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Specifically, it was possible for people to join and leave a conversation much in the same way that facebook messaging threads work now.
While Wave did subscribe fairly heavily to the traditional message and reply model it also had support for wiki-style messages, so it was possible for a summary to be maintained in the top message of each thread. (The instant replay tool I always thought was very cool, too.)
And towards the end it did start to introduce some tools to encourage people to summarise information (although admittedly nothing revolutionary). I'm mainly thinking of its widgets for event organisation, date planning and voting which are always horrible to do via email.
I think Wave had a lot of problems and, it may be, that the problems it did solve it didn't solve well but I do think it at least tried and had a few good ideas.
Core ships with a lot of tests and most of the larger contributed modules do too. They're pretty helpful to run frequently to make sure you haven't broken anything but they won't test your configuration or any of your front end stuff.
"While these issues are already fixed in Chrome, some of them impact a much broader array of products from a range of companies. So, we won’t be posting that part until we’re comfortable that all affected products have had an adequate time to push fixes to their users."
Presumably this is referring to other webkit browsers and the wordpad.exe exploit. Does anyone know if these problems have been fixed yet?
Edit: According to this article: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/04/06/atlantic-publisher-ta... all atlantic interns are paid.
"Glancee lets users explore profiles of people nearby and receive notifications of people who have common friends or mutual interests."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-05/facebook-buys-glanc...
I wouldn't be so sure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Whether they will be easy to follow or not will probably depend on how much free time you have now. I work fifty hours a week and socialise often and have found it difficult to keep up with all three courses currently running. I imagine for someone in my position two would be the sweet spot.
If it wasn't light that was being transmitted the man on the moon could warn the man on earth about what's happening before it's reaching him in the same way that people near the epicentre of an earthquake can use twitter to warn people further away before it hits: http://recovery.doi.gov/press/us-geological-survey-twitter-e...