Peaches Posted November 5, 2009 Report Share Posted November 5, 2009 <h2></h2>Google embraces Wave's permission chaosIt's for your own goodBy Austin Modine4th November 2009Enterprise 2.0 Google is embracing complete user-access anarchy in its new-age collaboration tool, Google Wave, so that early testers won't be tempted to fall into their old emailing habits. A puzzling attribute of Google's new open-communication sandbox is the complete lack of permissions. As it stands today, if a person is invited to a Wave session they have full editing privileges on absolutely everything. And with Google intending Wave to become a serious collaboration tool for businesses, there's clearly some potentially disastrous situations ahead if an army of underlings can simultaneously fiddle with something like a quarterly report or grant application without permission. Speaking at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference today in San Francisco, Google Wave's product manager Gregory D'Alesandre explained that leaving out access controls is part of Google's agenda to wean users and developers away from restricted email environments. More details at The Register - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/04/google_wave_enterprise2point0/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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