samer
Good observation Battikh. I guess they will start to hide the emails to robots unless the participant authorizes it.
nourberro
:/ wave seems to be more streamlined , more proffesional, but is it any good? i mean if i have facebook, msn ,nd hotmail y do i need another thing to take my time? its just googles attempt to monopolize the 'social networking ' business, just like browsers, search engines, advertisements, video sharing and broadcasting, and mobile OS ........
Joe
Anyone care to give a detailed review? Mir? samer? anyone ?
battikh
i think the official video google released sums it up the best...
but for me it kind of looks a bit like a forum, it's just that you get to chose who can participate in the discussion and who cannot, and everyone who participates in the discussion is a moderator.... and you can make it completely public (like a forum).
the rest is just details and extra features, just as you can install plugins in a forum to grant new features to the users.
Leonedes
<< is interested for an invite ... i read about it a long time ago last year when paul thurrot first introduced it, and testing beta's is sort of a hobby to me :D
mir
after some time of having it , what is your actual feedback ppl ?
for me :
- when a wave is public , it becomes too crowded.. when i check it again it is like tons of text squeezed together here and there , i feel mostly like scrolling thru it not reading it
- if u are collaborating to produce a document, it is impossible since you can't edit each other sentences , so it is more discussion than collaborating on something to get it done.
- there is no document u can produce out of the wave , no export option, so for example if i am trying to collaborate with ppl to produce a feature list to add to a software - it is kinda useless to do it in wave cuz additional work has to be done later and we can't edit each other
- it has less visuals.. in etherpad , u can use colors for example as a visual guidline to read what this person typed... what the other person edited
- the interface is weird... not that easy to figure out stuff without some googling
- there are lot of useless steps showed why playing back the wave
- no auto play of the wave.. am i supposed to click 150 times to get the wave played ?
- the private invite system sucks, since less ppl have it , less to collaborate on :P , it did create buzz but bleh
- compared to other products like etherpad ( again ) , you have to do more steps to get things rolling
so for me , i am still using google docs and etherpad
Google docs added some features like offline editing , sharing folders and some details that totally rock
etherpad is minimalistic , simple and i still prefer it for the more onlinish collaboration aka "see what others type "
rolf
/me wants invite
rolf
I got 4 invites, and jadbero has some.
J4D
just today i got an invite from google LOL , talk about late (im important) :P i dont know if it works but i will donate the link they sent :P
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Ayman
I have 3 invites left, if anyone wants please tell me :)
crazy
Got several invites to if someone want, pm :) (
christophe.melki@googlewave.com)
Bassem
I checked in today and it seems I have invites to give away. Beep me here in this thread if you want an invite.
J4D
22 INVITES to give away here
Xsever
Got some invites too if someone is interested.
sam_lb
Hey guys....
I have some google wave invites. Whoever wants some, PM me with your email.
For those who are already on google wave, you can add me as well to mess around with the interface:
hussamoueini@googlewave.com
Cheers
