Posts Tagged ‘use case’

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Read a Wave in a Fast, Simple Interface

In Post on 2010-01-31 by Joshua Tagged: , , , , , ,

Want to share a pub­lic wave with some­one who hasn’t jumped on the Wave band­wagon? Need to pub­lish a Wave in a way that keeps it safe from edi­tors and wanna-be trolls? How ’bout this Wave Reader that takes a wave and dis­plays it as a web page with­out the reader need­ing an account.

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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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Wave To Posterous

In Link on 2009-11-10 by Joshua Tagged: , ,

Google fan Lookon has cre­ated a Bot to post to his Pos­ter­ous blog, and writ­ten detailed instruc­tions on how to do it.

It’s straight for­ward enough, add the bot and log in to the form it gives you. The next time you add the bot to a wave, the first wavelet gets posted at Pos­ter­ous and it returns the URL for you to check.

Pos­ter­ous seems to have the most diverse post­ing options of any blog­ging soft­ware avail­able, and the addi­tion of post­ing from waves puts it again at the forefront.

Now the bot needs to mon­i­tor com­ments and return them to the orig­i­nal wave for even tighter integration.

How to write a blog using Google Wave Robot for Pos­ter­ous [West­ern Bridge over Google Wave]

(via Ker­rie Anne’s Fridge Mag­nets)

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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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Find Local Waves

In Post on 2009-11-10 by Joshua Tagged: , , ,

By now if you’ve been using Wave long enough you should know that a search for [with:public] gets you a big long fast updat­ing list of all the Waves that peo­ple have shared with the world. If you’ve been read­ing the Com­plete Guide to Google Wave you might know to nar­row down the search with tags and terms too.

But were you aware that Local Waves have popped up every­where as well, and you can find users near you just by plug­ging your city/suburb into the search (with the pub­lic wave search) eg. [with:public city name]. If you can’t imme­di­ately find a Wave for your loca­tion, you can start one! Just cre­ate a crafty title, and make the Wave pub­lic. Encour­age peo­ple who join to mark them­selves on a map, and shout out their Twitter/social details for peo­ple to con­nect elsewhere.

Have a tonne of fun, and stay safe!

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When to use Google Wave [Google Wave Help]

Some use cases for Google Wave at the Wave Help page. A quick run down of how you could poten­tially use Wave if you’re stuck for ideas.

Using Google Wave

Tagged: , , on 2009-10-29 by Joshua

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The sub­ject mat­ter might be dry, but this 7 minute video demon­strates the col­lab­o­ra­tive power of Wave when devel­op­ers cre­ate use­ful tools for it. Note the real-time updates through­out the entire process, includ­ing the cre­ation of the model.

PS. Google Wave Blog­ger calls Grav­ity “The Best Busi­ness Exam­ple of Google Wave, Period!

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Collaboration via Google Wave

Tagged: on 2009-10-16 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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14 Use cases for Wave

In Link on 2009-10-15 by Joshua Tagged: ,

Gina Tra­pani (who is fast becom­ing one of the fore­most experts on Wave) has col­lated 14 use cases for Wave that were put for­ward by Life­hacker read­ers. Top of the list? Education!

Google Wave’s Best Use Cases [Lifehacker]

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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