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Anyone using Google Wave regularly?

Written on January 7, 2010 by socialmediabirmingham in Uncategorized

Last night I received and invite to a Linkedin group attempting to organize scattered Google Wave users.

Now, I remember when Google Wave invites were all the rage and trust me, I got mine. But I never found it very useful, mainly because I haven’t used it. It’s an extra window. And while I open extra tabs like bunnies reproduce, it’s just not convenient.

Had Wave had some sort of integration with my CURRENT gmail account (besides namesake) I think it might have taken over the world by now. I mean, Wave is a great concept. But it’s kinda like Sheldon from Big Bang Theory, Awesome logic – next to zero practicality.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I still plan to use it. I think it will be great to be able to quote people from interviews. And I would love to see more wide-spread use, I just don’t see it integrating into my daily workflow anytime soon…

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  • http://oswco.com dartdog

    I agree with your comments and criticisms about Wave. I use only occasionally for these same reasons. But it is truly Beta and I hope these things are coming and those who are active early will probably get the advantage, if any is to be had.

  • http://occamsrazr.com Ike Pigott

    Like all innovative technologies, we won't know how to properly use Wave until the porn industry shows us how.

  • http://www.themeweaver.net/ Bill Robbins

    I'm not holding my breath on Google getting Wave out of beta anytime before say 2015 (hello gmail was in beta for ages).

    I also don't know if it will ever be too much of my communications workflow unless it is possible to use it with some sort of desktop client. Seeing how that runs contrary to Google's apparent business model, I may not ever use it.

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  • http://twitter.com/shanehunter Shane Hunter

    Yea… Google wave….. about that….

    I logged in once, and couldn't see why it existed.

  • http://rickandmolly.com/ Rick

    I've got an account, but without any sort of notification system, I rarely remember to check it. A time I used it was when I was planning a trip to Chicago last month. Me and my buddies Waved away and planned the thing out. It was pretty useful then. As for everyday sort of use, I can't think of much reason to use it. It's more for collaboration and project building, you know?

  • http://loo.no/ Lars O. Overskeid

    I agree to your points about Google Wave being another window, and the “dedicated” wave clients like waveboard still lacks some speed and usability to be as good as Chrome.

    However, the concept, as you say, is great. Where I work, we've come to adopt Google Wave as our primary communication tool internally, and have also started testing it out with some of our customers. The whole idea behind Wave is a bit too new for some of our customers, but others are getting comfortable real fast.

    Google Wave already gives us CRM (Tracking leads, contracts etc), Knowledge Base (Best practices, routines) and the daily “oh, have you read this cool article?” posts that we used to send on IM clients or mail. I've sent about 3 internal mails since October :)

  • http://www.modena135.com/ Christopher Miller

    This is not an ad. I am just a big fan of Gina Trapani and thought you all would find this useful. It is a great guide to using Google Wave.

    http://completewaveguide.com/

    You can also find Gina on the This Week in Google Podcast on Leo Laporte's twit.tv network.

  • http://www.modena135.com/ Christopher Miller

    This is not an ad. I am just a big fan of Gina Trapani and thought you all would find this useful. It is a great guide to using Google Wave.

    http://completewaveguide.com/

    You can also find Gina on the This Week in Google Podcast on Leo Laporte's twit.tv network.