» google wave http://jefah.com humans not nations Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:25:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 with:public http://jefah.com/2009/10/withpublic/ http://jefah.com/2009/10/withpublic/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:11:00 +0000 jefah http://jefah.com/?p=160 I have been using Google Wave for a few weeks now.  It got of to a slow start for me..my first wave was integrating with friends form IRC.  I was more of a kill the wave fest than the collaborative experience we were expecting to have.  But the wave is what you make of it and we didn’t make much at all.  After paying around with the technology I starting hunting for more to do.  I was hitting a brick wall of disappointment that I would have to assume that most people hit between being invited to Google Wave and discovering…..

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……{with:public} opens up the world to public waves…add a keyword or phase and your away.  Public waves are buggy and slow, but if controlled they can perform well.  The key seems to be keeping your waves free of robots and extensions.

Google Wave is what I was expecting accept for one thing..it is far more social than I thought hit would be.  I have been meeting new people, hooking up with old friends, and trying to hid from others.  Discussions break off into branches, yet these branches are easy to follow even when the wave grows.  Hitting the space bar moves you through the wave via the unread blips  When you reach he end of one way he space bar finds the next wave with an unread blips and takes you there. 

I’m a compete Google Wave fan boy.

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