Comments on: Google Wave http://www.garyandrews.net/2009/11/27/google-wave/ Poorly designed blog WLTM content for social media, football and general waffle Sun, 08 Jan 2012 07:07:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Pack http://www.garyandrews.net/2009/11/27/google-wave/comment-page-1/#comment-1124 Mark Pack Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:00:21 +0000 http://www.garyandrews.net/?p=958#comment-1124 You hit the nail on the head with the reference to small group collaboration. I can see Wave being very useful for a couple of small groups I am part of who regularly collaborate by emailing round documents etc at the moment. If Wave gets bug fixes and extra features, it'll be a major boon for those situations. But they are very niche, which is where much of the hype about Wave goes way over the top. It may well revolutionise small group collaboration amongst geographically dispersed people, but that's a pretty small part of what people use email or the internet for. You hit the nail on the head with the reference to small group collaboration. I can see Wave being very useful for a couple of small groups I am part of who regularly collaborate by emailing round documents etc at the moment. If Wave gets bug fixes and extra features, it’ll be a major boon for those situations.

But they are very niche, which is where much of the hype about Wave goes way over the top. It may well revolutionise small group collaboration amongst geographically dispersed people, but that’s a pretty small part of what people use email or the internet for.

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