Comment Re:Wonder if their time hasn't already passed... (Score 1) 167
Gatekeeping at launch is just shooting yourself in the foot - people want to try your system, and if you lock them out... they aren't coming back.
This. This is totally why Google Wave failed. What could have been a revolutionary collaboration tool set to replace email, Google Docs, and all other similar services into one unified interface failed totally by only allowing invited users to participate, IMHO. What good is a collaboration tool if the people you want to collaborate with can't access it? Talk about a waste of fantastic technology due to shitty launch method.
I would have absolutely loved to replace our corporate email system with a more Wave-like system where I don't have to search for old versions of emails, send someone the entire conversation backlog if they're new to the thread, find which email contained the attachment I was looking for, or wait for a reply when conversations could be had in real-time chat right there in the "email".