[LRUG] Googley Wavey Invitey

[Jocke Selin]

I think Muz has got most of it, but to me, Wave's best feature is the ability to let a document transform into what it wants to me.

For example, you could schedule a meeting in Wave, then use the same wave to make notes during the meeting - several ones can make notes - once the meeting is over, the notes can be arranged, maybe to headers and partial paragraphs. Then these paragraphs can be edited to longer sections finally transforming the wave into what we traditionally see as a Word document. Could be whitepaper, plan of some sort, memo, etc, etc.

All in the same wave.

Just my £0.02. :)

/JS


On 26 Nov 2009, at 10:50, Murray Steele wrote:

> 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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