What I'm wondering is whether Google Wave could serve as an extremely interactive form of media... Could I create a "wave" with many hundreds or thousands of participants and moderate an ongoing conversation? Could it serve as a platform for large, dynamic communities?
alanrosenblith
· 3 months ago
We could use google wave as a springboard to rapid adoption of metacurrency: http://metacurrency.org/
Name
· 3 months ago
Shameless plug
alanrosenblith
· 3 months ago
Let me expand then... 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. In this case, by currency I mean more than traditional money. I mean any way of "keeping score" (i.e. measuring the creation of value in various forms). 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.
ekosdaq
· 2 months ago
Quite interesting...I bookmarked your site.
Anthony Bynoe
· 3 months ago
The ability to comment on youtube from wave as was mentioned could easily include all the other services like picassa etc. How about commenting on Mashable becoming more like being back in a old chatroom, with posted comments being quickly replied to. Being able to collaborate with Google Docs and Calender with colleagues would also be a much welcomed feature to have. If there is one question I have a about Wave is whether Google would have mobile applications interacting with wave limited to Android or will it be open for any mobile platform to access.
dainathomas
· 3 months ago
That would be really easy and track could be kept ... I just cant wait to use it and explore it .. I hope I get the invitation ... Cheers, Daina
Carlos
· 3 months ago
Cant wait to use Waves!
Aaron
· 3 months ago
This is gonna be good. I've been wanting it for months now, geif it to us google!
SEOWhiteHatMedia
· 2 months ago
Yep very excited about using Wave, great post Ben
climenole
· 3 months ago
Hi Ben Parr :)
Just a short comment to say how this post is awesome. Google Wave? I want it asaaaaaap! :)
BTW, I always learn new things in your articles: you're #1 in my blog list. Thank you. :-)
Aaron Hardison
· 3 months ago
I am interested to see the first wave advertising platform.
Scott
· 3 months ago
Aaron: I'm interested too. What sort of value do think Wave can give advertisers that they can't get now?
ZacharyColbert
· 2 months ago
Real time advertising? So when you're dicussing a shopping trip with your friends for some new Trainers, up pops a little Nike or Reebok ad for their local stores and any current discounts or sales offers. Similarly you mention you'll want to eat out, up pops a Nandos ad, or Google map with local eateries highlighted, then you mention you want pizza so it refines the options to pizza places. Very few people enjoy advertising but this hyper targeted advertising will at least be relevant to your wave's topic of conversation.
malmad
· 3 months ago
looks like twazzup in a way.
kenwooi
· 3 months ago
cool stuff.. can't wait to try it out! =)
EminemsRevenge
· 3 months ago
Hurry up and release an OS system so that WE can be released from the yoke of Microsoft!
EricVP
· 3 months ago
I would like my company to adopt it as our internal IT/Software support system.
allofcraigs.com
· 3 months ago
real-time....spam? can't moderate real-time, unless you want to sit in front of a computer all day.
But, overall, this is going to be great.
Scott Herbert
· 3 months ago
On the sandbox spam is deleted by other users of the wave, and the spammer is kicked out.
Anders
· 3 months ago
Yeah, I was thinking about the moderation issue too. Most forums for example have several people acting as moderators. But as you pointed out, moderation in real-time is probably at least more difficult than moderation of more static kinds of user-generated content such as forum posts. Or maybe by using some clever undo-redo functions, moderation of Google Waves will be easier. And instead of assigning separate moderators, all users who have write access to a wave could potentially act as moderators (just by editing each other's content).
mlopezfm
· 3 months ago
Cant wait to try this out. I'm really hoping i get my invite on the 30th.
Anders
· 3 months ago
One problem that I don't know if Google Wave solves, and perhaps even makes worse, is moderation of user-generated content. AI algorithms have hardly yet become clever enough to be able to handle moderation in for example a Google Wave. Therefore, for sites where content is generated by end users in reasonably large amounts, manual moderation done by humans is still needed, often 24/7 and sometimes in several different languages.
tadpoleontheweb
· 3 months ago
As much as I enjoy using Basecamp, I'm really curious to see if Wave is robust enough to replace many of the key features of that collaboration system if only to save on the monthly fee.
sujit
· 3 months ago
Eagerly waiting for Google wave launch.....! But when I got a chance to play around it using a developers account,apart from contextual communication with drafting nothing seems to be working properly.Also it stopped working so many times and also requesting frequently for url bug post. I had tried to play around it with my friend,we have tried so many different things as shown in wave video but nothing was working properly.Was quite a lot surprised & disappointed by this. I hope Google developers have fixed most of the bugs and soon I will get a Cool Google wave account...!
