Some good thinking in this comic about the nature of conversations, chat & messaging. Ages ago there were many more experiments going on. For instance @kallewoof & I did a UI that was like a combination of google docs & chat — you could annotate or add new text chat anywhere.https://twitter.com/maxkriegers/status/1259168597429096450 …
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@kallewoof and I) basically had a simultaneous editor like Google Wave (and later google docs) running circa ‘05-’06. It had some good features I haven't seen since, and the DOM sync model was powerful. I was surprised I still have the old website up: https://www.synchroedit.com -
Here is an old blog post on the topic: http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2005/10/for_the_last_se.html …. In the end, Microsoft browsers at the time not supporting W3C standards, and Google later offering something that did less for free, killed the project.
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can we augment our online chats with new affordances?
what does a conversational medium that supports *thinking* look like?
Is there a pathway from the linear, one-dimensional, immutable logs we call "online conversation"?
I made a comic!