Google Wave
Nov28OK now that I have been playing around with Google wave for a while now, I will give my thoughts on it.
Google WAve looks to be a very useful tool for collaborating and Brain storming
Collaboration: Google Wave can be used much easier than regular email. You can have everyone on the same wave and interact in real time, instead of waiting to receive an email. With Gmail or any other email system you have to wait until the email is received in your inbox, but with Wave you can see the others typing in the wave. This makes Collaboration very easy and very fast. Also another great tool or extension for collaboration is the iframe extension. With this you can add a google docs page into the wave and have everyone edit it in real time, instead of sending it back and forth over email
Clicl here for the video showing it in work
You can also use the iframe extension for embedding any website, such as Google.com, a blog or a news site. http://wave-ide.appspot.com/iframe.xml
Brain Stormimg: Another great extension that you cna use now is the Brain Storm extension. This is good way to collect people’s thoughts on a project: http://www.madin.jp/gadget/index.xml
click here for the video
There are a whole lot of ways you can use Google wave in a collaborative blogging situation, news site situation, educational situation and many more uses.
There are some downfalls as of right now. It is slow at times since it is on a server used by google for everyone. In the future you will be able to host it on your own cloud. There are still some bugs in the system also. Sometimes you can not see if someone is online or not. And the invite only it is hard to get everyone you want on it.
But in all I think it will be a very useful tool for collaboration. education and various other situations in the future.
I will keep on playing around with it some more and probably have some more reviews later on.
Give us your thoughts on Google Wave.
Author : Doug Welch
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Some tutorials for Wave - Business & Technology says:
November 30, 2009 at 10:59 pm[...] This will probably the first installment as I play around more with Google Wave. This is just the basics, along with the post I did before on Google Wave and collaboration and Brain Storming. [...]
Some tutorials for Wave | Stix Blog ver 4.0 says:
November 30, 2009 at 11:10 pm[...] I play around more with Google Wave. This is just the basics, along with the post I did before on Google Wave and collaboration and Brain Storming. About
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