Still not seen something I'd actually use though...
Jeff Korhan
· 3 weeks ago
I especially like the use for consuming conference data. This makes for a truly collaborative effort in which the audience, the presenter, and the meeting planner all receive real-time information that is invaluable for their respective roles. As a presenter, this is very cool indeed to know how the message is being received and what is resonating with the audience.
I just got my invite today so I'm looking forward to learning with the help of this article. Thank you.
Jay Glogovsky
· 3 weeks ago
I completely agree and just received my invitation as well. Unfortunately, I am finding that many people still do not have it and they need to increase the amount of people to receive the invite or offer a couple more invitations for you to give out.
Joshua Landsberg
· 3 weeks ago
Great post. I'd love to try our Google Wave, does anyone have an extra invite? Thanks in advance.
Josh
dainathomas
· 3 weeks ago
yes..I hava an extra invite for google wave .. can you please send me your email Id .. so that I can mail it you ..
Of all 5 examples I reckon the 4th one, 'annotating a live event', is the most likely to become popular as arguably more efficient than following hashtag tweets on Twitter.
Joaquin de Castejon
· 3 weeks ago
Can't wait to get an account to start trying to figure it out. All the hype is killing me!
Raúl Vides Mosquera Pumaricra
· 3 weeks ago
SAP Gravity rocks
sadfeen
· 3 weeks ago
anyone knows the url for gravity gadget?
brainflickman
· 2 weeks ago
Googlewave is cool - but for process diagrams try BrainFlick's process modeling and diagramming capability....you dont have to be Exxon and its waycoollabrativity (is that a word)?
Hughes
· 3 weeks ago
My business partner and I just got our Wave accounts yesterday and it has already become our main means of collaborating. Absolutely love it. It takes a little while to wrap your head around the mix of email and IM style communication and learning etiquette that is unique to Wave(when to interrupt someone, starting new waves vs reusing existing Waves).
There is no way I would willing go back to pre-Wave type communication and collaboration now that I've used it first hand.
We are already learning what we need to do to get our own internal Wave server setup and how to start getting people working on Wave extensions for meetings, document collaboration, version control, and archiving and record keeping.
Adelore Lessard
· 3 weeks ago
I have some invites to give out. Hit me up on twitter: aetherfunk
Great article, retweeted this. We need more Google Wave articles. http://www.wavenut.com
kmskala
· 3 weeks ago
I don't see how the salesforce example will take off. If I am having issues, the last thing I want is to try and communicate with a bot. This example goes against the principle of customer service. It's bad enough that people are transferred over seas, now we're going to be Waving with a bot?
No thanks.
Other examples are pretty solid. Nothing revolutionary, but solid uses of Wave.
And it is working very well. By the way, the showed use cases are extremely good!
amycesario
· 3 weeks ago
Fantastically amazing! Ready for an invite. :-)
ink cartridges
· 3 weeks ago
What excites me about google wave is the fact that it is an integrated and open ended tool for collaboration. Another tool we use to organize our behavior in groups is currency. I think google wave will prove a powerful context in which to devise innovative ways of "keeping score" that help groups better organize their activities.
Jaspal Singh
· 3 weeks ago
gr8 post .. gr8 usages and hands down to google wave :)
Carl-Johan Sveningsson
· 3 weeks ago
Collaborative editing rocks, broadening the concept of eXtreme Programming. It used to be only odd things like SubethaEdit which supported it, but with Google Docs and Wave now, maybe we can use it more? Also real-time collaborative is not the same thing as just editing a wiki together - stopping to save is for sissies!
Shaquille Ray
· 3 weeks ago
I am really interested with number 3 . sounds really awesome. Can't wait till i get see it in action.
Got my invite, logged in and totally confused... *rolling eyes* The examples above except for the gaming don't exactly seem to be geared to ordinary people. I'm not sure how most of us will ever need collaboration with friends and family like this. I'm not putting down Google Wave but I'm not exactly finding it practical for everyday computer users, maybe one on one but certainly not groups. Will people really take the time to use it unless it's for business or school? The latter would be awesome like in the video examples given. How many of us need this level of collaboration that simple IM's apps can handle?
Full disclosure, I've only been trying to use Google Wave for a very limited time but again I'm confused as to how to make it useful to me.
winedude
· 3 weeks ago
I could see waves being useful for discussing potlucks, Thanksgiving dinners, surprise parties, chores lists, shopping lists, Trip planning....
Strange_Thought
· 3 weeks ago
Yes it's nothing more than what I can do with IM's (as I stated above)..... Besides how many potlucks, thanksgiving dinners, surprise parties, etc could we possibly have? People that use things infrequently tend to forget that it exists, I think Google would want something we can use all the time like gmail. I'm looking at the practicality of using such a technology. It's much better for business and school I think (right now). In it's current state OMG it's a mess when you have too many people in a wave, too much to read and it's visually a bit hard to follow. Not to mention the potential for spam in public waves.
Don't get me wrong I'm not knocking it, it's just so odd and doesn't yet have a flow to it (so to speak) that makes its value obvious. When you have to convince people to use something and the value isn't self-evident then it fails, it's the rule of the road..
I think the Open Source community is going to LOVE GoogleWave, they will see most of the value as will Universities and the like.
tbatliner
· 3 weeks ago
IMHO one of the big pros is that google wave is more than "just" the interface currently available at wave.google.com. It´s rather a new way to communicate, and this is of course not limited to humans. Imagine the following: What if the cash register after your next (or the one after :-) ) shopping will send you a wave, your cell will ask you for payment confirmation and that´s it? Or the fridge is sending some alert...of course all of those ideas are by far not new but the improved protocol being used has some great advantages.
best regards!
tbatliner
· 3 weeks ago
IMHO one of the big pros is that google wave is more than "just" the interface currently available at wave.google.com. It´s rather a new way to communicate, and this is of course not limited to humans. Imagine the following: What if the cash register after your next (or the one after :-) ) shopping will send you a wave, your cell will ask you for payment confirmation and that´s it? Or the fridge is sending some alert...of course all of those ideas are by far not new but the improved protocol being used has some great advantages.
best regards!
