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I’m looking forward to trying out Google Wave. Video is over an hour long but really gets you thinking about how much room for improvement there is when it comes to online communication.

This could potentially change the way we use support forums, email, chat and so much more.

Looks like invites will take several hours/days to be sent out. Can’t wait to check it out.

I’m looking forward to this as well. We’re a small team currently using Basecamp for project management, but I can see something like Wave maybe replacing that.

- bjorn

I’d like to give it a try, too. But I wonder if all that interconnectedness will only exacerbate what happens in many office environments—managers spend half their time in meetings and the other half answering email.

I’d like to try out Google Wave too, but right now it’s only open to people via an “Invite”.  Anybody out there in EE land have a spare Invite to throw my way?  Reminds me of the Gmail launch, where you had to know somebody to get in. Zany Google, always trying to make us be in with one of the cool kids!

Thanks!

=Dave

I’ve been testing out Google Wave for project and writing collaboration. So far it seems to work very well for those types of things. But at the same time it can be used like this hypermix between email and twitter; which I imagine if you participate in too many waves would get overwhelming very quickly. That said, it’s very awesome in lots of ways, and while still in preview there are lots of things to be ironed out. For example, I think there needs to be incredibly granular controls on posts/blips. Technically any blip posted to a public wave can be edited by anyone. I think this is fine in general for conversations, but doesn’t work so well for the message the introduces the wave or provides rules for the wave.

Even with the 100,000 plus add in, I still feel like the audience needs to be larger, before we get some real tests for certain types of things. Like being able to invite a group of people to a private wave, and collaborate. Since the likelihood of your collaborators also having a Wave account is thin; you can either make a wave public and try to collect whoever is interested or keep it private with 1 or 2 people.

It would be great for Open Source projects, or small teams working remotely. I use Basecamp as well, but I don’t know if I could work without that. We’ll see.

You think Wave will become part of the their Business Apps offering, or will it just be free to use for all?

At second glance, it looks like CampFire on steroids.

You can embed Waves in webpages via an API (http://code.google.com/apis/wave/guide.html)

Which leads me to ask if anyone is working on a wave module for EE yet? 

If not perhaps I will.  A CI Wave thingie would be cool too.

I’m looking for a google wave invite if anyone has some to spare. Will return the favor however I can.

Like others here I too have applied to get in.
So hands up for an invite if anyone has that ability and is feeling in generous mood.

Having watched the Hour and a half webcast it sure is one hell of an impressive technology that clearly has the potential to evoke fundamental change in the way a number of on-line activities are delivered.

I’m surfing the google wave now - when I get some invites I’ll post back here.

Many of my students complain email is to slow for them - it’s amazing, these digital natives….

tell them to lick a stamp 😊

Many of my students complain email is to slow for them…

I hear that, too, especially from anyone under 30 (my kids included). My wife and I added the text option to our iPhones to keep in contact with our children. They’ll seldom answer the phone live, occasionally answer email, but almost always answer a text message. Go figure.

I think it has something to do with a strange hybrid of instant gratification and and an addiction.

Uhm, I would also very much welcome an invite 😊 Many thanks in advance.