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Google Wave Gets Email Notifications

In Post on 2010-03-05 by Joshua Tagged: , , , ,

One of the prob­lems with Google Wave for the non-geek crowd has been how you know you have a new wave?

For ded­i­cated geeks, there are browser exten­sions, OS spe­cific soft­ware, iPhone Push noti­fi­ca­tions, and more.

But most of these don’t fig­ure in the non-geek arse­nal for man­ag­ing the wash of infor­ma­tion from the inter­net. And for reg­u­lar folk con­vinc­ing them to use Wave with­out these sorts of noti­fi­ca­tions will be hard sim­ply because they don’t want to bother check­ing for new waves as well as new emails.

Con­vinc­ing them may have just got­ten eas­ier how­ever with the release of inte­grated email noti­fi­ca­tions for your Wave inbox. In a post on the offi­cial Google Wave Blog, Ged Ellis explains how to turn on email noti­fi­ca­tions for new waves. Using the drop down list next to the inbox link (it’s hid­den until you hover over it) you can choose an email address to have noti­fi­ca­tions sent to. The tool even picked my Google Apps email even though it’s not my offi­cial Wave address because I’ve set it as pri­mary in my Google profile.

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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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Google Wave and University

In Post on 2009-12-06 by Elle Tagged: , ,

Café Area Saltire Centre Glasgow Caledonian University

While attempt­ing to com­plete my first group assign­ment as an exter­nal stu­dent at Uni­ver­sity, I realised how much harder it was than while I was an inter­nal stu­dent.  If you’re an inter­nal stu­dent you see each other at least once a week,  mak­ing it hard to ignore the fact you have an upcom­ing assign­ment. Also you actu­ally get to meet and talk with peo­ple and elect  to be in their group (if the group selec­tion process is left to the stu­dents). Being exter­nal, I had to post a ran­dom post on the dis­cus­sion board and hope I was choos­ing the right peo­ple. And then hope they didn’t ignore my emails or wait a month or so to reply.

Google Wave would have been one of the best tools for this group assign­ment. Email meant a group of four peo­ple were all indi­vid­u­ally email­ing each other and also at times email­ing all four of the group. I ended up with snap­shots of what was hap­pen­ing, who was hav­ing what role, and what the plan was. With Google Wave, all the com­mu­ni­ca­tion would have been in one Wave, or even mul­ti­ple, but it would have been avail­able for the group to read and to add and edit. The plan of the assign­ment, of who was writ­ing what, and how we were writ­ing it could have been kept at the top of the wave, and edited as needed. The parts assigned to indi­vid­u­als could have been put in the wave and the group could know exactly where the assign­ment was up to, and edit other’s parts as we went.

The two main fea­tures of Google Wave which would have pos­i­tive affects on a uni­ver­sity group assign­ment, would have been the real time edit­ing and the abil­ity to high­light. Real time made it more like con­ver­sa­tion, with­out hav­ing to wait for emails to be sent, or hav­ing to work out who could pos­si­ble meet in the City to catch up. High­light­ing would allow those edits to be promi­nent or for indi­vid­u­als to rein­force any point they needed to make.

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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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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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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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Wave is Game Changing

In Link on 2009-06-19 by Joshua Tagged: , ,

A quick overview of the most mind-blowing fea­tures of Google Wave.

The Top 6 Game-Changing Fea­tures of Google Wave [Mashable]

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Music Marketing

In Link on 2009-06-19 by Joshua Tagged: , ,

A per­spec­tive on the poten­tial impact on the artist/fan rela­tion­ship by Google Wave.

hype­bot: Google Wave: What Is It And What Will It Mean To Music Marketing?

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The Impact of Wave on Open Source

If I sound excited, it’s because I am. Google wave has poten­tial to move way beyond yet another buzz-word for the “new-media crowd”. It has the chance to grow some real horns and make a big improve­ment in the way we develop free software.

Will Google Wave rev­o­lu­tionise free soft­ware collaboration?

Free Soft­ware Magazine’s Ryan Cartwright on the poten­tial of Waves for Open Source soft­ware development.

Posted 2009-06-17 by Joshua