[LRUG] Googley Wavey Invitey

[Murray Steele]

So, despite looking like a chat app, it's not particularly useful as a
replacement for IM / IRC / Campfire / <your preferrred chat thingy> as
the UI isn't optimised for that (and live one-char at a time typing is
*weird*).  However, it is really useful if you do want to collaborate
with people on writing something.

A good tip might be to search for a public wave and watch the playback
to see how it is built up, that'll give you an idea of what it's
useful for and the sorts of workflows that might come out of it.  Just
search for something non-trivial like an FAQ rather than "Wave if you
like sandwiches".

I can't compare it to basecamp as I've never used that, but the
easiest comparison (for me) would be to something like Google Docs
(writely) or etherpad and I think it is much better than those as it's
more structured than just a chat box next to a word doc.

2009/11/26 Mr Jaba <the.jaba at gmail.com>:
> Can't actually see the point behind it at the moment. It's like IRC but very
> very slow.
>
> 2009/11/26 Taryn East <teast at globalpersonals.co.uk>
>>
>> OOC  anybody using Wave have opinions on how good/bad it is compared to
>> other collaboration tools (eg basecamp)?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Taryn
>>
>> 2009/11/26 Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have 11 google wave invites and I don't have any actual friends to
>>> pass them onto.  If anyone here isn't already waved up the wazoo and
>>> want's to owe me a favour forever, reply to me directly (off-list) and
>>> I'll spend one of my precious wave-tokens on inviting you.
>>>
>>> Muz
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