Before We Are The Network concludes that Google is indeed evil, I’d like to mention here two blogposts pointing out some great use cases for Google Wave. I particularly appreciate the fact that these use cases are no rocket science.
On Rezzable Thinkerer Melville explains how to use Wave for collaborative blogging, actually calling it “informational networking”. He goes into great detail explaining how exactly he uses Wave for organizing his blogging, even using it for collecting and organizing links. One very important element is tagging.
FreshNetworks compares Twitter with Google Wave as a backchat channel during conferences. As yet this is not easy to experiment with because many people don’t have access to Wave, but in this case invites were provided. It seems that some pretty impressive reporting on the conference was enabled.
We should realize that Wave is still in preview. Experiments at conferences are done by early adopters, and as we all know, early adopters are kind, gentle and civilized. I guess it was not a problem at the conference to have people editing each others notes – but that will most certainly become a problem once the service is accessible by all. By then I can only hope that access management for waves will be more sophisticated (like it is now the case for wikis).
Roland Legrand