Adelene Dawner and some of my other friends use Google Wave too, but mostly to read stuff I wrote, and to comment on it, or chat live about it.
Oh, and another friend, MetaFire Horsley, aka MetaHorse, uses Google Wave to write some awesome sci-fi stories, and get live feedback on them. And that’s working pretty good.
I might as well ask: does anyone else here use Google Wave? Or does anyone here have a Wave account that they’re not using because they don’t know anyone else who uses Wave?
I’ve read a few attempted descriptions of what Google Wave is and have not really been able to make sense of it or understand how it might be useful to me. Several of these descriptions have admitted to difficulty expressing either its function or purpose clearly as well. I haven’t been motivated to try to understand it further because I’m not aware of any problem I have which it appears to be a solution to.
The main useful feature of Wave is the realtime collaborative editing, and the ability to be instantly alerted to any update to any wave you’re monitoring. There’s more, but there’s probably not much point for me to list all of the other features here. And I’m reluctant to try to convince other people to join, because it can be extremely addictive, and it’s still kinda annoyingly glitchy, and is still missing some important features.
If you’re not the sort of person who tries new things just for the sake of trying them, or if you didn’t get immediately excited about Wave when you first heard about it, or you don’t think you have any use for realtime collaborative editing, then you’re probably better off waiting until someone you know is using Wave for something specific that you want to join in on.
and yes, it can be used as a persistent, HTML form of IRC, where you can leave or resume a conversation at any time, or return to an old branch of the conversation and visually branch it off, or even have multiple branches running simultaneously, in separate parts of the wave, rather than the different threads constantly overlapping, which always ends up happening in IRC.
I think you are the first person I know of, who actively uses Google Wave.
Adelene Dawner and some of my other friends use Google Wave too, but mostly to read stuff I wrote, and to comment on it, or chat live about it.
Oh, and another friend, MetaFire Horsley, aka MetaHorse, uses Google Wave to write some awesome sci-fi stories, and get live feedback on them. And that’s working pretty good.
I might as well ask: does anyone else here use Google Wave? Or does anyone here have a Wave account that they’re not using because they don’t know anyone else who uses Wave?
oh, and here’s some more information about what I’m using Wave for.
I’ve read a few attempted descriptions of what Google Wave is and have not really been able to make sense of it or understand how it might be useful to me. Several of these descriptions have admitted to difficulty expressing either its function or purpose clearly as well. I haven’t been motivated to try to understand it further because I’m not aware of any problem I have which it appears to be a solution to.
The main useful feature of Wave is the realtime collaborative editing, and the ability to be instantly alerted to any update to any wave you’re monitoring. There’s more, but there’s probably not much point for me to list all of the other features here. And I’m reluctant to try to convince other people to join, because it can be extremely addictive, and it’s still kinda annoyingly glitchy, and is still missing some important features.
If you’re not the sort of person who tries new things just for the sake of trying them, or if you didn’t get immediately excited about Wave when you first heard about it, or you don’t think you have any use for realtime collaborative editing, then you’re probably better off waiting until someone you know is using Wave for something specific that you want to join in on.
and yes, it can be used as a persistent, HTML form of IRC, where you can leave or resume a conversation at any time, or return to an old branch of the conversation and visually branch it off, or even have multiple branches running simultaneously, in separate parts of the wave, rather than the different threads constantly overlapping, which always ends up happening in IRC.
As far as I can tell, it’s a HTML form of IRC, but persistent.