20 Google Wave Invites
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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.
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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
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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? -
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...
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Hehe... My GF could never get around wave I believe. She hardly uses Gmail and GTalk at all.
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I'll try to get on and add myself. I don't recall my adress off the top of my head....
Chris
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@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?
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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
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@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...
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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...) -
Found this good little guide for wave: http://completewaveguide.com/ seems fairly comprehensive
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Thanks, Jakob
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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!
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2 invitations for you. PM me
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I don't like to bump threads but i read this article....
So for those interested i've got 20 invites to share so PM if you want one or two or three...
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Does anyone actually use Google Wave?
Have 25 more invites, if anyone is interested; so about 30 total.
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Last time I checked I had about 15+
I know Plot Paris started a public SCF wave but all is quiet these days. What about your Wave Jim?
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I check wave about once a month.
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I rarely if ever log into it.
But in the developers wave server, they just introduced a bot-addons area where you can find bots and stuff. So that mgiht start making Wave more interesting if it becomes easier to locate useful bots and addons. I have not looked into it yet though,
Chris
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I've got a little widget in my windows toolbar that notifies me once I've got a new wave. its faster than e-mail, quite convenient.
I chat with my girlfriend quite regularly on wave. its pretty cool, because she can just write me a wave during the day. when I come home, I reply to it - and if she happens to be online, it turns into an instant messaging conversation...of course the true potential becomes obvious, once you use it with several people at a time. then its better than mailing, because everyone can contribute to the same document. and it is superior to chatting (e.g. Skype) because you can have one main document with all the gathered information and countless sub-conversations where you discuss the different points..
of course it needs some getting used to, to find your way through several parallel conversations.
but I think the technology is highly promising.
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