I co-host and produce an online show and I use Wave to co-ordinate all aspects of the show – its cut down on Email use dramatically, replaced GoogleDocs and just overall increased productivity.

The caveat of course is that i use Wave mainly with only a couple of other people – we’re having constant conversations on it – if you have an Account and no one else you know does, (and you have nothing to work on together with the people who do have an account), then there’s no real point to it so far.

What a great tool!

We have some really grand discussions going in higher education as a collaborative tool in which to share class projects across institutions. On these public waves there are anywhere from a dozen to 450 people from different colleges and universities.

I created a wave outside of wave – a Web page that embeds a Wave page. That’s very cool… soon we all will be sharing our waves with others through the Web – talk about a global discussion! We will be able to update as a group authenticated through Wave and have it instantly appear in the Web.

The bots are useful… there is a notify bot if you really only look at Wave right now every now and then. That will email you. But, of course, the day is coming when email and wave will be one.

The applications in higher education are enormous.

-ray schroeder university of illinois at springfield

We have a small workgroup that started using it about two months ago. Like the mobile phone or email, I’m wondering how we managed all these projects before Wave.

Our work group is about 6 people and we’ve been using wave as a productivity / note-taking tool, rather than a communication tool as some have tried.

Frankly, as a communications tool, Wave, in its current state, is worthless. As a productivity tool in a dispersed/remote user environment, Wave is golden.

Lots of bugs yet to be ironed… and I can’t wait for integration (docs, spreadsheets, voice, gmail) – but I think there is a lot of potential here.

Does anyone know if all the users have to be google account users? It’d be interesting if Mom on AOL and brother on Yahoo and you on Google mail could all collaborate using it w/o forcing Mother and Brother to have to adopt gmail accounts. This is likely counter to what Google hopes to do.

I wish all you bloggers would stop telling the public how useless it is and how doomed the future of it is. Your spoiling the excitement.

After receiving my invite a few days ago – I didn’t get any invites myself. So I find myself waving with about 2 or 3 people and it’s not really useful, yet.