Comments on: 12 Reasons Why Google Wave will Change the Web

By: Mozilla Raindrop and Google Wave Totally Unrelated | Black Web 2.0

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:00:32 +0000

[...] Things Done, Web 2.0 First, everyone was waiting with baited breath for Google to release Wave. Google Wave was supposed to be the solution for all of our messaging and social media needs. It [...]

By: facebook-25506863

facebook-25506863 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:17:16 +0000

This looks like it can really be the outlook of the future.

By: brucewagner

brucewagner — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:34:06 +0000

Wow. Google Wave is the number 1 trending topic again! For Intelligent discussion about Google Wave check out *http://DiscussWave.com Pls RT

By: deancollins

deancollins — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:27:28 +0000

great writeup – i'm having difficulties trying to find 'new' information for updates at @WaveAppReview

What interest me is how do people monetise 3rd party robots http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/wav...

Really want to understand what billing mechanisms are available to developers for charging for Robots and Front End Clients but also private Wave Servers.

By: Shay Guy

Shay Guy — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:27:00 +0000

It can go back and add words to earlier parts of the sentence, or modify the ones already present.

By: Kittyah

Kittyah — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:47:09 +0000

Rosy confuses me. How exactly can a robot retype what I'm typing in English into, for example, Japanese? Japanese has a vastly different sentence structure, so in essence to translate it in real time would mean it has to type some things before I have.

By: Jaff

Jaff — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:36:32 +0000

Imagine a classroom, and every student adds notes to one Wave. Some in realtime, some would add later at home, but nobody would conflict because you can always see if somebody is currently adding a note. The teacher can view and add to this wave, and correct any mistakes or inaccuracies. Conversations can arise from this and "classroom acquaintances" can become stronger via these communications, which can be added privately at any time.

This is a brilliant way to help ensure that everyone in the classroom is receiving the same education, and this is how useful the concept is to a single room of people. The applications are infinite, the further across the globe you stretch the idea, the more it seems to perfectly fit.

Even language doesn't have to be a barrier any longer, it's almost scary!

By: rpcutts

rpcutts — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:52:51 +0000

I watched the whole video too and I thought it looked like a great platform.

I would love to use the features they showed instead of email but I'm skeptical that it can gain that much traction. I have email back-and-forths every day like I assume many people do. A 'spec' is emailed I reply with questions they reply with answers and questions of their own. It goes on and on for days and it becomes impossible to follow.

The features I saw them demonstrate would be a massive help. The fact it's federated and open gives it a chance of been widely adopted. I pray that one day there will be some big hosted servers at google et al but that you also get an account with your ISP too just like with email now.

I'll be hosting my own wave server as soon as I get the chance. I think it's got fantastic potential.

By: markusrobinson

markusrobinson — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:00:49 +0000

Funny I said the same thing. It just seemed like so much hype, and for what? The technology is not that impressive, but the fact that it's open source, could lead to some great usage.

By: Facebook User

Facebook User — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:35:23 +0000

When I first saw Google Wave I wasn't impressed. It looked like a solution in search of a problem. How many tasks do I have at work where real-time collaboration is key? Instead, I'm trying to learn to get away from email so I can complete actual work.

But now I am excited about Google Wave because I thought of a use case the tool may be perfect for – online learning. Google Wave looks like it could be the backbone for the online classroom of the future.