Google Wave is taking me over :D

XionTawa

XionTawa

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Okay, at first when I got an invite to Wave a long while ago, I thought it was really nice, better than email at least...however, due to the lack of extensions or other options really made me just go "meh"... However, now that it is released to everyone it has gotten a LOT better, 100s of extensions and gadgets...it performs way better with a lot more options... If everyone used it, it could have the potential to take over forums, email, IM, and just about every way you communicate and discuss on the internet via text, images, and video...

Not using Wave yet? Check it out...

New to Wave? Good 5 minute video showing the good tips and tricks...

Add me to your Wave contacts: xiontawa AT googlewave DOT com (yes it is in the form of an email address so put it back together)...
 
Lloren said:
Google Wave is cool, but what? It's lack of people makes it less appealing.

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To be fair, that comic's likely out of date. Replace the stick figures asking for invites with stick figures already overwhelmed with social networking options and tack on a hearty "Meh" speech bubble and that comic would be current.

I'm sure Google Wave is a great service, but I spend enough time keeping up with e-mail, instant messages, forum private messages, Steam messages, IRC chat rooms, TeamSpeak, Ventrilo, Twitter, Facebook--you get the point.
 
I'm not on there constantly, but I like Wave a lot. This is so much better than any of the other online forms of communication I have tried so far. The organization it brings to a conversation is amazing. There are many of us at my work place that are fed up with confusing email chains that diverge to different recipients and people end up missing out on parts that are important... we would love to implement some corporate version of Wave.
 
DannyMeister said:
I'm not on there constantly, but I like Wave a lot. This is so much better than any of the other online forms of communication I have tried so far. The organization it brings to a conversation is amazing. There are many of us at my work place that are fed up with confusing email chains that diverge to different recipients and people end up missing out on parts that are important... we would love to implement some corporate version of Wave.
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Many companies already use Wave, as well as profession extensions that work well for businesses and other professional areas... Even the military (in some situations and areas) use Wave... :)
 
We have it here at work and nobody uses it. Maybe we are doing it wrong. Go figure.
 
Lloren said:
We have it here at work and nobody uses it. Maybe we are doing it wrong. Go figure.
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XD ...maybe...and maybe not... If you don't have a lot of people all working on the same thing, then I could see why you wouldn't have much use for it...but for collaboration, it is the best... Also...some people don't look into the extensions, which make for some very useful gadgets...
 
I'm still confused as to what Wave is...

But I'm more likely to use any of Google's cool stuff on my phone, so they should get on the ball and put something on the Market. All the 3rd party stuff is garbage
 
Lloren said:
Not enough user adoption.
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Not sure if this is true...Google dropped Pages (which was a lot different than sites, and much better than sites was) and Pages has millions of active users... And they said we could just move to sites, but sites still doesn't offer us all that pages did...
 
i think this is so silly. i use it for tons of church and website collaboration and its gonna be tuff moving all of that to a different system even if something like that existed.
 
Agreed...currently in the process of exporting to Google Docs...and possibly looking at going over to Zoho...
 
XionTawa said:
I can't believe the news today...I can't close my eyes and make it go way... :'(
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Words fail to express my love and appreciation for you right now. lol

I never gave Wave a shot, but it ultimately didn't look like something useful to me. In a work environment, it'd be excellent. But for more social functions, I wasn't really feelin' it. And there's the fact that I have to run a billion clients to keep on various services as it is. Got my IRC, my IM, my Twitter, somethetimes TeamSpeak, etc. What'd be really awesome in my eyes is if Google created a multi-service IM client... especially if it has IRC functionality into it. One log-in for all my services? Hugely useful.

Sure, it'd just make Google one step closer to taking over the world, but at least that'd be useful to me. lol

Side note: +1 to Pages > Sites.
 
Kendrik said:
And there's the fact that I have to run a billion clients to keep on various services as it is. Got my IRC, my IM, my Twitter, somethetimes TeamSpeak, etc. What'd be really awesome in my eyes is if Google created a multi-service IM client... especially if it has IRC functionality into it. One log-in for all my services? Hugely useful.
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Minus the TeamSpeak functionality and the single log-in, you might be wanting to try Trillian. Or Pidgin. Or Digs--wait, did they ever remove all the crapware from Digsby?
 
Tek7 said:
Minus the TeamSpeak functionality and the single log-in, you might be wanting to try Trillian. Or Pidgin. Or Digs--wait, did they ever remove all the crapware from Digsby?
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I'm running Mac OS X (10.4). I run an app called Adium that handles most services. Once I'm back on Windows, I'll be runnin' Trillian (I ran it half a decade ago or whatever when I was consistently on Windows). Thanks for the heads up, though.
 
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