Remember when you were a kid and you couldn’t sleep in anticipation of Christmas morning? You would lay in bed, tossing and turning, just hoping that you’d fall asleep so when you opened your eyes it would be morning and would only have felt like moments. That’s exactly how I felt Tuesday night in anticipation of my Google Wave invite.
I woke up in the middle of the night to take my dog outside and I grabbed my phone to check emails (which I usually do). To my surprise – there it was all shiny, bold, and new! A google wave invite just for me! I was ecstatic. Couldn’t wait to get online to check it out. I logged in at 3:30 in the morning (yes some would call that crazy, but I call it excited) and what I found was astonishing.
Google Wave is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. The platform is innovative yet easy and logical to use. It has proven to be everything I could ever want in a communication tool. No more sending emails back and forth, missing opportunities to respond to specific parts of conversations, or watching that darn message at the bottom of a chat window that says, ” ’so and so’ is typing a message.”
I can create “waves” very easily, link to other waves, add extensions, even create ways to keep myself organized. Things are so much easier with Wave. If I think about all of the tools I use just to complete daily tasks at work (Outlook, Word, chat, project tracking systems, photo gallery software, social media, wiki collaboration, and the list goes on), Wave combines all of that into one platform. It makes life so much easier.
Since it’s only been two days that I’ve had a Google Wave account I’m certainly still learning all of its features. There are only a few small things that I wish it had. For one thing, I’d like some kind of indicator that one of my contacts is online (just like with gmail with the green circle next to a contact). It may also be a nice feature to have the ability to set a status (i.e. “MKB is working on a blog post for Fresh Squeezed Tech”) along with the online indicator.
Other than that I’m still learning. I am so looking forward to having more contacts to wave with, but that’s only a matter of time. In another post I mentioned that Google’s idea of Wave replacing email was hard to imagine, but after having access to it for only two days – I’m in agreement with Google. This tool has the potential to completely blow email (and other technologies) out of the water. I, for one, can’t wait to see that day come!
About me, hmmm, where to start. Ok, my interest in technology, internet, and website design all started when AOL first launched as an ISP. This was the beginning of the internet craze.
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