Scott Herbert
· 3 months ago
It was very buggy when I first got my developer account, however It's a lot better now then it was. It (fingers crosses) should hold up and be ready for prime-time.
sujit
· 3 months ago
lets hope good :)
mybrutegame
· 3 months ago
Wave sounds amazing. I can't wait for it!
sujit
· 3 months ago
Real-time customer support? Yeah, someone please build that.... check this out http://bit.ly/3D4SZ9
OK, how can people send you something on Google Wave? Do they give you an e-mail address like whatever@googlewave.com?
that would be pretty nice. :)
Name
· 2 months ago
In Wave 'Sending' ceases to be part of the vocabulary. Create a wave, add a user, insert content - done! The user has the content. Then they add content themselves and you have it automatically. None of the content is actually 'sent' to anyone, they just have it.
JD
· 1 month ago
That's nice, but this whole thing is a little too high-level and handwaving-y for me. Let's get down to the nuts and bolts. HOW do you "add a user"? How are they uniquely identified? How do they authenticate themselves? How do they "just have it"? How do they get notified that they have it? Where does it live?
Anvesh Gopalam
· 3 months ago
Waiting to ride the wave!!
Steve Evans
· 3 months ago
If Wave could just become my communications dashboard I'll be happy enough! Somewhere that I can manage email, Twitter, blog comments, IM, feeds etc all in one app and be able to pull friends from each channel into one Wave for discussion.
It could come into its own around collaboration though. Being able to dip in and out of other Waves and save/send/share/publish them is going to be really useful.
ssaadahmed
· 3 months ago
I am just wondering what a boon it could be for marketers. Not only do they get a real time feed of all that is being said, discussed, reported etc about their brands, they also get to address the issues in real time! This also means though that there would be so much more pressure for a shorter turn around time for query resolution. Another one of the greatest benefits I foresee is the use of Waves as a project management/tracking tool. From smaller things like the "minutes of a meeting" to all the blue prints designed and discussed you will actually have all of it in one large Wave. No more pains to document lengthy meetings and discussion :)
Steve Evans
· 3 months ago
The project management angle could get really interesting with Docs integration. It could very easily become a competitor for Sharepoint, Basecamp and other collab tools if Google (or developers) choose to take it that way.
zafarali
· 3 months ago
how will i get invited to use wave? ive signed up but ive not got a beta invite
lagspike
· 3 months ago
the invites get sent out on 30th September, but only 100,000 people will get invited.
I would really like to see how porno industry exploits this new wave...can Google make some magic there to make the wave more safe for non-adults? or protecting waves from spammers? We need a strong moderation and intelligence in wave to filter these internet havocs.
jeff
· 3 months ago
Wave as a comment system: It's all good until somebody says something stupid...
We all hopefully realize the value of the owner/moderator being able to delete stupid/offensive/spam comments. There would need to be a safeguard option to permanently remove the bad comment from the playback. Otherwise, the comment just lives on in the collective memory of anyone in or joining the wave, where it could still cause problems.
Scott Herbert
· 3 months ago
Hi jeff, infact anyone who's a member of the wave (or anyone with a wave account if it's a public wave) can edit and/or delete comments.
Cindy Cotter
· 3 months ago
I would love to use it to track the Santa Ana winds from their origin in the Great Basin, through the Sierra Nevada mountains, across Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Diego and out to sea. I'm imagining photos of the high desert, accounts of the wind whipping through narrow canyons, fire storms in the chapparal, audio, video, weather reports, personal anecdotes, and then a quiet Santa Ana fog.
Craig Stark
· 3 months ago
Have to read all the fine print- how will google monetize the platform/ tools and what will be the limiting factors to corporate adoption? Seems like a great boon for SME's - again there will be caveats someplace. Support? Dev costs? undocumented surveillance? Silly ads?
Pierreism
· 3 months ago
Wave for President?
silpol
· 3 months ago
let's see how pr0n industry embraces it ;)
Scott Herbert
· 3 months ago
OK I guess my first comment was deleted as someone thought it was spam, sorry, not intended. Any way here's the second part (the part that's isn't about my Wave component)
...
My partner spends a good chunk of time fleshing research ideas out with her colleges in the US (she an academic currently living in the UK but originally from the US) via Skype, and also taking notes of her discussion, her colleges however can't see throes notes till she e-mail then (a traditional wiki tends to time out after 6 hrs...) enter Wave...
brianhoffman
· 3 months ago
Google Wave will basically solve the world's problems.
animalbrad
· 3 months ago
A Wave could be used for a lot of good things. Then again, it could be used for bad as well. I can't wait however.
WaveGames
· 3 months ago
Games. Online games. Browser based games.
Like every tech, first porn, then games.
Games over Wave. It will be huuuuuge!
