How do you go about adding contacts? Can you communicate with a regular email address, or are you limited to Wave users only?
web2marketing
· 6 months ago
This is also the most important question for me! No one answered it yet!!
Farfield
· 6 months ago
Yes, I really wonder how it handles communication with non-wave users via email. Can you do this at all? What does it look like ot the email side?
s
· 6 months ago
someone from the wave team said on twitter that they integrated email with google wave (http://twitter.com/tirsen/statuses/1965990190). probably in that case, it acts as a email client. not sure how it handles rich media conversation with non-wave users.
Wendy Drexler
· 6 months ago
I'm looking at this as a potential personal learning environment. My question is whether you can choose to make a wave public so that anyone can respond to it. The demo makes it appear that you can post an existing wave on other sites (such as a blog), but can it be public from the beginning? Can a wave have a link similar to a Google Doc that anyone can respond to or join in the conversation?
Michel
· 6 months ago
Yes.
imma
· 6 months ago
public waves sound good but do you know if it'll be possible to set them to allow editing without login too? - for anonymous commenting
Californian
· 6 months ago
How funny, that was one of the ideas that I had, and I was thinking about public waves too! It would be beneficial in a lot of contexts. Invitation requests would be helpful too, but that's all of the ideas I want to give out for now.
nzjim
· 6 months ago
Even if it's not a core feature a public wave will only be as difficult as dragging in a robot to manage the publishing (like the blogger in the demo). There is no reason why this couldn't allow anonymous comments but this immediately invites spam such as any anonymous comment system.
web2marketing
· 6 months ago
How does wave handle communication with "non-wave" users (normal email etc.)? This is the most important question for me! If it´s just possible to communicate with other wave users, this will take YEARS to reach mainstream!
mateo
· 5 months ago
As I understand it, they are not hooking in to email in an effort to avoid spam (though I suspect a robot or extension would allow it before long). That said, at least for sending emails, you can copy and paste... yeah, not great, I know, but it is a workaround.
NetGuru
· 6 months ago
Is Wave similar to Yammer or Present.ly (or other enterprise microblogging tools)? Or am I too off?
Jesse Stay
· 6 months ago
Many of the features you are amazed about are already in FriendFeed. What's amazing about Wave is that it's a protocol, not just a product.
Anthony Farrior
· 6 months ago
It looks like friendfeed on steroids :)
mrrose
· 6 months ago
awesome, thanks guys. Now look, is there anyway *any* I can get my hands on this...c'mon, help a brother out...??
Unionhawk
· 6 months ago
So, uh... how exactly did you get to review it?
Ben Parr
· 6 months ago
Our resident genie gave us an extra wish. ;)
Diane
· 6 months ago
What if I'm hesitant to download Chrome? It gives me problems on certain Flash sites much like Firefox and Safari does. Is it a liability to run Wave in Vista?
holdenpage
· 6 months ago
Wave will run in any standards compliant web browser that plans adopting HTML 5 standards
Californian
· 6 months ago
The stable version of Chrome was significantly improved recently, so perhaps you should give it another try. Even if you don't want to use it for your primary browser, you could use it simply for Wave.
Peter Stuifzand
· 6 months ago
It looked to me that they used Chrome, Safari and Firefox in the demo presentation. You don't need to use Chrome, but you can.
Sam Ragnarsson
· 6 months ago
Good article. http://bit.ly/11yyME I really look forward to trying Wave. Offered to beta test, but no reply yet.
Peter Fletcher
· 6 months ago
Still wrapping my head around G-wave. Self-hosted blog? Done. Self-hosted Wave? Coming right up.
Tyler Gillies
· 6 months ago
can you invite people or does google have to do that?
Greg
· 6 months ago
Will Wave be compatible with gmail or other email services/IM services? Can I use Wave to communicate with friends that are not using it?
thegeniusfiles
· 6 months ago
Will it integrate with Google Apps for Your Domain?
sw
· 6 months ago
threaded email, what you call a no-brainer
is this a monopolising app?
holdenpage
· 6 months ago
no, it is a protocol technically. Wave is just an app built around this protocol
I'm not to sure about Wave... I think its target is more workplace related, it could be a great collaboration tool for work related issues.. this is my impression so far anyways :)
Andre Condurache
· 6 months ago
anyways great review!
