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[Kratos]

I was invited to Google Wave by my cousin from a drunk country called Ireland.

https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=wave&passive=true&nui=1&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwave.google.com%2Fwave%2F&followup=https%3A%2F%2Fwave.google.com%2Fwave%2F&ltmpl=standard



I use it and so I thought if you guys want to join, i have a few invites left.

Let me know if you want an invite. 

The person who gets invited will also get invites and we can increase our group.

What do you think?

[killermonkey]

I am not impressed. It is SO isolated from every other media that i use that it is a complete burden to stay followed and up to date with this tool. I almost have to go way out of my way just to even get to the wave interface and when I am there it just seems worthless. You can't import Word, Excel, or any other information. It's rather slow with live updates on Firefox. Furthermore, you can't even export the waves to other media such as my Blackberry, Outlook, or anything!

My biggest gripe is you can never truly delete waves. There is a trash and you can unfollow waves, but they are always somehow connected to your account. That is unsettling.

Also, there is no offline mode whatsoever, which is linked with the inability to export waves to other media.

Short and sweet:

Looks - 6/10
Usability - 4/10
Usefulness - 1/10

[VC]

From what I heard, it's just a private access web forum thread sort of thing.  And it gives Google a shortcut instead of having to crawl your life story and cash-in, in a non-evil manner, of course.

[Kratos]

I am not impressed. It is SO isolated from every other media that i use that it is a complete burden to stay followed and up to date with this tool. I almost have to go way out of my way just to even get to the wave interface and when I am there it just seems worthless. You can't import Word, Excel, or any other information. It's rather slow with live updates on Firefox. Furthermore, you can't even export the waves to other media such as my Blackberry, Outlook, or anything!

My biggest gripe is you can never truly delete waves. There is a trash and you can unfollow waves, but they are always somehow connected to your account. That is unsettling.

Also, there is no offline mode whatsoever, which is linked with the inability to export waves to other media.

Short and sweet:

Looks - 6/10
Usability - 4/10
Usefulness - 1/10

Speaking of slow on firefox, its fast in google chrome. Theres no actually lag when using the chrome browser.

[killermonkey]

Speaking of slow on firefox, its fast in google chrome. Theres no actually lag when using the chrome browser.

Ever wonder why? HAHA

[Mangley]

Google is the biggest data mining corporation in the world. I liked how they pretended I hadn't been visiting porn sites on my dashboard history. Obviously to deter people from disabling it

[olileauk]

Wave, as a collaboration tool, is absolutely flipping wonderful. It has made a project I'm working on with people so much easier long distance than I ever thought possible.

[Cyan]

Some of the concepts seem like a good idea, but just are not really their yet implementation wise. Especially when it may take months to add new people on existing projects since it is still invite only even when their are a non-trivial amount of people who got in and never use it. But it is still in development so it should improve over time, if nothing else it was an attempt and any decent concepts could be lifted for new software projects. All systems have inherent flaws and they have some valid points on how email forums and share-point have often been shoehorned into a solution, that they really don't fit and cause problems later. However wave (or similar type) may not be the best fit for projects either, which is why planing has not ever had a good replacement.