I can’t seem to think of a very practical use for Google Wave. IMHO it’s a technology that’s neither here nor there. It’s not a very effective replacement for e-mail either as it’s not a scalable model. It’s not exactly a great collaborative tool as well though I agree maybe it has good use for taking meeting minutes and random notes. It’s certainly not a good file sharing or document editing tool.
I’ve been thinking quite a bit on what I can really do with Wave. It’s frustrating actually 😛
On a side note, it’s surprising how the ancient DNS and SMTP protocols we take for granted scaled so well. IETF and IEEE are a bunch of geniuses.
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It’s incredibly frustrating to think up potential use scenarios for Wave. We (as in, my group) can’t seem to think of any at the moment!
if it’s good as a meeting minute tool OR random notes tool, let’s develop our gadgets (or robots) that help users does that better?
I was thinking about that, no eureka idea yet though, either that or it’s already created, e.g. todo list, voting. One thing though… the todo list available on Wave now completely sucks.