Google Wave: Top 10 Improvements for 2010

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December 19 th

4

Rules for Effective Waves

I read many blog posts and twitter tweets that talk about how difficult it is control a Wave…and they are right, it takes work to ensure you have an effective Wave. Nothing changes, when you invite a bunch of people to come to the same place and collaborate together on something…you need rules. That led me [...]

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December 16 th

7

Second Life comes to Google Wave

If you are not familiar with Second Life™ it is “the Internet’s largest user-created, 3D virtual world community.” Now, I have to admit I don’t know too much about this virtual world. But it seems like getting started is nothing more then making your own avatar and then entering the world and meeting folks. There [...]

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December 4 th

9

Google Wave Helping Scientists Collaborate

Google Wave is, without any doubt, the ultimate collaboration tool ever. Thus, it was only a matter of time before the ultimate collaborators, the scientists, became Google Wave fanboys. I came across a couple of Science Waves yesterday that I thought I would share: Life Scientists Research Portal – Meant to be a jumping point [...]

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November 29 th

2

Ottawa (Google) Wave Camp (Hack-a-thon) Wrap-up

The Ottawa (Google) Wave Camp (Hack-a-thon) was held yesterday at The Code Factory in downtown Ottawa. Attendance for the event was great, the event sold out approximately 2 weeks after being announced. The highlight agenda items for the event was: Step-by-step (Implementing a Google Wave gadget, ‘Hello World’ example) Google Wave Federation Server – Implementing [...]

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November 24 th

3

Google Wave Etiquette – Moderating Your Wave

Many folks have a real problem with the idea of anybody you invite to your Wave being able to edit what you have written. To address this problem there has been much written about Google Wave Etiquette. However, I think a really important Wave that has been posted is one by Elliot Cable (elliottcable@googlewave.com) titled Moderating Your [...]

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November 22 nd

4

Google Wave + RPGs = Excellent Experience!

Role-playing games (RPG)s have become quite popular in Google Wave.The list of available RPGs continue to grow along with the RPG Google Wave community itself. Reviews of the experience that I have read indicate that Google Wave is an excellent way to play RPGs. Moreover, the community seems quite excited about the gadgets and robots [...]

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October 28 th

8

Post ideas on how to improve Google Wave

Everyone you talk too (or at least everyone I talk too) has an opinion on what Google needs to do to improve the extremely popular and…dare I say…overhyped Google Wave. [Side Note Here: I say overhyped because all these predictions about Google Wave being an email, Facebook, Twitter, Sharepoint, on and on Killer is completely [...]

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October 5 th

5

Cheat Sheet – Wave FAQ

This was a Wave started by Liang Cai in the Developer Sandbox. This should be helpful to all the new users out there: Wave FAQ This is a public FAQ. The content of this FAQ is licensed under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license, to be compatible with Wikipedia et al. Where is the sample code? http://code.google.com/apis/wave/samples/index.html How [...]

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September 30 th

18

Cheat Sheet: Hints and Tips For Google Wave

This is another post that acts as a great cheat sheet while you surf the wave. Credit for this info belongs to Ross Gardler as it is his “Wave” that holds this info. A wave of notes on using Google Wave. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license.You are considered to agree [...]

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September 26 th

19

New Google Wave Users: Cheat Sheet

In the next few days Google Wave will be opened to another 100,000 users. The below information is actually taken from a current Wave that was posted by Gregory Dalesandre. It is an extremely helpful Cheat Sheet and I recommend printing it out and having nearby as you navigate around the Wave Client. Search Cheat [...]

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September 22 nd

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