Alex
· 3 weeks ago
Nice post. You might want to blur the wave addresses in those screenshots though.
Sunil Kelkar
· 3 weeks ago
Satish Talim of RubyLearning is experimenting by teaching JRuby using Google Wave. It's by invitation only but has over 100 participants so far.
real world uses for Google Wave.. now I just need to know others will have invites :)
PM Hut
· 3 weeks ago
Does that mean that Google bought Mingle? If this is true I wonder what will happen to the competition currently being advertised on Google.
Rick Murray
· 3 weeks ago
Agree. We did just that during the FDA Social Media Hearings last week. 80 speakers over two days. Created wavelets for each speaker; pre-populated news coverage, posts and presos from as many speakers as we could; and then tracked the session in as it streamed live. Work in process for sure, but it's a whole lot better than live blogging / Tweeting.
tongyu
· 3 weeks ago
number 3 is amazing.
vishnu-suman Choudhary
· 3 weeks ago
yep, really awesome, now things r gonna b changed. communicate and collaborate in real time.
jimberry
· 3 weeks ago
Very interesting! Something new to learn. Thanks for the info.
jimgray69
· 3 weeks ago
#2 works for me with some existing situations...
vishnu-suman Choudhary
· 3 weeks ago
yep, really awesome, now things r gonna b changed. communicate and collaborate in real Time.
תאורה
· 3 weeks ago
The Salesforce Wave for Customer Service looks useful. I guess I will add similar application to my site (תאורה). Right now we use twitter to enable customers real-time interaction with us, but wave will enable much 'richer' user interface.
Mario Stronzo
· 3 weeks ago
BOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRINNNNNNG!
sadfeen
· 3 weeks ago
anyone knows the url for gravity gadget?
Faisal
· 3 weeks ago
Does anyone have an extra invite? Really curious about the new tech, but have no access to it! Please send it to Jaxxtec (gmail account)
Thanks!
coltalton
· 3 weeks ago
I have about 10 wave invites left. Reply to the forum at this page: http://www.ednak.com/forum/topics/google-wave-i... to request your invite. They will go quickly, so reply now if you want one of the last 10.
snehaandani
· 3 weeks ago
The problem with the folks like Google & Yahoo is that they have created many tools which have been loosely coupled. The challenge with such a solution is that the the information gets locked into multiple silos. With Google Wave they are trying to integrate all the conversations (discussions) but what would be truly desirable is a platform built form ground up using social networking at the base and business apps on top of it. I have tried Injoos Teamware (www.injoos.com) and found it captures both informal and formal knowledge like documents in one single workspace on the cloud.
Helen Neely
· 2 weeks ago
yes..I hava an extra invite for google wave .. can you please send me your email Id .. so that I can mail it you ..
rjdempsey
· 2 weeks ago
Using a public wave at conferences sounds like a great idea. Twitter has been great for conferences, but openly collaborating and annotating a wave would be much better than following hashtags.
Rachel
· 2 weeks ago
Nice cases! I really like the customer service one. If only more companies could have something like that, it'll speed up the process! Except when you're having problems with your internet provider, than you'll just have to use your phone :)
We are using it here http://community.sketchpatch.net/google-wave on the sketchPatch site to let people discuss and learn the Processing programming language together. Visitors can also embed their favorite sketch in the conversation.
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I just got my invite today so I'm looking forward to learning with the help of this article. Thank you.
Josh
Cheers,
Daina Thomas
Cheers,
Daina
There are some interesting use cases at http://www.wextensions.com/category/google-wave...
There is no way I would willing go back to pre-Wave type communication and collaboration now that I've used it first hand.
We are already learning what we need to do to get our own internal Wave server setup and how to start getting people working on Wave extensions for meetings, document collaboration, version control, and archiving and record keeping.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk9Xe3f6PAM
http://www.wavenut.com
No thanks.
Other examples are pretty solid. Nothing revolutionary, but solid uses of Wave.
And it is working very well. By the way, the showed use cases are extremely good!
Links:
http://www.ateensblog.com
http://www.twitter.com/ateensblog
Full disclosure, I've only been trying to use Google Wave for a very limited time but again I'm confused as to how to make it useful to me.
Don't get me wrong I'm not knocking it, it's just so odd and doesn't yet have a flow to it (so to speak) that makes its value obvious. When you have to convince people to use something and the value isn't self-evident then it fails, it's the rule of the road..
I think the Open Source community is going to LOVE GoogleWave, they will see most of the value as will Universities and the like.
Imagine the following: What if the cash register after your next (or the one after :-) ) shopping will send you a wave, your cell will ask you for payment confirmation and that´s it? Or the fridge is sending some alert...of course all of those ideas are by far not new but the improved protocol being used has some great advantages.
best regards!
Imagine the following: What if the cash register after your next (or the one after :-) ) shopping will send you a wave, your cell will ask you for payment confirmation and that´s it? Or the fridge is sending some alert...of course all of those ideas are by far not new but the improved protocol being used has some great advantages.
best regards!
Jessou
www.ultimate-privacy.cz.tc
communicate and collaborate in real time.
communicate and collaborate in real Time.
Please send it to Jaxxtec (gmail account)
Thanks!