The Google Wave has hit to a mixed reception in the tech community.  Hailed as the new communications medium it seems that it’s blending of Twitter like comments and threads along with an email-ish layout turns out to be a lot like having email and Twitter, only more distracting.  Not too many of the folks at Slashdot have tried it, but if you follow the links in the body of the post you can hear from those who have.

“Reviews of Google Wave are out, and opinions are that it has potential as a development platform but is noisy to use for real-time communication. Robert Scoble calls it overhyped, claiming it’s useful for little more than personal IM or small- scale project collaboration. He complains about the noisiness of tracking dozens of people chatting him at once in real-time and calls trying to use it a ‘productivity killer’ compared to simpler mediums like email and Twitter.”

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