The Trouble with Google Wave

I still have no clue how to use Google Wave. Not that I’m stupid, I’m just not motivated to invest the tremendous effort needed to learn the new interface–especially when not all of my friends have invites yet.

Still, it helps to see a real-world use of Google Wave–at a conference no less. Instead of using Twitter–and hashtags–attendees at the recent Ecomm conference were given Google Wave accounts. The resulting collaboration gives me a better feel for at least one practical use of the new service.

Take a look:

Of course, I see one immediate problem. Where’s the opinion? What I love about conference Tweets–and blog posts–is reading the opinion that’s thrown in with the coverage. The above Google Wave example seems just a little too sterile for my liking.

Anyhow, I’d better get on the Google Wave soon because, apparently, Google has aspirations of taking the Google Wave "look and feel" and making it uniform across all of its apps.

Comments

[Linda Nelson:]

I love the concept of the wave and because I'm involved in a highly collaborative business that reaches around the globe, it just makes sense to be able to have many different people online together working through concepts and projects with the ability to edit, watch videos, share photos, etc., all at the same time. I have my account and am waiting to get more invites, so I can get everyone I work with up and running. Right now I'm in post production on our newest film, DELIVERED. Our graphic artist lives in The Netherlands. How cool to be able to work together at the same time with visuals. It's like having a giant interactive white board that everyone can write on and look at, at the same time. I think it's as revolutionary as the fax machine was in its day.

Nov 10 03:26 PM