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Louis Gray — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:54:21 -0000

Thanks - while a lot of people thought my review of Wave was too negative, I think after the dust has settled... one can see that it provides great value, but also has a high tendency to get busy. I expect it will continue to improve, and it's very likely we will be quite impressed when it is complete.

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wine club — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:52:27 -0000

Interesting to go back to this review a couple of months in-pretty spot on. After a huge amount of initial hype everyone got caught up in the holiday season and the stories of $200 Apple tablets lol.

Google is doing a lot to improve information exchange right now, every little bit of improvement is definitely helpful.

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Zak — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:53:44 -0000

Wave DOES do that. The developer video shows it being used exactly that way.

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Ray Waldo — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:32:43 -0000

I did not think that Twitter would catch on either. Now, I have (& use) a Twitter account. However, I still believe that Twitter is ego-centric.

I just do not (yet) have enough info about Wave to know whether it can be useful or not. I am very happy with G-Voice and the other Google products so I am hopeful that G-Wave will also serve us well.

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Ray Waldo — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:15:50 -0000

Very helpful information about Wave. I still do not have an invite but your post has given me some guidelines that should help me not get frustrated as some others have.

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Paul — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:07:08 -0000

Been using Wave for a couple days now. Two words: re-tarded.

People are already so thoughtless about e-writing; if this catches on (which I doubt) it'll make things worse.

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Adelina Moura — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:24:50 -0000

Great tool.
I'm a teacher and I would like have the possibility to use Google Wave with my students and collegues at school. It's possible to have an invitation?

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Mark Essel — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:08:02 -0000

Great first hand review, incorporating some of your key insights into a post now with my own super charged communication addins :)

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Jason — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:52:42 -0000

I agree about IM. while I would like to have IM, if people see me online they will IM be just to chat. I don't want to "just chat." I'm working. I want to use IM for work. so now I just don't use IM. Instead, I've gone back to IRC if I want to get assistance with work topics.

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Holden Page — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:20:54 -0000

Lmao, perfect.

Love the response Louis

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Sherman Dorn — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:46:21 -0000

I would also think of Wave as hype except for a conversation with my daughter, who described an ideal online class environment as "a sort of chat/IM where you could see people as they're typing, and change your response based on it." If Google releases Wave where universities where students have Gmail, and allows some closure by contact sublist/group, I could imagine some highly effective environments for tutoring (definitely) and teaching (possibly).

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mintzwebdesign — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:21:44 -0000

Hi, I'm reading your blog for the first time, and as much as I enjoyed this post, the repartee below is wonderful. Like with my teenage son on facebook, people start writing, forgetting there's a person (or many) on the other side.
With a lot of the new applications, it's a big experiment, cast out to see what takes, adjusting along the way. I can't wait to try the wave. I'm sure it's interesting at the least. The challenge is - more and more - controlling our time, because it's all so seductive.
thanks,
Margie Mintz

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Afonso Ferreira — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:35:01 -0000

For the little I saw, Wave is absolutely GREAT! Could you possibly get me an invite, or could someone do that? My e-mail is at http://scr.im/fonzo - thanks! :D

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Alex Hager — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:01:39 -0000

I have already read scobleizers post and so i´m not that sad to have no invitation

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Justin Goldberg — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:08:19 -0000

When I first heard about it, I thought Wave's robots would replace the need to check myspace, twitter, facebook, gmail, and the forums I frequent every day (eg it would pull all those messages into one interface and timeline). Perhaps that functionality will be added by some enterprising developer?

I haven't used Wave yet, but does anyone else think this looks a lot like the OSAF Chandler app?

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Bary — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:57:34 -0000

To wave or not to wave

I was impressed by the demo, but at the same time I thought, where is this going. We just got used to social media and already it consumes more time and energy than ever before. Info stress is building and building. I don't see why Google Wave may enrich the lives of most people, as it may cost extra time and energy to follow (and playback) the amounts of waves.

So in stead of 'revolutionize' the web, I hope companies will focus more on what really makes our lives more enjoyable, looking at the balance between offline and online time. Technology and social networking should not be a goal itself.

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semaho — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:17:50 -0000

hi all, any chance of getting an invitation?

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KT — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:31:57 -0000

I watched the google demo months ago. If you compare wave to a social networking tool, then you are doing it grave injustice, because it simply does not work, for the exact reasons you listed. Google says that it's an improvement over email. What they should have said is it's an improvement over BUSINESS email. (ahem, MS outlook/sharepoint, and whatever Lotus Notes offers.) My take is what Wave does is basically combine GMail and Google Docs into one tool.

The fact that you have a limited amount of time for juggling multiple projects/tasks will be the thing that blocks out the noise from your inbox, and the fact that you keep your to do list prioritized will be the key to filtering out additional noise.

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Daniel J. Pritchett — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:16:39 -0000

That's a shame given that it's not finished and not launched. Oh well, it took people a while to get Twitter - hopefully folks will come around to Wave too.

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partywedo — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:14:56 -0000

What makes me nervous is that everyone will see what a lousy speller that I am in real time.
It will be embarrassing to have others watching as I type and then go back to fix my errors displayed by the many red underlined words!

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Wayne — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:10:12 -0000

Consensus on twitter is that googlewave is a failure.

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disqusbeta — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:55:22 -0000

let's be fair to it and give it some time, i think wave developers hastened the things, i see it as a great collaboration tool however, the companies like wordpress with it's workforce spread across globe can really use it instead of IRC, chat clients

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Chieze Okoye — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:04:57 -0000

So, the problem with Wave is that it's so open-ended that anyone can see it literally as anything they want to see it as, hence some people seeing it as a Friendfeed/IM/Twitter client that supercharges the process past human comprehensibility and so it's bad. I on the other hand have a ton of event and project planning email threads that I get on both personally and professionally where the core idea gets lost 10 emails back (buried in the previous messages area of the Gmail conversation) or we send different doc revisions back and forth or whatever and to me, Wave is a godsend. I think that Wave makes this process ridiculously simple now, well past email's (or even Gmail+GDoc's) capabilities -- even with its current numerous shortcomings and rough edges.

So I don't know, I just think of it like this: Do you (general purpose 'you' not necessarily you, Louis) participate in every conversation around you? No? Exercise the same behavior with waves and you'll be fine.

That said, Google needs to really get the focus on the things that Wave does really well (which they've been trying to since inception). Otherwise, (in the case of Scoble's overview, for instance) it will get hijacked by reviewers shoehorning it into a usage where it's not as strong and declaring it a failure or some such.

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dml138 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:05:55 -0000

Word. I signed up the same day, no invite yet. Guess it isn't gonna happen.