Comments on: Wave Overload – Does Anyone Still Use This Thing?

By: A Guy

A Guy — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:16:10 +0000

Google Wave is just an empty space when I log in. Although many of my GMail friends have signed up for Google Wave, it still seems pretty useless. We joked around on it for a couple days, and haven’t touched it since. Also, the interface seems a bit sticky to me.

By: Eelke

Eelke — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:12:23 +0000

“but then someone brought up the point that maybe hosting proprietary info on Google’s servers was a bad idea”

haha, that’s funny. you also refuse to send e-mail to gmail accounts? who KNOWS what might happen to their contents!

By: Olly

Olly — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:04:50 +0000

We all see the POTENTIAL but we’re struggling to find value today.

By: john Reeves

john Reeves — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:27:28 +0000

Sorry bout this second post, I forgot to check the email me box :)

By: john Reeves

john Reeves — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:25:05 +0000

I disagree entirely with the article. If you can’t at least see that wave is better than email even with its current features, you are blind. Not having people to use it with is just the nature of a closed beta. But come on, as soon as anyone can use it and someone has written an apparently that reads waves and sends traditional emails, this completely replaces email for anyone that wants to use it. And on top of that, its IM, docs, collaboration and more. It works as a sort of glue service, and its open nature means anyone can host it or write Apps for it.

I’m just amazed so few people in here see the potential in this.

By: Mi semana en los blogs (1) | 140 Palabras

Mi semana en los blogs (1) | 140 Palabras — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:47:15 +0000

[...] Y por último, en Caídos de la Realidad me pidieron que cambie el estilo. Por eso se me ocurrió comentarles un poco más sobre el Office 2010 y dejar bien el claro que no le veo utilidad a Google Wave (ellos tampoco). [...]

By: Suzy Oge

Suzy Oge — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:53:26 +0000

I laugh now remembering that I told my husband I would cancel a planned weekend in Paris if I got my Wave invite on the Friday before. That was 6 weeks ago and oh so anti-climatic(the wave, not the weekend).

But based on Kevin’s comment & endorsement above(the only positive one), I will give it a shot with a colleague on Wave for a fresh approach to a new project!

By: Alex Wilhelm

Alex Wilhelm — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:38:14 +0000

Indeed, any time.

By: Ray Schroeder

Ray Schroeder — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:30:31 +0000

At the University of Illinois at Springifield, we are busy creating collaborations among classes, researchers, professors. One of the most interesting experiments is to join classes from different universities. For example, we are doing a wave with students at a college in Ireland; working together on two week projects. This works seamlessly – no tuition, logon, software licensing, registration, or other hassles to get these students to share perspecitves and the geo-specific nuances of what they have learned with others. It’s also great for the profs to expand their perspectives and knowledge! Think Biology students discussing bio-ethics with classical Philosophy-trained students at different universities.

Also, as your posting suggested, we are fostering collaborations among researchers at distant institutions in synchronous and asynchronous ways with easy data, audio, video, editing, polling, etc. toolsets that were not easily accessible across institutional boundaries. The possibilities are enormous.

By: Shawn Hickman

Shawn Hickman — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:10:00 +0000

Nick, I couldn’t have said it any better. It seems like so many people are hating on a product that isn’t even close to being finished. Seriously, if you don’t see the potential in Google Wave then you are blind.