There have been a number of chat protocols/clients over the years that have allowed show-as-you-type. All of them have ended up with an option to turn it off, because it's just so fuckupity and annoying to have to *watch* it...

OTOH, what's new isn't the chat integration so much as the collaboration possibilities.

What was that thing on VMS? Phone? (That had the annoying "watch me typo!") I used to use that with my friend in Boston. Man, that was a long time ago.

All of them have ended up with an option to turn it off

As does Wave, according to the article.

Plus there are SOOOOO many times I'm editing as I type...especially when having conversations that are...touchy.

Right? It takes me a while to think through what I want to say...and how I want to say it. That's why text communication works for me, because my extra typespeed gives me additional edit time to revise my phrasing, without it appearing socially awkward at the other side of the chat box.

If you have to look at when I pause to think about something, you'll know what I'm trying to avoid saying! Hee.

(Yeah, I know it's an option in Wave according to the article, but if it's on by default as a feature, then you'll know I've turned it off for an insidious purpose, like editing!)

Which is to say, I type fast, but inaccurately and am constantly going back to correct.

"I live the way I type: Fast and with lots of mistakes."

Didja' know that in Firefox, Ctrl+Tab lets you move between tabs?

Isn't that a Windows interface standard?

Google Wave looks very interesting.

Moved over from Natter as the idea occurs to me:

So I've been thinking of getting a netbook for taking with me on my work trips--when I go for more than a day, I HAVE been taking my macbook, but it's soooo heavy to take two computers. But there are sites I really don't like to go to on my work computer (and heck, sites I do to that I probably SHOULDN"T). So I figure a netbook would be a great compromise. That'd be pretty much all I use it for--websurfing on the road.

Most of the hotels I stay in have wifi (or some have ethernet). But I was thinking on how in airports and stuff, I'd probably end up wanting to use the work computer anyway, since I have a cellphone card for it, and bah, doesn't that end up defeating the purpose of surfing on teh netbook, and suddenly was all 'Heyyyyy....could I use the cellphone card on the netbook?" I don't have one of those shiny NEW cellcards that's a USB stick, sadly (and since I'm riding under the radar on even having the company pay for it at the moment, no chance of trading in for one), I"ve got the older school big flat slot kind. I don't even know what that slot is called. Can someone help me, so I can figure out if any of the netbooks would even HAVE that slot, so I could maybe use it, on them? Because THAT would be SWEET.

Ctrl-Tab moves between open applications in Windows, I thought.

Alt-Tab moves between applications. Ctrl-Tab moves between tabs.