Google Wave Thoughts
So today I finally got my invite for Google’s new service “Google Wave” after being nominated last week. I eagerly logged on and started testing it out. The service is quite impressive however I feel like I am working on something that is a bit primitive and maybe the features could have simply been added with google mail. The service works by you adding people into stream called a wave and then being able to add text and media into the wave for which in real time is shown to the users on the other end.
Good points
- Nice and light and easy to navigate.
- Ability to drag photos from folders directly to a wave (Chrome or Google Gears needed).
- Ability to embed youtube videos via the link.
- See photo’s before they are fully loaded.
- Ability to add many different people to a wave
- Ability to send private messages.
- Ability to edit messages after they have been sent.
- Ability to replay a conversation ( Don’t know why you would need to do this )
Bad points
- No real intergration with any other google services
- Can be slow at times when loading a menu
- Settings is non-existant ( See Screenshot )
- If you do not enter any text when you reply it will post the reply with a blank message, not good if you accidentally click below a wave
- Does not seem to register when you have read a wave
- Photo’s can not simply be dragged to the browser unless gears or chrome, they are trying to make this a feature of HTML5 though.
Feel free to browse the pictures and see what you think. If you have Google wave then feel free to add me
cbuckley1992@googlewave.com
