This will be my last post regarding all the different use cases of Google Wave. This is the last one because….there is a lot and if you are having trouble finding one…well, I just don’t know what to say anymore! There is, in my mind anyway, a non-ending myriad of use cases for how you can use Google Wave. But, if you are having a difficult time then this list titled The Awesome List for Google Wave 2.5 will definitely give you some ideas.
Here is how they describe the List:
Welcome!
There are so many different uses for Google Wave that the developers can’t think of all the ways to use it. Even you might be reading this wave without a clue as to how you can use Wave. So I decided to enlist all Wave users that want to share their discovered/brainstormed uses for Wave to help compile a list of uses and make it as big as possible! Awesome right? Now it’s time for the millions of Wave riders to help find new uses for this wonderful product! Let’s do this.
We are only looking for general ideas on this wave, if you want more detail in the use cases please see this wave: The Comprehensive Usage Guide to Google Wave.
They then give 76 documented uses for wave:
- Brainstorming Uses For Wave (This Wave)
- Email Replacement
- IM Replacement
- Live Forums
- Private Notes
- Role Playing Games (Text-Only or with Gadgets)
- Collaborative Book Writing (several authors writing different characters/sections in a novel/book)
- Collaborative Songwriting, Lyric Writing, Screenplays, (rhyme, thesaurus dictionary bot needed)
- Crowd-Sourced Language Proof Editing and Expert Fact Check for Fiction and Manuals
- Microblogging (Tweety and Regular Wave) (Rich microblogging as you can include files, rich formatting & have comments?)
- Blogging (With live comments and collaboration)
- Content/UI Aggregation (All your content and interfaces in one place)
- Live Meeting/Lecture Notes
- Customer Support/Relations (via Robot or live support), with collaborative FAQ as main content.
- Social Networking
- Bug Tracking
- Running and managing learning activities (Teachers)
- Auctions (listing and bidding maybe paying)
- Classifieds (listings and discussion)
- Personal Information Management (To Do Lists, Calendars, Contact Cards, etc)
- Robot Conversations
- Media Sharing (Photo galeries, YouTube, etc.)
- Live Private Or Public Wikis
- Collaborative Whiteboard
- Ticketing System (For Debuging And Tech Support)
- Coding/Pair Programming/Code Reviews (with ksyntaxy robot)
- Live Commenting Systems (for YouTube and such)
- Live Suggestion Boxes
- Flame Wars (Steph wasn’t excited about this one in the google i/o video)
- All forms of Debates
- Sports/Event Commentary
- Planning Events, Live Invitations/Meeting Requests
- Distance Learning/Meetings (Without the telepresence)
- Agenda Management
- Online Card Games like Poker (with a gadget)
- Session Discussions During Conventions – better than Tweets with hash tags
- Interactive glossary/encyclopedia
- School team projects (Writing report together, etc)
- Dynamic Newsletters (Could use Google Groups for this)
- Brainstorming
- Project planning/management
- Gaming logs for multiplayer and single player games (will need some sort of bot to post to a wave)
- Research Notes
- Board game implementations (will need dice bots, card bots and some way of representing the board)
- Wargame implementation (very similar to the one above, but further complicated by the fact that wargames would need more complex movement and line of sight implementations)
- On-the fly newsroom TELEPROMPTER (closed captioning) editing during live news broadcasts
- College/Graduate/Law School: Collaborative study group
- Last minute updates for emergency services
- Community Update Services (Non-Emergency)
- A way to discuss and create recipes
- A wave for designing GUIs (would need some sort of widget for fast prototyping)
- Artists interacting with their fans.
- Agencies introducing a product.
- Journalists constructing an article, while interacting with readers.
- Online Quiz games
- Collaborative graphic design (with client or partner)
- Spam (it’s going to happen…unfortunately)
- Collaborative analysis of chess games (archived games or real-time)
- Genealogy collaboration
- Tax Audit Collaboration
- Remote team management (business, managing employees, sales people)
- Online Town Squares to talk about current events
- Interactive Wish Lists (With Links and Pictures)
- Police manhunt
- Shopping/Grocery List
- Interactive Greeting Cards
- Education: real time feedback of student work from teacher or bot
- Travel Itinerary
- VOIP-based voice conferencing tied to a wave so you can talk real-time as you collaborate. Recording or adding audio to a wave is a different concept.
- Supervising PhD Thesis and dissertations
- Publishing and monitoring best prices
- Online press conferences
- Writing mathematics documents – requires native support for MathML and LaTeX-like dialects for inline/displayed equations and symbols [This is relatively simple to add on the server-side but would be a total game-changer for academic users. Also, requires a well thought out UI to allow code and WYSIWYG and/or handwriting of symbols]
- Lifestreaming (Special robots could be used for this)
- Intra-office memos (Vacation Requests,etc)
- Data collection for sociology and psychology using quantitative and qualitative research methods (example: Q methodology)
- Handling exceptions to structured business processes (for example Purchase to pay)
- Identifying and following up actions from balanced scoredcards/performance management solutions
This list is by no means all that there is. As I stated above I think that there is really an un-ending myriad of use cases. Thus, when I see someone Twitter that they can’t find any use for Google Wave I get this mental picture in my mind of this person that you do not want me to share.
Got an interesting use case you want to share? Are you already using Google Wave with one of the use cases above? Share your thoughts below, we love to hear your thoughts and opinions.
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