20 Google Wave Invites

remus

from my experience so far, its sort of like email/im/google docs all mashed together with the ability to add maps, weather info and lots more (if you can write a plugin for it or find someone who already has.)

Hard to say exactly how you'll benefit from using it, as it depends a lot on how you try and use it. It seems like one of those 'the more you put in the more you get out' things.

boofredlay

Thanks.

plot-paris

I don't know if there is a whole world of SCF waves running out there already. but Craig and I just started a new one to meet some fellow SCF members... its a public wave with the title SCF - a first gathering

Gaieus

I still don't know what this wave is for...
There is already an SCF gathering there - I just don't know how to add/invite people.

plot-paris

oh, inviting people should be easy. just drag and drop their contact to the top of the wave.

and to your question what wave is for? well, it is an attempt to iron out the flaws of 40 year old email...
for example if you are in an email dialog with me. I answer you by pressing reply. that copies your mail into a new file and I add my text above. when you answer to this message, you'll copy your old email plus my reply to a new file and add your comments. now if that goes on for a while we have a big pile of dead copies of the same text. and we haven't even started thinking about the mess if its more than two people involved (almost impossible to handle with ordinary mail at present)...

Wave on the other hand is a hosted conversation. so if you answer a note of someone else, you add to that onine-document. that has the advantage of preventing unnecessary copies of the same text and also you have the benefit of everything being in real-time. you don't have to wait minutes for an answer to be delivered... ist there within a heart beat...

of course there are many more benefits that I am happy to discuss, once I am not at work (and supposed to be busy modelling )

Gaieus

Well, we've been able to do this via chat and such until now, right?
OK, this is "rich chat" with embedded other documents or even videos but what else?

plot-paris

I think most importantly it is an open protocol to build the base of future communication.

one important feature is for example, that conversations don't have to be linear. we see that on this forum quite often, that some people are discussing slightly off topic things, due to the technology of the forum embedded in the linear flow of the thread.
with wave however this off topic conversation could simply build another branch in the conversation, leaving the main topic undisturbed. it could be discussed in that off topic branch until it just ends or it becomes such an interesting topic of its own, that a new wave is dedicated to it (with a link to this new wave at the end of the side conversation).

I know, that needs some getting used to and it only works as long as people really stick to certain rules. but even in a simple chat situation with my girlfriend it proved quite useful already...

Gaieus

Hehe... My GF could never get around wave I believe. She hardly uses Gmail and GTalk at all.

Chris Fullmer

I'll try to get on and add myself. I don't recall my adress off the top of my head....

Chris

d12dozr

@plot-paris said:

I don't know if there is a whole world of SCF waves running out there already. but Craig and I just started a new one to meet some fellow SCF members... its a public wave with the title SCF - a first gathering

How would I go about finding this wave and following/contributing to it?

plot-paris

you would have to search for it. and thankfully Google Wave provides us with mighty search tools.

first, we know, that its a public wave. therefore we should type into the search field:

with:public

we also know, that SCF occurs in the title. therefore we also type

title:SCF

into the search field. then we hit the search button. and theoretically you should find the wave.

(sorry for lecturing like that. I am just so delighted by these search options )

Gaieus

@plot-paris said:

...first, we know, that its a public wave. therefore we should type into the search field:

with:public

we also know, that SCF occurs in the title. therefore we also type

title:SCF...

That was easy - bruhahaaa...

plot-paris

yeah, its really cool. now I could go to Google Wave and look for any waves with

with:Csaba AND bruhahaaa

and then I could see, how many times you burst out laughing...
(to be precise, I would have to enter your full wave adress, not only your name...)

remus

Found this good little guide for wave: http://completewaveguide.com/ seems fairly comprehensive

d12dozr

Thanks, Jakob

plot-paris

you are welcome, Marcus. oh, and if you read the document Remus suggested, you will find many more useful search commands...

by the way, Remus: when I read the guide and they mentioned that the name was inspired by the Firefly series, I was sold. after that I am absolutely convinced that Wave is the future!
(and who knows, maybe that will trigger the production of a second firefly season...)