Bryan Loar Bio

As co-founder of Cbus Libraries, I champion libraries, library professionals, and the love of reading. Cbus Libraries explores and promotes libraries of all sizes and types within the Central Ohio region, including public, academic, government, corporate and private libraries. We support the love of reading through grassroots community involvement, including our Libraries Everywhere program. I received my Master of Library and Information Science degree from Kent State University and separate Bachelor of Arts degrees in history of art and Italian from The Ohio State University. I like to read and write about art, libraries, innovation, and copyright. I am married with three beautiful daughters, and we live in the historic neighborhood of Clintonville in Columbus, Ohio.

Ciao Google Wave

The Rasmussen brothers created an interesting product, but the lack of ease, lack of integration with existing products (both Google's & others), and Internet user behavior did not bode well for Wave.

I really, really liked the promise of being able to tie conversations across different platforms into one thread (e.g. email, blog, micro-blog, etc.), but, like others, I found the service difficult to incorporate and somewhat siloed.

Lessons:
1) Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS)
2) Demonstrate within 60 seconds how it will easily integrate into a user's habits
3) Demonstrate and make incremental steps to changing user behavior (or demonstrate the value of radical change in such a way that users can't resist adopting)

Here's Google's blog post on the matter.