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 …
-
-
Replying to @ChristopherA @kallewoof
Would love to see that, I had similar ideas when this project started. And I think Google wave had something like that
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @maxkriegers @kallewoof
We (
@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.com1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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.
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
One of the interesting challenges of being based on DOM architecture, was if a co-editor had a web-based spell checker installed, everyone would see the spell check. We had to work around that, but that also meant that anything that used DOM UI worked. TiddlyWiki for instance.
1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Three of my favorite features in SynchroEdit were in the chat sidebar. It was persistent (google docs are not), ordering was by when you STARTED typing, not when you hit return (made for better chat transcripts), and you can edit, add or annotate old comments with URLs and such.
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
wow, start-typing ordering is such a wonderful idea! writing that down...
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.
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!