Google Wave

http://wave.google.com/

Well then.

someone remind me why I would ever want to do that

Because you must be connected to everything ever at once or else.

It will revolutionize the way we do something or something else.

it's just a fancy interface for threaded message boards??

Some hoohah:

Among other things, Google is counting on outsiders to figure out how to weave Wave into the popular Internet communications service Twitter, social networks like Facebook and existing Web-based e-mail services, said Lars Rasmussen, a Google engineering manager.

Rasmussen and his brother, Jens, helped build Google's online mapping service, which sprouted a variety of unforeseen uses after its 2005 debut because of the ingenuity of external programmers.

Having learned their lesson from the mapping experience, the Rasmussens wanted to give developers ample time to tinker with their newest creation before unleashing it on the rest of the world.

The Rasmussens broke away from Google's mapping service in 2006 to concentrate on building a service that would enable e-mail and instant messaging to embrace the Web's increasingly social nature. They contend e-mail hasn't changed that much since its invention during the 1960s.

"We started out by saying to ourselves, 'What might e-mail look like if it had been invented today?"' said Lars Rasmussen, who worked on Wave in Australia with his brother and just three other Google employees.

http://www.thewave.tk/

I hope it will have quizzes, preferably lots of them, because they improve my communication and collaboration on the web.

also it would be good if my "friends" could read and comment on my spam

plus weird google-y tools---i think they do stuff like this not because they think they are 'cool' and 'trendy' but because they anticipate the user-created data will be trendable in a way that lets them fine tune some search algorithm uniquely suited to 'waves' that they can then license for more serious enterprise applications

xposts

okay I like you all v.v. much but you are not fucking collaborating on my emails

'hey users generate contextual text for links and images around the web in controlled environment so we can study yr behavior and make the googlebot smarter'

they're not your emails, dan, they're collaborative emails made my wave-mates

lol by

so... they are like closed collaborative blogs

someone at google figured out that messageboards generally put out more signal than facebook groups or whatever, and goggleize it. 'what if you could take only the best parts of that thread about gear's couch and turn it into a youtube video to send to yr coworkers?? meme it up!'

what if ilx posts were collaborative

iTunes + 4chan/ilx/whatever = waves

wavvves

actually, it's

iTunes + Chicago thread = waves

like that screenshot there is all "BBQ Sunday" and stuff, so i think they're just targeting ppl that hang out on small-fry, local/regional msg boards AND all the gmail users that just keep a tab open at work and bullshit. like, why not do it on this super msg-board that emails and flickrs and isn't called a msg board because that would scare away ppl that don't want to be nerds

Tools called "Searchy" and "Linky" also will allow embedded links and real-time search.
Tools called "Searchy" and "Linky" also will allow embedded links and real-time search.
Tools called "Searchy" and "Linky" also will allow embedded links and real-time search.
Tools called "Searchy" and "Linky" also will allow embedded links and real-time search.
Tools called "Searchy" and "Linky" also will allow embedded links and real-time search.
Tools called "Searchy" and "Linky" also will allow embedded links and real-time search.
Tools called "Searchy" and "Linky" also will allow embedded links and real-time search.
Tools called "Searchy" and "Linky" also will allow embedded links and real-time search.
Tools called "Searchy" and "Linky" also will allow embedded links and real-time search.
Tools called "Searchy" and "Linky" also will allow embedded links and real-time search.
Tools called "Searchy" and "Linky" also will allow embedded links and real-time search.
Tools called "Searchy" and "Linky" also will allow embedded links and real-time search.
Tools called "Searchy" and "Linky" also will allow embedded links and real-time search.
Tools called "Searchy" and "Linky" also will allow embedded links and real-time search.
Tools called "Searchy" and "Linky" also will allow embedded links and real-time search.
Tools called "Searchy" and "Linky" also will allow embedded links and real-time search.
Tools called "Searchy" and "Linky" also will allow embedded links and real-time search.

I have a comment but maybe it is too mean...

http://www.redalkemi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/linky.jpg

ha see, I was so disgusted by the concept of this that I didn't even bother to read for roffles

so we can simultaneously edit other people's soccer player photoshops? this seems really productive to me.

Wait a minute, embedded links??! I have seen the fucking future

Real-time search??????

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/2009/03/23/wired10.jpg

Google Wave can make you more productive even when you're having fun.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Google Wave mod fites could be amusing idea for lolz.

"Google Waves also introduces 'blue writing', in which some text is written in blue, signifying a 'hyperlink'."

actually seems a little like this, with extra social-networking fairy dust -

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

Yeah WTF isnt this just Google Groups? (which is just Usenet anyway)

Well, Google Groups with added "lol I drew a penis on your powerpoint presentation hahahaha" value.

that searchy and linky shit puts me in mind of
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/4949/y31ea68ug4k3.jpg

Actually it made me think of:

http://koti.mbnet.fi/mupelo/springy.gif

^^lol

i think this is going to be awesome

actually i have no idea what this is supposed to be, but i thought i'd balance out against the kneejerk skepticism.

can i use google link on my amazon kindle

i mean google *wave*

ahoy dere

I have to say, if it does end up being kind of like a forum/BB/newsgroup sort of thing but with added web2.0 kind of tech, it could have some interesting potential.

