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Lars: Remove Participant Feature due “Within a Month”

We have begun test­ing remove par­tic­i­pant inter­nally and hope­fully it will hit exter­nally within a month

Lars Ras­mussen, one of the lead Wave developers.

In a Wave enti­tled “Google Wave User Black List”, Lars piped up to offer advice on the best way to avoid and take action against known trolls and abusers and offered the above tit­bit about the immi­nent release of the abil­ity to remove par­tic­i­pants from Wave.

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Posted 2010-02-13 by Joshua

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Expectations

Set suit­able expec­ta­tions. Despite the months of buzz, and blo­gos­phere– and Twitterverse-wide clam­or­ing for Google Wave invites, the prod­uct is still in pre­view and has some rough edges. There­fore, it does all par­ties good to be real­is­tic, even if every­body is psy­ched to be the first kid on their block to use it on a live project.

6 Tips For Using Google Wave On Your First Project.

This is the first of six excel­lent things to keep in mind when using Wave for the first time, let alone on a project. Wave is full of poten­tial, but peo­ple seem to for­get it’s still just get­ting off the ground.

I love that peo­ple are using it for projects already.

Posted 2009-11-10 by Joshua

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A Wave Extension Market Place?

…devel­op­ers have asked us a lot for a mar­ket place where we’ll help them sell their exten­sions to our users includ­ing a rev­enue share so we’ll also make some money from it.

I’ll be very sur­prised if we don’t go down that route.”

Google Wave to have appli­ca­tion store | News | TechRadar UK

This will be a very impor­tant devel­op­ment in the suc­cess of Wave. The iPhone has grown enor­mously by mak­ing high qual­ity apps sim­ple to pay for and receive. The key dif­fer­ence for Wave will be that the pro­to­col is open for any­one to extend, and the main client (the Google Wave inter­face) is web based.

I pre­dict this will mean a lot more exten­sions will be made open source or free. Of course it’s highly depen­dent on the qual­ity and user expe­ri­ence of the store. If a devel­oper can make an exten­sion open source, but still make it avail­able in the same mar­ket­place many will choose to do so.

Keep in mind too, that over time other clients will emerge that will access the Wave pro­to­col, and it will be inter­est­ing to see if the mar­ket­place will extend to such clients.

Posted 2009-10-27 by Joshua

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3 Things you should know about Wave

I use portable Fire­fox for brows­ing at work with a mod­i­fied user-agent (pre­tend­ing it’s Inter­net Explorer, of course!) and Google Wave keeps alert­ing me the browser is not sup­ported. To bypass this annoy­ing check, go directly to https://wave.google.com/wave/?nouacheck. Of course, some browsers just can’t han­dle the storm: in my expe­ri­ence so far, Opera 10 fails to load Wave every time with a nasty error.

Fors: Short­cuts and searches in Google Wave.

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Posted 2009-10-23 by Joshua

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The problems Wave solves

I believe that peo­ple who don’t see what Google Wave is for are sim­ply look­ing at it from the wrong angle. Wave is not a social tool. It’s not Twit­ter, it’s not GTalk, it’s not Face­book. It was never designed to appeal to the crowds of geeks who are cur­rently try­ing it out. Wave is built for the cor­po­rate envi­ron­ment. It’s a tool for get­ting work done. And as far as those go, it’s an excel­lent tool, even at this very early stage.

danieltenner.com — What prob­lems does Google Wave solve?

Posted 2009-10-15 by Joshua

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Wave and Real Time Collaboration

This in no way rep­re­sents a new social net­work­ing tool, and I think using it as such would be rather cum­ber­some. The beauty of it is, the user can con­trol the expe­ri­ence and dic­tate its purpose.

Google Wave Is The Future of Real Time Collaboration

Posted 2009-10-08 by Joshua

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The Freedom Problem

All of this freedom—being able to add to, edit, or delete any­one else’s blip in any wave—doesn’t just lead to acci­den­tal destruc­tion but con­cerns about peo­ple “putting words into their mouths”, and raises a num­ber of trust issues for many.

Early thoughts on Google Wave

I’m cer­tain that this will not be as big an issue in later iter­a­tions of Wave, and there are already some safe­guards in place. Nev­er­the­less, it is a real issue to watch as Wave matures.

Posted 2009-10-08 by Joshua

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What You’re Missing About Google Wave

What is amaz­ing is that Google has devel­oped a real-time com­mu­ni­ca­tion frame­work that can work in a fed­er­ated envi­ron­ment.
Peo­ple aren’t get­ting it right now because they’re expect­ing the beta to all be about pol­ish­ing the User Expe­ri­ence. But it’s not about pol­ish­ing: it’s about defining.

Macro Linz » The Point You’re Miss­ing About Google Wave

Posted 2009-10-03 by Joshua

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Some Downsides to Wave

Email chains—the clos­est thing to waves at this point—are all fun and games until some­one CC’s the wrong per­son, like a par­ent, rel­a­tive, boss or overly-sensitive co-worker.

Five Rea­sons to Be Ter­ri­fied of Google Wave

A refresh­ing look at some of the down­sides of waves as a new com­mu­ni­ca­tion medium.

Posted 2009-06-19 by Joshua

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The Re-Invention of Email

Can a small startup — made up the two co-founders and one employee work­ing in a stu­dio apart­ment in Sil­i­con Val­ley — go head-to-head with a pow­er­house like Google on some­thing as rev­o­lu­tion­ary as the re-invention of e-mail?

Can a startup chal­lenge Google on the re-invention of e-mail?

Are tools like CC Betty approach­ing the re-invention of email in a more prac­ti­cal way?

Posted 2009-06-19 by Joshua