Joe Kohli
· 3 months ago
I have to confess that I still don't get Google Wave. I continue to view it more as a curiousity than game changing app. I hope I am pleasantly surprised.
jakrose
· 3 months ago
Where does the 100,000 Google Wave invites number come from? Is this a google accounts total estimate or a publicized number of invites?
andre
· 3 months ago
My suggestion is to use the contribution tracking principle to show who and how value was added as the wave matures. The idea is to apply it to an IDEATION, INCUBATION, REFINEMENT, DEVELOPMENT, OPERATIONALISATION, EXPANSION, etc processes. Tracking the value added to a business idea from inception to world domination, with all contributions accounted for throughout all waves ever created by the conversations in that 'empire'. Small Seed -> maybe - andre.n.venter@gmail.com
sujit
· 3 months ago
It will be great if there will be a way to "express" in wave comments, like smiles or any other way.There should be a way to express human feelings during communication thread. E.g like if I want to post a message and I want to express my feelings that I am so much excited. With existing comments one can not express his/her feelings.
sachin
· 3 months ago
great insights into Wave..thanks
Edwin Martin
· 3 months ago
Google Wave will be ideal for code reviews. What are code reviews? Code reviews are used among software developers to review and improve each others code. Code reviews work really well, but current software is far from perfect and Google Wave seems like a good replacement.
Munish
· 3 months ago
Check out how google wave will change the way we collaborate. http://bit.ly/3dwPo6
hkempfert
· 3 months ago
Hi, i would like to use google wave to document my sabbatical. it will start in 6 month with traveling by motorbike from hamburg (germany) to cape town (south africa). with google wave i want so share my route (gps-data), video, pictures, blog, couchsurfing.com with an interessted community. i paid the journeycost by myself, but want to use my journey to collect money from sponsors for social projects in africa, which could be choosen from betterplace.org. if the social projetcs are on my may down to cape town, i will manage a stopp and will report the actually status of the project. i think google wave will be the powerful tool to mashup all these parts for my projects, and in fact, i hope it will work with a thin bandwidth, like ist is found in north & east africa. hoope it will work, and hobe i'll get an invitation ;-)
best regards
hendrik
ps: if someone has information about traveling by motorbike in africa, please don't hestitate to contact me ;-)
Free Wii Points
· 3 months ago
Google has always been changing the web. They use almost 2% of the world's servers.
tsenfine
· 3 months ago
good
dieterd
· 3 months ago
when r u gonna give me the invitation?
prap
· 3 months ago
Google Rules!!
prap
· 3 months ago
Google Rules!!
Sharon Peters
· 3 months ago
As a team leader of Teachers Without Borders Canada, I would have used the Wave as we planned our workshops for teachers in Africa in July and August 09. Our team is made up of educators who live all over North America. We met synchronously weekly over skype, but used google docs, wikis, google talk, email and skype groups to share information and plan. The Wave would permit us to keep all that disparate information on one common platform and thus be able to coordinate and collaborate more effectively and efficiently. Bring on the Wave! Would love to be invited! Where can I sign up for an invitation?
Regarding the comments it would also be great to follow all the blogs, where one had placed comments in the wave inbox. That way only had to look one place for updates.
Spike
· 3 months ago
A running commentary of a politician's quotes. It will make it difficult to waffle on something any one can read their quotes and ask them why they changed their mind.
dhirajch
· 3 months ago
Yes really a great change on the web,a few days back i saw a video on youtube too.. then just tried really fantastic.
Virtual Miss Friday
· 3 months ago
Great post - bring it on....
facebook-711176280
· 2 months ago
HI Guys! Thanks for this great comments! I went to see Lars speaking last week about Google Wave and he answered many questions left unanswered to me. I wrote a post about it here : http://www.bruceclay.com.au/blog/archives/2009/...
Thanks Mashable for keeping us updated.
Cheers!
charles rinehart
· 2 months ago
Great story here. I'm looking forward to anything Google puts out.
Design Manchester
· 2 months ago
Im really excited to give this a go too!
josh
· 2 months ago
I plan on using it for my business... We have a team of individuals and communicating and collaborating isn't always easy. We use google apps and I assume that wave will tie in email and docs.
Kayla
· 2 months ago
I can't wait for Google wave to come out for better business management. I plan to communicate with my clients this way and take advantage of the other features for better communication and project development.
Kevin Wilson
· 2 months ago
Thanks for sharing
ajweb
· 2 months ago
What about this: Use Wave as the model and control part of any app. Say, for example: I need to build a custom cms for a company to manage their workflow. In this example, they need to store information about their clients in the shape of notes, pdfs, jpgs, etc, grouped projects for each client.
I could easy see (although not yet how to implement it) how to store this data on wave, and with their API it would be extremely easy to transform that data in to useful tables, diagrams, graphics, or use the XML files to make it even more impresive via a Flex UI.
