Update on Google Wave

Okay guys, so Google Wave. Lets discuss. Google Wave is as said by Google "email made in the 21st century". I enjoy it. I love using it. It's a great way to collaborate about anything with anyone connected with Google Wave. Well, at the moment Google Wave is in private beta, and mainly the people who have Google Wave accounts are tech enthusiasts or someone in that general field. Basically what I am trying to say is that mostly it has smart people with similar interests. The general public does not have access to it yet, therefore spammers and trollers don't have access to mess it up right now. Now, that aside i'll tell you some of my experiences of using Google Wave.

When I first used Wave, I searched for a public wave that was discussing the tv show Heroes. We literally spent the whole episode with out side commentary. We asked questions about the show, answered each others questions, made predictions about the episode. We did it all. And it pretty much reminded me as if we were talking in a forums about the show. Only we did it in real time. We made a new wave for the next episode and low and behold when the next episode came out we all discussed there again. Already I liked Wave. Next I used Wave to find other people who use the Steam game client for PC games. I found a whole list of waves but found one where everyone was sharing Steam ID's. Let's just say I have a whole new list of friends on Steam to play games with. I've used Wave to talk to classmates about project assignments, sharing images across multiple computers, threading whole conversations and sharing it with others, even comparing school schedules.

I used Wave most recently to set up dates with my friends who are coming back for thanksgiving vacation from college. We set up what we are going to do, what places, shared links to things happening that day, and even added other people to the wave that we knew who we thought would be interesting if they came along.

Google Wave is going to be a sure big hit when it finally opens to the public. My only concerns is how spammers will attack it, and also how it would be once its flooded by other users. Only time will tell but I know this, I love Google Wave and how easy it makes communicating. Have I mentioned that Google is actually listening to the developers? We wanted an easier way to view public waves without being placed in it automatically, and look at what they did, they added a follow/unfollow button. Thanks Google!