Comments on: Google Wave – How it might work (if we stop moaning)

By: Lauren Fisher

Lauren Fisher — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:09:35 +0000

I started off by loving Google Wave – trying out all the features and using it regularly to communicate with people. This has tailed off massively in the past few weeks though, I rarely log in at all. I found that while I was talking to people on there, soon this just migrated back to Twitter or email. The biggest problem is that I don’t need another site to check, when I can get all the functionality on other sites that I use already. I’ve no doubt that I’ll go back to it in the future (the honeymoon period is over for me) but right now, I’ve no real need to.

By: Google Wave for Architects « Building

Google Wave for Architects « Building — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:22:22 +0000

[...] Butcher (@subutcher on twitter) has written a post on Red Cube Marketing’s blog covering the features in some detail, and how it can be used to [...]

By: Su Butcher

Su Butcher — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:26:01 +0000

Hi Jim,
Have you tried searching at with:public with the extra term Copenhagen?

If there isn’t a wave doing what you want, why not set one up yourself?

I often find if I do something online several people say, oh yes, I was wondering about that…

By: Su Butcher

Su Butcher — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:01:01 +0000

My google wave address is
su.butcher@googlewave.com

If you know someone’s googlemail address just use the same name@googlewave.com

By: Are you using Google Wave? — Just Practising

Are you using Google Wave? — Just Practising — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:14:37 +0000

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By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:08:25 +0000

I’m still not hearing a killer use. I’ve been waiting for the last three weeks since I’ve been on to hear of a conversation/wave related to, say, Copenhagen where people
- got to know one another
- hashed out a document
- planned a meeting

Do these things happen? With google docs, I had half-used it before this fall, w/o success, but then worked in a four-person collective where everyone could use it well– and got to see how we could use it to create common spreadsheets (public or closed), docuemnts, minutes, etc.

Haven’t seen how Wave even competes with Google Docs yet. Or supplements it!

By: redcubemarketing

redcubemarketing — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:32:10 +0000

Romany, you’re right. The key is finding the people to collaborate and connect with and the search function isn’t quite there yet.

Feel free to add your Wave addresses here if you want to build up your contacts people. Mines gemmawent@googlewave.com.

By: redcubemarketing

redcubemarketing — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:28:59 +0000

Neil, I agree. When time is of the essence I run out of patience if I have to spend too long working new applications out, particularly when you’re used to the intuitive nature of Apple’s products. Sometimes it’s worth sticking it out though.

By: Romany Thresher

Romany Thresher — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:24:05 +0000

I agree this is a very well written blog about Google Wave. I was given an invitation on Google Wave when the invites were release and I found it very frustrating in the beginning because I could not Wave with anyone. At first I was really excited about being on Google Wave and then lost interest all together, waving alone wasn’t fun but maybe its time to re visit Google Wave.

PS. I think Google should consider adding in a much easier search method to find people. Something similar to Facebook to make it easy to find others.

By: Luke O'Rafferty

Luke O'Rafferty — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:55:18 +0000

Nice one Su. I agree that a lack of users has definitely made it a difficult start – it’s hard to collaborate by yourself! Thanks for the further explanations though, I haven’t the chance/reason to really dig into Wave just yet but I definitely want to start using it.