Comments on: What went wrong with Google Wave

By: Searchengineman

Searchengineman — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:17:27 +0000

Read this

completewaveguide.com

Try the product again. Yes I would kill for a wave invite too. Consider yourself fortunate as someone on the outside waiting to get in.

By: uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:55:17 +0000

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By: admin

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:31:47 +0000

I guess I see many of those elements as being fixable UI issues (although I do hate the idea that people can see my typing!)

Wave me me is a bit like standing in a room full of people talking, but instead of just hearing the person you’re talking to directly, you’re hearing everyone who might sound like they are saying something you’re interested in.

My guess is that the reason Google is staggering the invites is so that they get fresh faces when they learn feedback such as this. The unfortunately side-effect is that people have few of the folks they normally communicate with when they are on the system…

By: Nick Light

Nick Light — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:19:02 +0000

Hi Matt

For me Wave is far too noisy – editing other peoples posts (as they are writing it) makes the whole thing a bit of a mess and posts become intermixed.

Plus i really don’t want people to see my text as i type it – they will see all my typos

Maybe this is one of those things that just click with me one day – i hope so, because for all my whinging it does excite me.

Nick L.

By: laura

laura — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:09:41 +0000

I usually work with web-based applications like http://www.showdocument.com
I use it for sharing my designs and documents with partners and clients,
but i guess it can used for other purposes too. If you’re looking for a free solution you should check it out.
- Laura W.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:37:43 +0000

I totally agreed. I end up with a range of staggered replies (because there’s an easy keyboard short-cut to post these replies and I want to use it like I’m using IM), But, the screen quickly becomes unusable. This sort of thing will hopefully get tidied up those – it is a beta!!

By: Made in DNA

Made in DNA — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:29:53 +0000

Very interesting points. I agree most of all with your pointers arguement. I am not sure how to reply in the way that I want to — there seem to be two ways to do it: A) chat-like and B) staggered, but I can never EVER get Wave to reply in the way I want it to. Also, if I create a staggered reply, there’s no way to delete it. ??? What the heck? And I’m not sure how to edit something someone has started already. And what the heck is a ping for? Many questions. Many questions. =)