 2010 12:32 PM
>>> *To:* Guillermo Alan Bort
>>> *Cc:* cruepprich_at_gmail.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>>> *Subject:* Re: Google wave
>>>
>>> Guillermo, what if Google expanded GoogleDocs to let you have online
>>> SVN/Git repositories and even leverage Google Code so you can create
>>> projects and seamlessly share it with people much like you do your Google
>>> Calendar or docs?
>>>
>>> I think the key is integration. I think Google has done a very lousy job
>>> of integrating all these new services. I think Google Docs and Gmail
>>> integrate well, but that's about it as far as I can tell.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Guillermo Alan Bort <
>>> cicciuxdba_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have both wave and buzz. Don't really like any of them. Buzz looks to
>>>> me as a 'counter' to twitter/facebook/orkut, that allow you to 'share'
>>>> 'what's on your mind'. It's rather annoying really...
>>>>
>>>> Wave has some nice features... it has potential to become a
>>>> collaboration suite some day... but it's far from it. I think that shared
>>>> code editing would be a nice feature, or perhaps a cvs/svn service...
>>>>
>>>> I'd also like the ability to join wave with gmail... since gmail is my
>>>> 'google central'...
>>>>
>>>> hth
>>>> Alan.-
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Christoph <cruepprich_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Well, Wave is still in beta, so naturally there are still some bugs. I
>>>>> too wish there would be gmail notifications whenever waves get updated. I
>>>>> think, however, there may be a gadget for that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Voice seems to integrate nicely into gmail for me. Getting text
>>>>> versions of voicemails is certainly nice.
>>>>>
>>>>> As for buzz, well, it seems to be a twitter clone. Not sure of any good
>>>>> uses for it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Thomas Roach <troach_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> My biggest gripe about wave and voice was that it did not seem to
>>>>>> integrate with gmail. Not sure if I am doing it wrong, but it was like I had
>>>>>> to add users separately outside of my gmail address book. Like it was a
>>>>>> whole new service so I didn't bother to try and leverage it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyone find a way? is it integrated better now since buzz?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Christoph <cruepprich_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>> I would like to know if any of you are using Google Wave<http://wave.google.com/>,
>>>>>>> and if so, how.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> Christoph
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Thomas Roach
>>>>>> 813-404-6066
>>>>>> troach_at_gmail.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> "Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because
>>>>> they quit playing."
>>>>> - Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thomas Roach
>>> 813-404-6066
>>> troach_at_gmail.com
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they
>> quit playing."
>> - Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
>>
>
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