Comments on: Google Wave: What's It For?

By: Pamela Fox

Pamela Fox — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:04:50 +0000

You might try out the Ferry extension - it exports waves to Google Docs, and then you can print from there. You can find it in the extensions gallery.

By: Pamela Fox

Pamela Fox — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:03:22 +0000

There are definitely students using it for projects - I just met some today doing just that (a research paper), and they added me to their project waves so I can see. They've got a wave for listing references, a wave with many attachments of research papers, 2 waves with drafts of their study and results, and a wave with meeting notes. Really shows off the flexibility of waves.

(Oh, and yes, full disclosure: I work on Google Wave, helping developers make extensions.).

By: What’s Google Wave For? New Templates Provide Some Hints

What’s Google Wave For? New Templates Provide Some Hints — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:01:04 +0000

[...] truly) were left scratching their heads, wondering how they could actually use it. Will provided some possible uses for Wave back in January, but a new addition to the tool — a set of templates that provide starting [...]

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:03:54 +0000

Compilation of materials(Video,articles,news and etc) about Google Wave. It can be found at http://www.tinkrbox.com/tb/box.jsp?b=EGO3woGaIA6Y

By: Webappuniverse Staff

Webappuniverse Staff — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:17:05 +0000

You can get Google Wave headlines right on your iPhone at http://googlewave.webappuniverse.com. Updated every hour and 100% free!

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:41:23 +0000

One drawback that I haven’t overcome is that I can’t print out of Wave once the collaboration on a work product is done. Any ideas?

By: Eric J. Gruber

Eric J. Gruber — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:33:04 +0000

If Google had a way to notify someone, like how I’d expect ping to work, then it would help a lot.

It’s hard to get away from e-mail completely, though.

By: Will Kelly

Will Kelly — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:05:55 +0000

Ralph–

You bring up an interesting point about the potential for Google Wave as a collaboration tool for student projects. I wonder if there are any students out there using it for group projects?

By: Will Kelly

Will Kelly — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:34 +0000

Eric– Thanks for your comment. While we did like how Google Wave got away from depending on email we did find ourselves resorting to email in some circumstances.

By: Ralph Leon

Ralph Leon — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:37:21 +0000

Though I haven’t used Wave I have thought about it, especially during projects. It might not be perfect yet but I see this as being the next best real time tool in collaborating projects. Not just for businesses, but also for college. In a majority of classes students are faced with group projects that are overly time consuming. Instead of students having to meet constantly with their groups I can really see them benefiting from what Google Wave has to offer.

By: Eric J. Gruber

Eric J. Gruber — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:52:29 +0000

I’m working with two others on a web project and 98% of the communication for it has been through Wave.

It’s so nice to have a collaboration tool that eliminates the wastefulness of e-mail. We store Photoshop files, screen shots, Word docs and hash out ideas without having to clean up replies and forwards.

It doesn’t eliminate the need for e-mail totally, but it’s a great tool for collaboration. I look forward to seeing what comes of it with future improvements.