OVERSING UPDATE: ACTIVITY STREAM, CHAT, and MENTIONS Well, now Oversing’s Activi

OVERSING UPDATE: ACTIVITY STREAM, CHAT, and MENTIONS

Well, now Oversing’s Activity Stream and Chat are done. It’s a joy to work with. (although I still want the workspace to be at 65% of scale and the chat and activity windows to be We are also including Peer-to-peer Video Chat, but I want to postpone that until after beta.

Interesting: we wrestled with chats and the context of the chats. So in FB the people are the context, and what people refer to is irrelevant. But in Oversing we want everything in context. So you can open a chat with a context as a participant. But we just can’t get it done for Beta. But afterward, you’ll be able to treat contexts as participants and therefore keep record of communications in context of the work you’re doing.

I haven’t seen anyone else do that. Not that they haven’t, but I haven’t seen it.

We have ‘mentions’ (@name) in activity streams and we will shortly have topic mentions (# topic ) and finally we will have context mentions ( @@ context or && context) in them. So then if you go to the page for the topic, you can see the mentions in the activity stream and pull up the conversation just as you pull up a conversation in chat with a person today. We have also put in a chat tab to access your chats on any person or topic. It’s cool.

I just can’t get it all done by the beta release. (The purpose of a beta is to help us find bugs. It is not an excuse to release a product.)