[Web4lib] Anyone Using Google Wave?

[Norma Jean Hewlett]

I suggested it to my workgroup (9 people in 5 geographically separated
locations) but nobody wanted to try it.

I also tried it with several groups of friends. We played with it for a
while, some people figured out how to do very cool things with it, but then
everybody seemed to loose interest.

My sense was that it's a tool with a lot of potential, but it wasn't quite
ready for prime time yet. Google should have rolled it out to teams who
wanted to use it for a project, not to individuals.

I found it especially irritating that the stuff I was actually working on
all seemed me be in the lower right hand corner of the screen - if I could
have resized and repositioned that window, it would have made a huge
difference in usability for me. Interestingly enough, the new SecondLife
viewer software does the same thing, so perhaps it's a current "in thing"
for visual interface designers.

Good luck with your presentation! What are you using Wave for? Did you have
more success than we did?

Jean Hewlett
University of San Francisco
aka
Riven Homewood
Director, Steelhead Public Library, SecondLife

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Christine Peterson <peterson at amigos.org>wrote:

> I'll be doing a short presentation on Google Wave this week and wanted
> to find out if anyone has started using it - either professionally or
> personally.  I'm having a hard time finding real implementations (or
> even libraries that are testing for possible implementation).
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> If you're using it - or know someone who is - please let me know.
> Thanks!
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