Google Wave's Best Use Cases

http://lifehacker.com/5381219/google-waves-best-use-cases

by fogus • 17 years ago

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amichail• 17 years ago

Focusing just on collaboration would limit its market.

They should add reddit-like features for public waves.

TrevorJ• 17 years ago

Public waves will need some heavy hitting filtering tools to be handy, you are right about that.

Tangential note: I've noticed your comment and a few other comments being downvoted out of disagreement lately - as per the guidelines and for the sake of rich discussions, if you disagree with a comment it would be great if you could reply to it rather than just downvote it - that we we all get the benefit of your particular viewpoint and it contributes to the discussion.

Flemlord• 17 years ago

I'm interested in using it for software company support. I see it (possibly) replacing blog comments, forums and on-line chat.

jimboyoungblood3• 17 years ago

Wave sounds like a classic case of a solution searching for a problem.

sjs• 17 years ago

Why have you ruled out the possibility that it solves a problem you don't have?

jimboyoungblood3• 17 years ago

Perhaps it does. But if it did, I think we'd be seeing articles like "How I used Google Wave to get laid and make money", not speculative "What could Wave be possibly useful for?" articles like this one.

Wave is more confusing than it is inspirational. My first thought upon opening the invite was "wtf?", and after a few minutes of staring at it, "wtf?!?". Then I closed the window.

Maybe wave will become useful after a few iterations, but in its current incarnation it's in the same category as Yahoo Pipes. I.e., technically interesting/dazzling, but of little practical use.

unalone• 17 years ago

Gonna have to disagree with you there. Wave solves a slew of little nagging issues I have with other mediums all in one go.

jimboyoungblood3• 17 years ago

So are you actively using it? If so, what for?

motoko• 17 years ago

I don't understand how a more powerful message system will make email as "asynchronous queue of messages" obsolete.

As far as I know, gmail is a surface abstraction of wave between Google's private servers.

I do understand that most email tools suck, but that is the fault of the tools and email culture, not "asynchronous queue of messages."

gord• 17 years ago

My impression : 'Google Wave is nice to Kittens'. We all like kittens, right?

I replaced 'Google Wave' by 'Plone' or 'Blog' and the meaning seemed to be preserved... are they the same thing?

TheSOB88• 17 years ago

PLONE?? I don't know what that is, but that sounds like the next big thing in communications.

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