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Joeof1

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What is Google Wave?

Google Wave is an online communication and collaboration tool that makes real-time interactions more seamless -- in one place, you can communicate and collaborate using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is a conversation with multiple participants -- participants are people added to a wave to discuss and collaborate on its content. Participants can reply any time and anywhere within a wave, and they can edit content and add more participants as a wave develops. It's also possible to rewind waves with the playback functionality, to see what happened, and when.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ
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Has anyone here actually used the beta of Google Wave as of yet? If so, what do you think of it?
 
Not yet, waiting for an invite hopefully. Not fully sold on it. I think it will take a while for the community to adapt to this tool. My worry is that it could be as bad as it is good. But I doubt that.
 
Wow this is incredible!
I can't believe how far google has advanced with technology.

If this is what the next generation of social networking will look like, then it would definitely make Facebook seem Jurassic.
 
i'm not seeing anything new here. all the things wave does, i'm already doing through different apps
 
you have an app that does on the fly language translation among multiple parties who are collaborating on a on a blog post that can be edited live from the chat window?

I'm convinced (kool ade) that the plugin architecture is going to let you do whatever your heart desires on it.
 
thujone said:
i'm not seeing anything new here. all the things wave does, i'm already doing through different apps
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Please tell me what application's do everything this propose's, and then tell me which one of them is Open Source....

I want the source code. I have a great implementation ready for it, just need the source code....:p
 
Pander Bear said:
you have an app that does on the fly language translation among multiple parties who are collaborating on a on a blog post that can be edited live from the chat window?

I'm convinced (kool ade) that the plugin architecture is going to let you do whatever your heart desires on it.
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hell im actually glad i don't. at least, until someone invents a smart translator that doesn't just give a rigid literal translation word by word. or, has google already done so? and why the hell would people collaborate on a blog? isn't that counter-intuitive?

google might be a smart but this is overstepping bounds and losing sight of what consumers value the most: choice. there's already plenty of variety when it comes to online communication and most people have already chosen the camps they're going to be loyal to. as a chat medium, wave seems kind of weak. all it's doing is amalgamating what exists into one, fluid interface.

a less obvious application of wave is social networking but given how weary people have become with facebook over privacy concerns and given how transparent google is... i just don't think it's innovative enough to overcome the obstacles and actually get people to standardize its use.
 
Amazing stuff; no telling what the Internet will look like in even a decade with developments like this. That live translation program...gee-zus. What a time to be alive!
 
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I've been playing with Wave. It's rather buggy at the moment, and for now, I'm not much of a fan. It seems to me to be an IM client on steroids, and a rather chaotic one at that - it's rather hard to follow a wave if more than one other person is in it, and it's very hard to pick up if you come in to a wave later.

However, I think it's potentially an interesting realtime collaboration tool, and it will be interesting to see what apps people write for it. Having said that, it could just end up being banned in offices as a giant time sink - Scoble is very down on it http://scobleizer.com/2009/10/01/google-wave-crashes-on-beach-of-overhype/ for that reason. Early days.

And I'm sorry, I don't have any more invites before you ask ...
 
Pander Bear said:
I suppose i presumed too much when I expected people who commented to know what they were talking about. ;)
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i'm confused. are you pulling my leg? on second thought, maybe i don't want to know O_o

muckypup said:
I've been playing with Wave. It's rather buggy at the moment, and for now, I'm not much of a fan. It seems to me to be an IM client on steroids, and a rather chaotic one at that - it's rather hard to follow a wave if more than one other person is in it, and it's very hard to pick up if you come in to a wave later.

However, I think it's potentially an interesting realtime collaboration tool, and it will be interesting to see what apps people write for it. Having said that, it could just end up being banned in offices as a giant time sink - Scoble is very down on it http://scobleizer.com/2009/10/01/goo...h-of-overhype/ for that reason. Early days.
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ahh, the sweet smell of vindication

Joeof1 said:
Please tell me what application's do everything this propose's, and then tell me which one of them is Open Source....

I want the source code. I have a great implementation ready for it, just need the source code....
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well let's see, wave should be able to handle forums in theory and we already have vbulletin which is, in this context, open source. symbian is being converted to open source as we speak (link) and hell some irc clients are open source too. i'm certain there must be open source clients that can connect to a variety of instant messaging services as well.

clearly, google wave being open source is not revolutionary in the least, just like none of it's other functions are revolutionary. this is clearly another technophile program that will be shat upon by the rest of the world until someone invents something genuinely useful out of the ashes of this poorly-polished turd
 
thujone said:
well let's see, wave should be able to handle forums in theory and we already have vbulletin which is, in this context, open source. symbian is being converted to open source as we speak (link) and hell some irc clients are open source too. i'm certain there must be open source clients that can connect to a variety of instant messaging services as well.
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Like I said. Show me applications that do what Goole Wave does. Having a forum is not even close to a persistent editable IM like this. Sybian is an operating systems, so I have no idea how that relates. IRC is great if you can keep the chan open.

clearly, google wave being open source is not revolutionary in the least, just like none of it's other functions are revolutionary. this is clearly another technophile program that will be shat upon by the rest of the world until someone invents something genuinely useful out of the ashes of this poorly-polished turd
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It is quite clear you are not the subject matter expert on this topic. What I have seen done on Wave is quite revolutionary, but you seem to have some sort of issue with Google itself.
 
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