I was late, like always in life. Everything I started was late. In my own view, I never run after things, I just took my time. No wonder that I read all about Google Wave and the invites that have been floating around for a while now. Mashable even stated desperate people paid money just to get a GWave invite. Geez. I wasn’t that desperate but curious. As I checked my Facebook this morning and saw a friend posted he had some invites to throw out, I was quick to reply. A couple of minutes later I got hooked up and- joined the wave. 11/23/09, 11:57am.
First impression?
Simple screen, pretty much Google-like. I actually like that about all the Google products. Simple design, nothing fancy, lots of text elements, but clear and usable. If you already have a Google profile it will be used for your Google Wave account. You sign in with your Google user name plus password and receive a new email address yourname@googlewave.com
For those of you who are yet unfamiliar with the whole GWave concept: imagine you’re in a meeting with 10 people, and you need to crank out an idea within 10 minutes. What is happening is you are communicating, arguing, discussing, bringing in ideas, throwing them out, listen, talk, and ‘digest’.
Now let’s say you’re not in a meeting, but in your office cubical, or somewhere else. You can send out an email to everybody you want to be involved in the brainstorm and collect answers. Or you can open an IM session and collect ideas there.
Google Wave lets you communicate in real-time. All you do is choosing the people you want to join in and get a conversation, or Wave, started. Like in a chat, people can reply, like in an email, people can edit what has been said, and like in a blog, people can share and implement multimedia elements like pictures, videos, mp3s, or plain links. That’s what makes communicating with GWave so fascinating, you literally see your talk partner typing in the characters in real time and can react instantly.
I started only a short Wave with my friend but will see who’s online tomorrow. I’ll dig deeper and post more!
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