I think it could be the information store system for the near future, and that's probably what google will try to make of it, in time.
Samantha Negus
· 2 months ago
I think Wave will bring about some really fun new games, and remakes of old ones.
atimmer
· 2 months ago
Can't we program web applications in it? With a robot that takes the wave, ingnore's internal replies and uploads it to an ftp server you could use it to work on a file with an unlimited amount of people.
Paul Vincent
· 2 months ago
Number 5. is of particular interest to me. Our college is home-study based and this kind of social platform is just what's been needed in the distance learning market for some time.
anranga
· 1 month ago
So the Wave allows a livemeeting to be run? Could you share an app and give a demo/presentation?
work at home
· 1 month ago
I have been listening about google wave products, but do not use it till now. I have not much knowledge about this products.
Ana
· 1 month ago
Just send me invitation! :)
WebtechNepal
· 1 month ago
Very Interesting and exciting development from Google.
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· 1 month ago
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charanjit
· 1 month ago
I think Real time customer support would be a killer app for Google Wave. At http://creately.com we're just starting to use Google Wave to engage better with our customers and hopefully deliver a better experience. It's still early days but until we start applying it to our daily use cases, we wont be able to build the next killer app for the Wave platform. Thoughts on our blog - http://creately.com/blog/customer/do-you-google...
distances
· 1 month ago
nice, but do you GET the point that integrating 3rd party systems you lose traffic?
Elucid Marketing Group
· 3 weeks ago
I like the idea of Google Wave, but having trouble setting up all my contacts. I would love to import from Twitter, Facebook or Myspace... anyone know how to do this? You can add me to your wave, my email is elucidmarketing@gmail.com Thanks & Great Post!
jamesandrewbrown
· 2 weeks ago
Has anyone any views on how Google Wave will impact on Internet Marketing and how webmasters could use it to promote their websites and drive visitors to their websites or ecommerce sites?
All Comments
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. In this case, by currency I mean more than traditional money. I mean any way of "keeping score" (i.e. measuring the creation of value in various forms). 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.
Being able to collaborate with Google Docs and Calender with colleagues would also be a much welcomed feature to have.
If there is one question I have a about Wave is whether Google would have mobile applications interacting with wave limited to Android or will it be open for any mobile platform to access.
Cheers,
Daina
Just a short comment to say how this post is awesome.
Google Wave? I want it asaaaaaap! :)
BTW, I always learn new things in your articles: you're #1 in my blog list.
Thank you.
:-)
can't wait to try it out! =)
But, overall, this is going to be great.
http://bit.ly/3D4SZ9
Do they give you an e-mail address like
whatever@googlewave.com?
that would be pretty nice. :)
It could come into its own around collaboration though. Being able to dip in and out of other Waves and save/send/share/publish them is going to be really useful.
We all hopefully realize the value of the owner/moderator being able to delete stupid/offensive/spam comments. There would need to be a safeguard option to permanently remove the bad comment from the playback. Otherwise, the comment just lives on in the collective memory of anyone in or joining the wave, where it could still cause problems.
...
My partner spends a good chunk of time fleshing research ideas out with her colleges in the US (she an academic currently living in the UK but originally from the US) via Skype, and also taking notes of her discussion, her colleges however can't see throes notes till she e-mail then (a traditional wiki tends to time out after 6 hrs...) enter Wave...
Like every tech, first porn, then games.
Games over Wave. It will be huuuuuge!
Tracking the value added to a business idea from inception to world domination, with all contributions accounted for throughout all waves ever created by the conversations in that 'empire'. Small Seed -> maybe - andre.n.venter@gmail.com
i paid the journeycost by myself, but want to use my journey to collect money from sponsors for social projects in africa, which could be choosen from betterplace.org. if the social projetcs are on my may down to cape town, i will manage a stopp and will report the actually status of the project. i think google wave will be the powerful tool to mashup all these parts for my projects, and in fact, i hope it will work with a thin bandwidth, like ist is found in north & east africa. hoope it will work, and hobe i'll get an invitation ;-)
best regards
hendrik
ps: if someone has information about traveling by motorbike in africa, please don't hestitate to contact me ;-)
Thanks Mashable for keeping us updated.
Cheers!
I need to build a custom cms for a company to manage their workflow. In this example, they need to store information about their clients in the shape of notes, pdfs, jpgs, etc, grouped projects for each client.
I could easy see (although not yet how to implement it) how to store this data on wave, and with their API it would be extremely easy to transform that data in to useful tables, diagrams, graphics, or use the XML files to make it even more impresive via a Flex UI.
I think it could be the information store system for the near future, and that's probably what google will try to make of it, in time.
I have not much knowledge about this products.
Gotta be deserving to get it though.
http://openwaver.blogspot.com/2009/11/all-8-inv...