mattan:

ronenreblogs:

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Anyone else notice the structural resemblance to google wave and gmail? (Categories in top left, chat in bottom left, content in the middle, settings on the top right)

Also, I still can’t help but feel that facebook is becoming a bit too crowded for me as far as tools and features goes. As Ronen once quoted: Ostensibly, every instruction manual says the same thing: “This product was poorly designed.” (The whole [1] [2] [3] thing sure looks like an instruction manual.)

In regards to Facebook Neue looking like Google Wave:

It is becoming more and more the norm for people to carry conversations under status updates in the Wave fashion. Although we can’t quite call it “the Wave fashion” because Google Wave likely picked it up from the trending communicative transition, it’s probably a good idea for Facebook to implement this sort of design in order to facilitate discussion in the way it’s being done now.

I can’t say I remember what Facebook looked like years ago, but I do know that back then, you’d write on my wall, and I’d probably respond on your wall. Now, everything happens in response to the line itself, without creating that clutter on other walls. It now makes your page more palatable whereas many iterations ago, people would just see me carrying some silly conversation with you, and probably get turned off and/or intimidated by a monopolized wall.

This is one of the many reasons that I’ve taken the liberty to test jokes and funny quips on Facebook because I’m curious to see what sort of dialogue people will respond with and initiate over the short life of a web-statement. When I see that somebody has something great to say to the (likely) awesome thing I’ve just said, I’m more compelled to start a discourse under my own declaration. The best part about it is that Facebook takes something that was once somewhat distasteful (senseless wall-pong) and makes it almost alluring. Don’t tell me you aren’t compelled to see why there is a twenty-seven comment thread somebody’s status update. It’s even more entertaining when people have full blown arguments or run off on diatribes about something most of us see as a waste of time.

As far as a the likenesses to Gmail, I am hearing that this year, or at least in the near future, Facebook is going to make a powerplay and establish an e-mail system. This would be revolutionary as most of our personal connections, and now even business, are attached to our FB profiles. There is an article about the emergence of FB’s e-mail feature and how they’re reworking the message system to overtake Gmail. The crazy thing is that the overtake and the aftermath of developing what insiders are calling the “Gmail killer” is actually very possible.

With a website like Facebook, where everything is accessible - including your info for their use - I don’t know whether to walk away from this deal like Dave Chappelle, or whether I should embrace yet another arm of the growing internet machine. At the least, I’m impressed that there are people who are quickly figuring these things such that they can almost direct the existing social construct, already with its bits of techno-granola, into a new decade.

The Wave Fashion. What a name.