Grant
· 6 months ago
This product isn't even out yet and you are already sucking the teet. I hope you don't flood the front page with this like you did Twitter :(
Robinson
· 6 months ago
Of course they are not going to admit "Google saw the email protocol had no owner, so decided to capitalize in hopes of replacing it and making bank".
They have to suck the teet, Google won't let them play with any of their monopolistic new toys ever again.
Michel
· 6 months ago
I guess you missed the bit about how Wave is designed to be federated and is open source. And how they spend a good part of the demo showing how it can be re-branded and re-styled on other people's servers for free, and how those servers won't share any more data than is being deliberately communicated out.
Always be wary of bloatware solutions in search of a problem that no one else has stated.
Anthony Farrior
· 6 months ago
Does this have the potential to connect everything you do on the net the way Microsoft's Mesh is supposed to do? http://bit.ly/I6mKg
Arun
· 6 months ago
Waiting for getting my account. When this will be available for public for testing? Any idea?
dkearns72
· 6 months ago
What will likely be the most compelling reason, if any, for switching from proven platforms (email, Twitter, FB, etc)? Is that reason good enough for non early-adopters and non-techies?
Michel
· 6 months ago
I think it will really thrive in schools and businesses where there is too much separation between documents and communication.
For example, the common case where a group of people want to work on a document and publish it. What you usually get is someone creating a draft, followed by a flurry of fragmented emails and IMs where people are communicating amongst themselves, trying to make decisions. When it's all done, they publish the results by sending an email with a link or attachment. Even if they are using a collaborative tool to work on the doc, it can still be very hard to keep everyone on the same page with the communication.
The work flow with Wave is much more streamlined. Start a Wave, work on it together, publish it. It keeps all the communication about what you are working on with the work itself (replayable and in context), and it's easy to publish the results. You don't have to go back and forth between multiple systems. As a bonus, Wave makes it easier to capture feedback and make corrections too.
If you guys find out how we can be alpha testers, I would love to take part!
Mike Gensel
· 6 months ago
I would like to know if and how they plan on making this compatible with existing environments where email (smtp) is king. If not then it seems that this would be just another app to log in to.
Harish
· 6 months ago
The wave still needs great bit of refine in terms of how users will intuitively engage with the realtime nature of the application. Atleast this is what we found with the samepage.in platform that we created. Its a complete mind shift in the way people work today but is a complete paradigm shift for users.
Liz Teschler
· 6 months ago
I'm sick of reading about Google Wave - I make a motion for a moratorium on Wave articles until we get to try this damn thing out ourselves..... no fair!
David Turnbull
· 6 months ago
Lookin' good to me. Very excited for the launch.
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· 6 months ago
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Siktus Harson
· 6 months ago
you've explained it well Ben. i am excited to welcome the launching of the Google Wave.
rob allen
· 6 months ago
The user interface seems very complex - how well do you think it will translate to mobile devices?
Σχολή Χορού
· 6 months ago
The more i read, the more i think that after the abstract definition of web 2 we are about to witness a much more specific definition of web 3....
massimoburgio
· 6 months ago
Wow! Basecamp application? I want it now!!! =)
anthony68
· 6 months ago
I'm exited want to participate but cannot wait, it sounds cool, i have watched the demo and it was good. When is it open for public??
zafarali
· 6 months ago
tthis is going to be the best thing ever. lets hope it will replace email. i've got fed up of email. its soo spammy with messages from facebook and posterous and youtube and all that.
cj
· 6 months ago
i hope they incorporate mailing group features as well
Rick Osborn
· 6 months ago
Good overview of Google wave, but was wondering if anyone thought whether or not it would really be the next big social media thing. It takes a lot of time and effort now to keep up with Linked In and Twitter and Facebook. Should I get into Wave or should I for go it for the time being?
Rob
· 6 months ago
so...when this thing make sit big and we all start using as at our primary form of cummonication, how will we get our old email plugged into google wave?
