Okay, I'm in Google Wave. Now what?

Their their. Its not everyday that you have to bare the loneliness. I'm sure you're contacts wont peek out at too people.






























I'll get a *&#@ing dictionary

*edit*(thought you were staring a google wave...)

so I read that wrong.

now i'll have to do a search so I know what you're talking about...learn something new.

darn.

Well congrats anyway, what the heck, it's sunday

Seams

I have it too. Damned if I know what I'm supposed to do with it.

Me too! I have a whole one contact.

am back, heck that's pretty cool, looks like chat on the iface i seen. what else does it do?

I can see it being useful for collaboration, maybe, but honestly, I like chat and Google Docs better for that.

I'm going to give it a year or so, but so far?

Meh.

I am so uncool.

I have no idea what the hell you guys are talking about.

Matera the Mad said:

Yeah, if I could get anyone to use Google Docs.

I'm just playing with it 'cause it's there and I can

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I kinda wonder about using Google Docs for critiquing.

Google Wave

Is there an existing thread like this? I didn't see one.

Any other AW peeps using Google Wave? Want to start a list of user names? I've already used it to do some cool editing. It would be a great place to connect with people for further chatting, editing/critiquing, etc...

*Don't ask me to fully describe it. I'm still learning. These links were given to me by another AW member on Wave and I think they might be helpful to others...
http://lifehacker.com/5376138/google-wave-101
http://completewaveguide.com/



I'm pretty sure you still need an invite to join up. I have a small amount I can give out if you're interested. Just PM me.

http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=163648

about ten threads down.

Ah, hello! Didn't see you sitting here, lovely thread.

I'm on it and I had a very successful run of Wave with another AW person tonight. We edited a chapter together. It was great. I think she had a gmail acct, though.

Wow, missed that one. lol Thank you, kind lady.

poetinahat said:

I tried using Google Docs for a collaborative - it was a failure. Access is supposed to work for any email address, at least according to the instructions. In practice, it only worked for gmail addresses. I ended up having to email copies of the document.

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I've used it with non-gmail accounts; I wonder if it was a Web browser issue?

It does not work well with Safari, for instance.

I got it the other day from am 50/90er, he's on my contact list, now there's another 50/90er on my contact list (someone I wrote a song with Summer '88, from across the pond or in Argentina or something)... it seems to work with the latest Firefox, if only I knew what to DO with it...

Never heard of it, but now I'm curious...

I received an invite earlier today. I haven't really looked at it yet, but so far I doubt I'll have much use for it.

I have it as well, but everytime I am on it takes quite a while to load..so I just end up quitting each time. I will eventually give it a go. Seems like tis the season for it, looking at everyone and their invites. Have fun y'all.

Wayne K said:

I'll get a *&#@ing dictionary

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You can put it next to your regular dictionary.

There's this video, I've seen the first half hour or so (if you have connection problems, click the HQ button to turn that off). The first several minutes about how "amazing" and "magical" Google Wave is, all that's just annoying. You won't lose much by skipping ahead to about 6 minute in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ

It's sort of a combo of everything. Drawing apps, pic hosting, email, chat ... Live chat even sends each character as it is typed, just like old-fashioned modems and stuff.

Dunno why it doesn't just come up as a kitchen sink - hot water on the left, cold on the right ... it would make more sense to me.

I've found the text/html docs a lot more interesting and helpful than the &%($** videos.