Have you ever received an e-mail with critical information about an event but an unrelated subject line? If you didn't flag it and needed it a few weeks or months later, you could end up wasting quite a bit of time digging for it. Solving this problem by keeping all related conversations in one chronologically organized spot was the genius behind Google Wave, the social networking platform Google launched with much fanfare last year. While many saw its … [Read more...]
Google Wave to Live on as Apache Wave
December 8, 2010 by
Remember Google Wave? Last year I was pretty excited to get an invite to join what was suppose to be Google’s hot new social networking platform. With Google Wave, collaborators share—in real time or over time—e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking merged into topical waves (kind of a cross between chatting and threaded discussions on a blog). Like many people, I didn't end up doing much with it (in my case due to a lack of collaborators), so I … [Read more...]
Google Says ‘Good-Bye’ to Google Wave
August 6, 2010 by
After a little more than a year, Google is waving "good-bye" to Google Wave. Google Wave was supposed to be the hot new social networking platform and for a time you were considered special if you had been one of the lucky ones to receive an invite. The only thing is many people, including me, couldn't find a pratical "real work" use for it. With Google Wave, collaborators share—in real time or over time—e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking … [Read more...]
My Membership in ‘Exclusive Club’ Ends
May 21, 2010 by
My membership in the "exclusive" Google Wave club is over. Google announced yesterday that it is making the invite-only, real-time communication tool available to everyone, including Google Apps users, at wave.google.com. Like last year's Google Wave introduction, the announcement took place at the Google I/O Conference. With Google Wave, collaborators share—in real time or over time—e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking merged into topical … [Read more...]
A Peek at the Google Wave Extensions Gallery
March 13, 2010 by
Remember Google Wave? Last November I was pretty excited to get an invite to join Google's experimental real-time communication platform (which is still in preview and not released to the public). After I got the invite, I immediately logged on and played around a little bit—but largely by myself. With Google Wave, collaborators share e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking merged into topical waves. Since I didn't have any collaborators, or at … [Read more...]
Google Wave Developer Preview
October 15, 2009 by
I hope I can get a Google Wave invite. Google Wave is "a personal communication and collaboration tool" announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009. It is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. About a million people were extended invitations starting Sept. 30, 2009, with the initial 100,000 users each allowed to invite from 20 to 30 … [Read more...]
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