In this podcast, Mike Karp, a former storage analyst for Enterprise Management Associates, talks about how technology trends, such as cloud computing and virtualization, will continue to reshape enterprise storage, and what CIOs must know to take advantage of these trends. More at EnterpriseLeadership.org
This is what I presented to the folks at the Austin downtown Rotary Club. Great group. Must have been near 100 folks there with lot of relevant questions. Many thanks to Allison Allen for getting me on the agenda for November.
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If you think about it, the complexities of building out modern data center infrastructure (locally and inside the Google Cloud) necessitates really watching and learning from the data traffic patterns across a field of Wave servers. There is a great deal of complex data being exchanged in real time as it interconnects with so many parts of the Internet to interact with your Wave(s). This isn't just simple text like the old bulletin board days, it's rich media. It's multimedia in every thread of conversation. I imagine Google needs time to model this this opaque wad of machine to machine, machine to person and person to machine exchange and scale it - again in real time. We're talking hundreds of thousands of users scaling to tens of millions. How does one do something like this gracefully and quickly? You don't.Let's step back to set the stage.
Some differences between Gmail and Google Wave to consider is that once you're done with an email conversation you don't go back for updates. In fact you can't really use email for much back and forth discussion on issues. It's cumbersome.
In email, conversation threads remain pretty static as a result after a few back and forth cycles. On occasion, someone responds to something said but that results in adding an entire copy of the conversation thread plus his remarks. There is no interaction of the data 'in' the email. It's static, fixed. You can't reach into an email string and cause the text or numbers to be updated or commented on. You can't have a program reach into your mail file to update a calculation so the next time you view it the numbers are updated. You cannot for example update an object inside an email that has already been received.
In Google Wave you could have dozens of conversations going on different topics. When you come back they are all updated and ready for your quick review. This includes updates to objects like graphs, polls, widgets and so forth embedded in the thread of conversions in a Wave. They are constantly updating or at least there is the potential for that. In reality too much updating can feel like you're overloaded but this issue is temporary. Most users of Wave tend to jump in and treat it like a CB Radio or as I said like the old bulletin-board days. As that settles and people get more familiar with the art of engagement in Waves so will the perception of it's use.
Setting up Waves of conversation threads reminds me of the old modem dial in bulletin board days. For free you could download a bulletin board software package and get your friends to dial in to it and talk. We didn't really have open source back then, free was free. Go get it and help us all learn how to use it better. For the Internet elders this was like The Well which was an amazing collection of conversations managed in San Francisco which was only accessible (originally) via slow telephone modem so text was the only viable thing to exchange in conversation. Of course once a group of people interacting online gets over a certain size it becomes unmanageable. We all experienced this in the early days of mailing lists too. With too many people it becomes disastrous. You bail out. What gets lost is the more nuanced interaction with people on conversations that really means something to you.
Google Wave not only lets you set up your own discussions on your own server and hand select who you want to participate, it also includes the use of multi-media elements inside the pages of conversations. Ok well it will over time. You can drag in whatever type of media or widget you wish and use it as part of the conversation. This includes the ability to drag in little robots and widgets that 'do' things for you automatically online. You have the ability to build a tiny world of connected conversations that have value based on who you're sharing it with. Very much like you do with personal email only now you have personal Waves where a select group of friends exchange ideas, work on problems, debate issues and so forth. If you think of the new economy as being based on the exchange of knowledge and intellectual property then Google Wave is an tool for making this happen. The Waves platform deftly blends person to person with person to computer (and visa versa). More on this in a later post as I familiarize myself more with what's possible.
Of course for the moment, the Google Wave servers seems to bog down and the availability of robots and widgets to use inside a Google Wave is limited. But this if course is the purpose of a beta with some regulation over the scaling process. The IT guys have to learn more about the unique aspects of Google Wave servers to implement predictable capacity planning across a cloud of data centers.
Darned exciting times if you ask me. Though oddly, this whole Google Wave thing sure reminds me of the early Lotus Notes server days. Different but somehow similar. We'll be learning more soon I'm sure.
Tom
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I wonder if others are seeing what I'm seeing in Google Wave. I am finding Google Wave a perfect tool for writing down ideas and refining them before publishing. I create a Wave, jot down some thoughts then come back to them when I'm ready to expand the notion into a blog post. I realize I can do this with email and save the draft. I do that in fact at times. Email seems so overwhelming at times that I just find it refreshing to sit down in a new environment to write. There is the added ability to share a Wave with someone I want to review and feedback on my ideas and that is where Google Wave really shines. Again it's possible to do that in email but the back and forth sloshing of email replies gets messy to read and frankly just lost in the wash of email that is constantly coming in. There is a robot that will post a Google Wave directly to Posterous and it seems to work well though you can't go back and edit the Wave and expect the post to be edited. That's not possible at this time. I'd like the ability to add attachments from the Google Wave into Posterous also. I imagine that's all coming over time.
I'm curious now what it would be like to develop a video short or documentary using Google Wave with collaborators. Sure seems like it would help make it possible to capture, explore and refine ideas easier with crew. The ability to quickly add one or two people to share your Wave with is part of the joy. Again, this can be done in Google Docs easily enough. There is just something about Google Wave that makes for a more immediate and intimate collaboration process. I'll see how this pans out over time as more of my business contacts and friends are on Google Wave and I actually use Waves as part of my social interactions.Comments [0]
This is a Test Post from Google Wave to My Blog - tom.parish@posterous.com
Fascinating. Seems to work. I'm going to take a screencast of this. I will not do any editing. Might do a screengrab just in case.TomComments [0]
This mindmap is a good start for someone wanting to know more about the elements you need to consider before jumping in fully to produce a show. Although it's important to be entertaining I sometimes think podcast shows are trying too hard to be funny. For the business to business environment (B2B) the bottom line is tell me something I can use right now in my job. Help me figure out how best to solve this complex problem I'm faced. Let me know how others have approached this set of issues and what they learned. What are the key points I need to have in mind before asking for funding for a project like this.
For the most part this is how I have approached each of the interviews I've hosted and produced over the years. Likewise for the B2C world I believe you'll follow a similar doctrine - help me be a better person. Lead me in a direction that is going to improve my life. During each show I wouldn't mind be entertained but keep an eye on the richness of the content along the way.Comments [0]
We get asked about our process for producing audio and video podcasts. To do it well it takes time to research topics, schedule interesting people, coordinate with marketing groups, edit the interview and keep the show moving forward each week with a fresh feel. Here is a general outline of the production flow we use for shows. Of course each show is different. Each has a different industry focus. There are quite a few elements involved in distributing the podcasts to maximize the visibility of the show but that's another map.
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Other news for today, the new EnterpriseLeadership.org website (ELO as we call it) is up. My team moved roughly 200 written interviews and 200 podcasts with show notes to a new platform called Jive/Clearspace. As with the previous platform I have divided up the content into 7 topics areas:
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