My first day with Google Wave
Finally, I received a Google Wave invitation from a friend today. It seems that my theory about the invitation mechanism of Google Wave is not correct. Anyhow I am happy to have the change to try it while there are still a lot of people requesting their invitation.
But I only tried only a few features of Google Wave due to 2 reasons: First, I don’t have many contacts who also have Google Wave account; Second, I didn’t get enough time to test it. So my first day experience with Google Wave was quite limited.
I think the ultimate target of Google Wave is to provide a universal communication platform. To make this happen, a reasonable way is to integrate traditional ways of communication, such as Email, IM and so on. It will give users a method to transfer smoothly from traditional communication tools to Google Wave. But at this moment, these kind of works are still far away to be done. Maybe Google has too many products to integrate now.
To use other communication method than wave, users have to add different bots to their waves. The only bot I have tried was Tweety, the Twitter bot for Google Wave.
- The first thing I found about Tweety is that its address is not tweety@appspot.com but tweety-wave@appspot.com.
- The second thing I found that was that if I already had other threads in that wave, the input window of Tweety would cover the first few threads on the top. This remained my another question:
- The extensions of Google Wave make it more powerful. However, since most extensions are developed by third party. To make them compatible and consistent will be a complex task.
- Back to the Tweety bot, it seemed to be not good enough for me to access Twitter via Google Wave. It would generate many messages from my twitter time-line. But replying a single message would not generate reply on Twitter. Only tweets typed in the input box of Tweety would be displayed on Twitter.
- As some people already complained, if I add other people to my wave, they don’t have the option to decline it.
- I couldn’t find the reason the option to remove a contact from my wave was invalid.
- At this moment, a wave could not be completely deleted. It could only be moved to Trash folder instead. As a Wave could be a very complex mixture of text, media and other document types from many people, all history of the wave will be recorded. Any modification could be traced back and nothing could be deleted.
It took Gmail more than 5 years to get rid of the beta label. As far as I have seen, Google Wave needs more works to do to become more than a preview. Moreover Gmail and other Google Apps are products based on existing concepts, Google Wave is an innovative concept, which is still developing. After the exciting at beginning, more and more people are asking: “What we can do with Google Wave.”
do you have any WAVE invitations? plz send me one if so, thx.
at gmail.com: skyjacc
I don’t have any Wave invitation at this moment.
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