Google Wave

So what does everyone think.Anyone actually managed to find a use for this application?

I've 23 invites by the way..but as I cannot seem to find a way to use it that is better than Facebook or MSN(though it does seem to have more privacy than Facebook) I'm failing to see it becoming a large part of my online life.

[joglynne]

I have two wave accounts. In general it just seems like an over complicated version of Facebook. I have used the one opened in my family name, putting up photos and arranging a couple of get togethers but I wouldn't say it has really been a roaring success. We started off using it then swapped back over to the simpler and much more user friendly Googletalk so we can all natter as usual. I haven't used my other 'public' wave account at all.

[SnoopZ]

I never log in and use it at all.

same as pretty much a waste of time for now but who knows

[Bob]

I can see the benefits at work, from a collaborative point of view, but it is unnecessarily complicated!!

[SnoopZ]

Google Wave is to be killed off by the end of the year, i personally thought it was crap and never used it.

http://www.neowin.net/news/google-is...to-google-wave

same as not surprised

[punky]

It was revolutionary but the trouble is with Google is if something isn't an instant success, they can it.

Wave was supposed to be Email 2.0 (and upgrade we badly need, it hasn't changed since the 70s) but they spent too much time laying the ground work and not enough time promoting it.

[iFrankie]

I've not logged onto it in ages.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Bob

I can see the benefits at work, from a collaborative point of view, but it is unnecessarily complicated!!

Depends on how you use it.. We were going to use it at work. Never understood why, everyone who was going to use it works in the same building, and it's actually quicker for us to go and see the people we are working with.

Originally Posted by SnoopZ

Google Wave is to be killed off by the end of the year, i personally thought it was crap and never used it.

http://www.neowin.net/news/google-is...to-google-wave

TBH, I am not entirely surprised. Yes, it had a funky UI, but it didn't seem to do anything a number of other products don't do. Products which don't require that you send potentially secret information to a server outside your intranet. OK, that's more of a concern from a corporate point of view, but they did seem to be pushing Wave to the enterprise customers.

[Jimmy-J]

What's Google Wave?

Well it was too complicated for the average user.

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Anyone here use Google Buzz? I've a friend whose embraced it wholeheartedly but that's it.

[dilli-theclaw]

Not tried buzz. I did use wave for a while but gave up on it.

[Peter_]

It is so good that I forgot that it even existed.