Hmmm... collab porn anyone?

if this is more than 6000x less annoying than letmegooglethatforyou.com then i may investigate, but 6000 is i stress my lower limit

I was looking at the developer stuff, might not be hard to add a "bookmarked ilx thread" component to it.

i think this is going to be awesome

actually i have no idea what this is supposed to be, but i thought i'd balance out against the kneejerk skepticism.

i really do think this is gonna be awesome.

I still want to know what Nicole's mean comment was!

and yeah it is a bit like yahoo pipes or microsoft popfly, but a) already built for you and ii) by a company big and good enough to maybe actually get it right and make it popular - like how ajax only really took off after gmail.

this is gonna be web 4.0, people.

I've got a similarly positive attitude about it. Of course it's just as likely this will become nothing, but it seems like a good way to introduce things like wiki-style editing to email conversations. Sometimes it feels weird that for most of my friends - who have no idea RSS or Google Reader is, don't really read message boards, don't give a damn about Twitter (that includes me) etc. - these clunky old email chains are what they use most of the time, and Gmail conversation threads are the biggest advance there is, in convenience and usability advances. Ledge's comment about Gmail/Ajax otm.

*waves*

trayce at gmail if anyone wants to start some lols (if i remember to look)

Got it. Have one contact. Sending you a wave Trayce.

I dont tihnk it worked! Do people have to be in your mail contacts list or someting?

That helps.

ok, sent you an email to see if that helped...

can someone invite me plz

kinda want to see how this works in an academic environment

not well ime

have no invites tho

we're kinda looking for a one-stop solution for

-file hosting (handouts, lecture vids, etc)
-wiki note coop (already got one that's pretty popular but doesn't get edited enough)
-discussion/forum
-calendar

as it is everything's spread out over several different sites, including two janky education-specific sites (blackboard and moodle). i wanna be able to DL a .zip of ALL our lecture materials from the same place i read the wiki etc

I have invites to give out, where should I send them?

Wave's pretty good for the note coop stuff, and I think it works well as a discussion board (after the obligatory editing each other's posts when you get started). Annoyingly it doesn't have the standard google links along the top for mail/calendar/docs etc.
You can attach files up to 8MB I think, although it's been a bit weird when I've tried to add stuff, you can never tell if it's worked properly or not.
I have invites too if anyone wants, webmail me an email address.

me too - invites at the ready - webmail

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will invite anyone who wants imo

1 updated wave in your inbox

Google Wave RIP

Only use I've seen of Wave in ages: http://smarterware.org/6021/live-from-google-io-waving-wednesdays-keynote

Really a suprising misstep on Google's behalf, this was.

Not really. I's certainly not a cash cow for the company, but it wasn't meant to be. It seems the project was more about developing the tech than doing anything specific with it. So, mission accomplished.

They're Google. They can throw shit at the wall and see what sticks. It's an enviable luxury.

Hell, I'm using their browser right now. The surprising misstep was the way they launched Buzz.

True dat (if you mean the privacy snafu). THo they fucked up on that account AGAIN with the street view wifi "oops we accidentally snagged some of yr open network info, sorry!" thing the other day, yeesh. At least theyre transperant about it all unlike FB.

i've still no idea wtf this even was

I've used it and I haven't a clue!

not rly sure what 'google buzz' is either

Isn't just like facebook status updates but for gmail?

With a couple of bells and whistles, but basically yes.

It's a damn shame that Google lost people's trust over privacy right out of the gate with Buzz, because a lot of Facebook users are looking for somewhere else to go right now, because fuck Zuckerberg with an entire fireplace set, but there's nowhere to go, really.

I love buzz.

Yes. And you prefer American yogurt. I don't trust you, either.

:)

No, TBH, the only time I have interacted with Buzz is to jump through the flaming hoops that were (are?) require to turn the thing off. Every I know who uses it thinks it's the kitten's tits, though.

(That's good.)

(Please read my last post as if I had proofread it myself, k thnx.)

Kenan otm about facebook and buzz.

Am really getting into Wave at work now. Is great for shared budgets and docs etc.

i used wave once to plan a roast beef dinner

Fin.

phew now they have more time to concentrate on google buzz and orkut.

It's a critical time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbEOgfq3CNc

i wish someone had written an article predicting its demise called not waving but drowning

bizarre, only yesterday i randomly started thinking about google wave and where the hell had it gone

Google waves wipes out.

wave

rip

google wave

google stadia

I mean, its legend still lives on in elements of Google Docs or Asana.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6pgxLaDdQw

I think its problem was that it just used the word "wave" way too much.