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Re: Google Wave Is Coming to the Workplace

wilsonhines — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:51:29 -0000

I started a contest to get my 16 invites out to the public, similar to what Gina Triponi did with invites over at smarterware.org. The idea is I don't just give an invite out to any one single person. What happens most of the time is they get on wave and are immediately hearing the crickets chirp because they don't know anybody on GW.
I am giving my 16 out to either a group, or smaller groups, of people who have a fantastic idea of how they will use Wave together in a business, small group, church or whatever.
Please read up at my site: http://wilsonhines.posterous.com

Re: Google Wave Is Coming to the Workplace

Avery Otto — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:00:29 -0000

Good for Novell but Pulse is not the first. See
http://www.dynamicalsoftwar... for in-depth coverage of the integration between Wave and Cogenuity.

Re: Google Wave Is Coming to the Workplace

hjingquan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:24:11 -0000

I'll communicate with your if you send me an invite.
Thanks. :)

Re: Google Wave Is Coming to the Workplace

John Lessnau — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:31:51 -0000

Google wave is just another assault on gathering and controlling as much data as possible. They already know too much about me. Do I want them to know what I am working on in real time also?

Re: Google Wave Is Coming to the Workplace

Avery Otto — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:18:48 -0000

Pulse isn't the first enterprise collaboration product to integrate with Google Wave. Cogenuity got there last month but Wave is still going through some growing pains. See http://www.dynamicalsoftwar... for an account of the good, the bad and the ugly.

Re: Google Wave Is Coming to the Workplace

bob ama — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:10:14 -0000

hurrah, all my pointless IM chats captured in one handy window!

Re: Google Wave Is Coming to the Workplace

mattrs — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:53:02 -0000

I don't care

Re: Google Wave Is Coming to the Workplace

Senderok Allen — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:20:07 -0000

Enterprise software makers do need to be improving their technology. We are also looking at enterprise software makers for the slightly similar and developing SenderOK technology that works on all major platforms including Outlook. Like xobni, we put a photo business card in the Email header pane with sender history. We also sort Email into prioritized virtual folders according to your past behavior and according to the anonymous behavior of others toward a particular sender.

Re: Google Wave Is Coming to the Workplace

StevenTheThinker — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:15:21 -0000

It's certainly interesting that Wave is being adopted by a company which has been quiet for a long time. However, this could be the way forward for collaborating, if not Google Wave on it's own.

I can see Wave having potential in a consumer environment, but in a business context I still believe that organizations will resist it unless it is wrapped up in a system which aids productivity. Many CEOs will see it as an alternative to IM which never quite took off in the corporate world in the way that it should.

With collaborative tools like www.glasscubes.com and www.zoho.com and the many, many others engrained in organizations (not forgetting large scale intranet installations), Wave is going to go a long way.

It'll be interesting to see which of the big boy collaboration/wiki tools gets hold of Wave though, it will happen but at the moment the question is who will be the first to invest time in something which as yet only ever gets requests for invites.

Re: Google Wave Is Coming to the Workplace

Jay Alter — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:16:27 -0000

Isn't that the truth! I keep sending myself waves since I can't get any of my personal invites to those whom I want to use Google Wave with!

Re: Google Wave Is Coming to the Workplace

Jay Alter — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:14:43 -0000

I received my Wave invite last Sat. Google isn't helping themselves by taking so long to get the invites out. When you first sign up it gives you a wave where you can invite upto 20 other people. To date none of the 10 people I have sent personal invites to have received them. So basically Wave is useless to me because I can't use it to communicate with anyone BUT those who are also using wave, which in my case is NO ONE I know because Google won't get the invites I sent out to the my friends.

Re: Google Wave Is Coming to the Workplace

techsnaps — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:31:38 -0000

If this could somehow replace their gawd-awful Groupwise adventure, I'm all for it. Ditch their proprietary setup and go full-bore into business-oriented collaboration software built on Google Wave technology. This should give them that 0.1% chance to be relevant again. Yeah, when's the last time you heard about Novell in a progressive company?

Re: Google Wave Is Coming to the Workplace

Claudius — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:11:22 -0000

Thanks for sharing. Are there any pictures of the product out there? Send my google wave invite to claudiuswaveinvite@gmail.com

Re: Google Wave Is Coming to the Workplace

Kunle Campbell — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:00:34 -0000

I'm still not that impressed with the collaborative features of Google Wave TBH

Re: Google Wave Is Coming to the Workplace

Tim — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:51:56 -0000

What I don't quite get is why the concern over its "business" potential, as though that were some kind of measure of worthiness. Wave is a great protocol, not just for being new but for bringing to life everything that XMPP should have been for some time (try finding a jabber client that groks groups *and* whiteboards *and*...), and we are only just seeing the teeniest firstfruits of gadget & robot development for it as a platform. This remains, whether "the business world" understands it or not. I think the protocol itself, as a fusion of IM and document, makes a rather empty space - a blank canvas - that leaves a lot to the user to work out how to do.
Funnily enough, it seems to incline itself towards business rather than personal use, because historically conversation with friends over IM has been free-flowing, while the most obvious way to use wave is to theme one's conversations into directed threads corresponding to projects.

Re: Google Wave Is Coming to the Workplace

Brandon_Sheley — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:47:34 -0000

I was sent an invite yesterday, waiting to get it :)
after that, I would be happy to chat with ya

Re: Google Wave Is Coming to the Workplace

ubeeno — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:46:31 -0000

Amazing, Google Wave just keeps on gettin better!

Jess
www.private-web.se.tc

Re: Google Wave Is Coming to the Workplace

metzgerbusiness — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:44:40 -0000

I'll communicate with your if you send me an invite. :)

Re: Google Wave Is Coming to the Workplace

jmproffitt — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:40:36 -0000

So Novell is going to integrate it. Next year. Great. That's what... an extra 100 users?

Seriously though... Wave will really ONLY have any possible purpose in business. In a consumer context it's overkill unless they make something that fits more use cases.

Re: Google Wave Is Coming to the Workplace

Brandon_Sheley — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:32:51 -0000

It'll be nice when all my co-workers have it, it's sort of boring to be the only one using it.