This week Google announced that it will be making some improvements to Google Wave
The features they have added are:
Restore from Playback
Anyone with full access to a wave can now restore that wave to any previous state visible in playback:
Restoring does not delete anything from the playback history, but adds the restored state to the end of the history. That way you can use the new restore function to correct mistakes you or others make in a wave (including restoring the the wrong state!).
Read-Only Participants
The creator of a wave can now change other participants on the wave between full access and read-only by clicking on their picture at the top of the wave panel, and selecting the access level in the drop-down:
As the name implies, read-only participants are prevented from making any changes to the wave, including adding new participants. They can, however, view live changes to the wave, and look at the history in playback.
You can make entire groups read-only as well, including the “public” group, which includes all Google Wave users. Note that individual permissions take precedence over group permissions, so even if a group has full access, an individual can be given read-only access, and vice versa.
We talked about read-only participants in our post titled Google Wave: Top 10 Improvements for 2010. That feature is a combination of our number 2 and 3 recommended improvements. Shortly after that post, we had a tweet from @twephanie (Stephanie Hannon – Google Wave Project Manager) stating:
@ShinyWave we saw your post and are working on many of the requests … thank you for the detailed list and hope to meet you at I/O!
Very encouraging to see that they are taking the feedback that they get from their users seriously. What everybody needs to realize is that this type of interaction with the Google Team is exactly what the Preview Version is all about. It is the reason you have a preview account. Get involved and let them know what your thoughts are regarding the technology and direction you would like to see them focus their efforts.
Stephanie had another tweet asking:
Tweet me the feature or use case you think we should focus on for Wave in 2010! Need some ideas? http://bit.ly/6LMXRr
The link is a Wave that has an awesome (long) list of uses for Google Wave, I recommend you check it out and add to the discussion.
What is your thoughts about these improvements? Share below, we love to hear from you….same as Google.
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