Elizabeth K. Barone
· 6 months ago
Hmn, sounds like it could have some potential. It will be interesting to see how it will be received once it's launched. I think it's a little too early to tell, though; it could go either way! It definitely seems like something worth trying -- and definitely fun testing!
Abdul Gomaa
· 6 months ago
I can't wait for the wave to be released offically and for us to get our hands on their API!
I am already thinking up a perfect project which I can use all these features for! A very productive one too may I add :)
Will there an way for app developers to build their own additions? An open API kind of thing...
Ben Parr
· 6 months ago
The entire thing is open-source. You can build any extension on top of it.
Inoperante
· 6 months ago
Felt a bit lightweight did this review, but then I just read TechCrunch's first. TC seem to have had a later version of Wave - or is Mashable just more honest with its faults?
Basically, there are huge questions over this, but DAMN it has potential! Very exciting stuff.
Simon Mainwaring
· 6 months ago
Hey Ben,
Here's something that may interest you. You and Pete partly inspired it with your work on Google Wave. Great 3 articles so thanks. Plus Brian Solis' discussion of the Twitterverse. It's too long to post here. Hope all's well, Simon. "Powers of Ten" for the Twitterverse. http://adjix.com/6m9x
Olivier Madel-Felicite
· 6 months ago
Ben, Thank you for this insight on the Google Wave, according to your Wavetour, how do you see it transform, involve or add value to crowdsourcing model and platform?
Audrey
· 6 months ago
Can't wait to experience this.
Anu Bagga
· 6 months ago
Hi I have created a google wave robot but donot know how to test it. As per my knowledge a robot needs to be called via a wave and a wave can be created only via sandbox. I have requested for an acccess to the sandbox but havent got the access. Is there some way by which i can test the robot without the sandbox access
okhosting
· 5 months ago
Can't wait to try it
Sid
· 5 months ago
Uhh... can I get an invite please?
digitalpbk
· 4 months ago
Google wave cool, but slow ..
digitalpbk
· 4 months ago
Google wave cool, but slow ..
zoe
· 3 months ago
does it work too? :-P
Juliuz Beezer
· 3 months ago
I saw a demo which showed Google Wave running a lynx-like interface. Was it indeed running in lynx? "Looks good in lynx" is high praise for a contemporary web app IMHO.
Thewebtycoon
· 2 months ago
I'm converting a blogger blog to a Wordpress and if there is a Wordpress API of Google Wave, surely I will use it.
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Invitation requests would be helpful too, but that's all of the ideas I want to give out for now.
is this a monopolising app?
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They have to suck the teet, Google won't let them play with any of their monopolistic new toys ever again.
http://brisbane.at9t.com/
For example, the common case where a group of people want to work on a document and publish it. What you usually get is someone creating a draft, followed by a flurry of fragmented emails and IMs where people are communicating amongst themselves, trying to make decisions. When it's all done, they publish the results by sending an email with a link or attachment. Even if they are using a collaborative tool to work on the doc, it can still be very hard to keep everyone on the same page with the communication.
The work flow with Wave is much more streamlined. Start a Wave, work on it together, publish it. It keeps all the communication about what you are working on with the work itself (replayable and in context), and it's easy to publish the results. You don't have to go back and forth between multiple systems. As a bonus, Wave makes it easier to capture feedback and make corrections too.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Google-Wave--Twitter-twave
I am already thinking up a perfect project which I can use all these features for! A very productive one too may I add :)
www.whywebpr.blogspot.com
Ali Magnano
Basically, there are huge questions over this, but DAMN it has potential! Very exciting stuff.
Here's something that may interest you. You and Pete partly inspired it with your work on Google Wave. Great 3 articles so thanks. Plus Brian Solis' discussion of the Twitterverse. It's too long to post here. Hope all's well, Simon. "Powers of Ten" for the Twitterverse. http://adjix.com/6m9x
I have created a google wave robot but donot know how to test it.
As per my knowledge a robot needs to be called via a wave and a wave can be created only via sandbox.
I have requested for an acccess to the sandbox but havent got the access.
Is there some way by which i can test the robot without the sandbox access