Google Wave's Best Use Cases. @arekkusu82: Realistically, Wave is just a new implementation of an old idea. You can acheive much the same thing with SharePoint Discussion boards, or Microsoft Groove (which was developed by a different company before being gobbled up my Microsoft), or ShareFlow by zenbe. Wave is extensible, but so is SharePoint. Sure, the real time translation is pretty sweet, but all the "oooh, shiny" stuff in Wave are just features. The idea behind wave isn't anything groundbreaking...people just think it is because it's a Google project (Oooh! Google's doing something new!). They seem to benefit from the same Reality Distortion Field that Apple does. @arekkusu82: Given that Wave protocol is an open standard, not long. @Bill Clark: Yeah, it first looked to me like a fancy IRC client. But that doesn't stop me from wanting to try it.
11 Wave Tools You May Not Know Exist. Google Wave And The Dawn Of Passive-Aggressive Communication. We’re now a little over a week into the extended roll-out of the preview build of Google Wave. This is an important time for the service because many people can now finally start using it as they eventually may — which is to say, with their friends and colleagues. Of course, the backlash is also already in full-swing, as expected. But I can’t help but wonder if this backlash and the hype that it is a byproduct of, is blinding some to the larger picture. Google Wave is not just a service, it is perhaps the most complete example yet of a desire to shift the way we communicate once again. The Wall Street Journal has a long article about this today, noting “The End of the Email Era.” For many of us, email is simply not cutting it the way that it used to. We all still use email, of course. That’s absolutely true. I would consider email to be a passive form of communication.
Google Wave is attempting to be a passive-agressive form of communication. That’s why Wave is interesting. Google Wave 101 - Wave - Lifehacker. Top 10 Web Collaboration Tools (That Aren't Google Wave) - Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype. I just got my Google Wave invite. No, I’m already out, so I can’t send one to you, sorry. But this service is way overhyped and as people start to use it they will realize it brings the worst of email and IM together: unproductivity. See, the first thing you notice is that you can see people chatting live in Google Wave. That’s really cool if you are working on something together, like a spreadsheet or a Word document. But it’s a productivity sink if you are trying to just communicate with other people. It also ignores the productivity gains that we’ve gotten from RSS feeds, Twitter, and FriendFeed.
What do I mean by that? It is noisy, but the noise often happens way down in a wave deep in your inbox. This is far far worse than email. It’s far far worse than Twitter (where new stuff ALWAYS shows up at top). And, worse, when I look at my Google Wave page I see dozens of people all typing to me in real time. No. Google’s Wave will crash hard onto the beach of overhype.
My advice? How Google Wave could transform journalism | Technology | Los An. Google Wave lets users collaborate live on documents. The tech world is awash with excitement for today's scheduled release of 100,000 invitations to preview Google Wave. Seems like everyone is buzzing about how the collaborative Web tool will revolutionize how we do business, organize parties, manage projects with friends, cheat on homework and market brands (trust us, we've seen the news releases, plural). The term "Google Wave" has been on Twitter's top-trending list all day. For the last two months, while we've been testing the Google Wave developer preview, we have been talking amongst ourselves about how this thing could change (or add to) what we do. So, here's a list of a few wild ideas we had for using Wave. Collaborative reporting: You may notice that double bylines aren't very common. That's because trying to co-author a news story stinks.
We're not going to e-mail our co-writers with every new lead and minute detail we dig up. Live editing: We love our editors (really, we do). Google Wave Questions and Answers - Google Wave Preview. Testing Google Wave: This Thing is Tidal. Everyone's been talking about it: Google Wave. Google's super communication tool has been a top trend on Twitter, a focus of media speculation, and was even able to knock Microsoft's Bing from the top of the news cycle. But almost all the hype has been based on the demos - almost nobody's actually got to try out Google Wave. Well, thanks to a few of our friends, we had the opportunity today to try out the alpha version of this groundbreaking new service. From creating waves to joining in on discussions, we put the newest Google sensation through the ringer. Does Google Wave stand up to the hype?
Still got questions? Interface Overview: The interface, at first glance, mirrors email. Central to Google Wave's interface is search - you create specific searches based on not only keywords, but activity, history, person, and more. Another bonus: each box can be collapsed to save you room. The good and bad: It's not as complicated as some other screenshots have shown. Communication Extensions. The Top 6 Game-Changing Features of Google Wave. Without a doubt, the product that has the entire web buzzing right now is Google Wave, the search giant's newly announced communication platform. Earlier this week, we brought you detailed information on the new Google product in our article Google Wave: A Complete Guide, but now we want to explore exactly why everyone is so excited about Google Wave.
You've probably heard people talk about Google Wave being a game-changer, a disruptive product, or maybe even as an email killer. But while keywords and phrases like these grab people's attention, they don't explain why or how Google Wave could be a paradigm-shifter. In this article, we explore these questions by highlighting some of Google Wave's most unique and promising features. By exploring these features, we can better understand the potential of this new technology. 1. Why it's game-changing: There was a perfect example of how this changes communication during Google's demo of the product. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Went Walkabout. Brought back Google Wave. Back in early 2004, Google took an interest in a tiny mapping startup called Where 2 Tech, founded by my brother Jens and me. We were excited to join Google and help create what would become Google Maps.
But we also started thinking about what might come next for us after maps. As always, Jens came up with the answer: communication. He pointed out that two of the most spectacular successes in digital communication, email and instant messaging, were originally designed in the '60s to imitate analog formats — email mimicked snail mail, and IM mimicked phone calls. Since then, so many different forms of communication had been invented — blogs, wikis, collaborative documents, etc. — and computers and networks had dramatically improved. So Jens proposed a new communications model that presumed all these advances as a starting point, and I was immediately sold. We had a blast the next couple years turning Where 2's prototype mapping site into Google Maps. Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform Fo. Yesterday, during the Google I/O keynote, Google’s VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, laid out a grand vision for the direction Google sees the web heading towards with the move to the HTML 5 standard.
While we’re not there yet, all the major browser players besides Microsoft are aligned and ready for the next phase, which will include such things as the ability to run 3D games and movies in the browser without additional plug-ins. But Google wants to take it one step further with a brand new method of communication for this new era. It’s called Google Wave. Everyone uses email and instant messaging on the web now, but imagine if you could tie those two forms of communication together and add a load of functionality on top of it.
At its most fundamental form, that’s essentially what Wave is. Having seen a lengthy demonstration, as ridiculous as it may sound, I have to agree. Features Maybe you want to add another friend to the wave. And from here we go much deeper. A New Web.