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I know everyone’s been talking about it, and that I’m not supposed to be a news blog or anything like that, but I’m pretty excited about Google Wave after watching the presentation.

I try really hard not to be a Google fanboy, but I must admit I sympathize with the company and the way they work. The “do no evil” stuff might not be entirely true, but it’s corporate behavior is certainly well within what I consider a reasonable trade-off between the modern needs of a huge company and the lofty ideals of social responsibility.
It could all be a ruse to get big enough to rule the world and the paranoid side of me isn’t completely dead, but I give them the benefit of the doubt for now.
Anyway, I digress in my justification of admiration for Google.

I haven’t yet read the protocol specs, but I’m curious to see how they deal with connection problems between federating servers and the conflicting edits that might arise from such a situation. Also curious about possible desktop client integration and offline use.
I’ll hopefully have time to browse through it in the next few days.

I give up. I was gonna complain about how impossible it has been these last weeks to get some geek news without having to read through thousands of headlines about how Twitter is gonna save the world and cure cancer, but now I’m gonna try and use it for real – belatedly, of course – to see if it’s really as useless for me as I’ve always thought.

Note that I won’t go as far saying it’s useless for everyone – specially since it’s more dangerous to mess with twitoholic fanboys by cursing Twitter online than cursing Mohamed inside a Mosque – but I just don’t think it matches my usual web habits.

Since I’m backpedaling I might as well join identi.ca, but nobody outside the geek world seems to know about it, so I’m peer-pressured, so to speak, into Twitter.