Thursday, December 03, 2009

Do you feel Wave will really make a Wave??

You know all plus points of Google Wave, if you don’t please see Google’s one plus hour video or a ten minutes video. Google themselves have explained some circumstances where people can use Google Wave. Before going more into review part of it, let me ask you few basic questions

1) How many of us really organize an event in Google Calendar. Even if we do we send a mail to people about it??
2) Meeting Notes: Do you use any of google products including Gmail for sending Meeting Minutes??
3) Group reports and writing projects: Again the same question once you left your schooling do you really bother to use Google Apps for any of your projects??
4) Brainstorming: Same as above, we rather call for a meeting to brainstorm??
5) How often do you share photos through GTalk or do you prefer to share it in a picasa web album or similar products like orkut to do that?

Though there are many chances that we can use Google Wave for above said examples but existing applications are handy enough to do it.
For e.g. let’s take organizing a event, if you are in a matured organization who have their own email servers and domain normally prefer Calendar Invites through Outlook or Lotus Notes because they have integrated these application to their email servers. In case you organize personal meetings then probably we will call our friends and ask them to be there at the venue, to a maximum extend we use a Group chat for clarifying doubts, even if the matter get worse they reply to few of your mails which is not really bulky and it is always real time. Google waves real time updates won’t work always because your friends choose to reply to your mails at their free time.
Meeting Notes, Group Reports and Writing Projects: All these things happen in your work place and probably your organization follow standard ways of doing it. If it’s a private meeting and you need to inform you attendees about the minutes, you probably send them a mail.
Similarly Brainstorming is done at meeting rooms and Photos are shared through Picasa, Orkut because those things, people really don’t require a live update.

Not denying the fact that any of the above situation you can use wave, but my question is, do we really need to move to Wave for doing this? Until Google come up something more innovative I don’t think Google Wave is much more than a GTwitterTalkMail (Gmail + Twitter + Gtalk) and of course you can consider Wave as a combination of all these (like the universal remote) provided you are succesfull in convincing all your friends to move to another Social Networking (I call that so ) site .
If anyone wishes to try Wave please send me a mail to admin@dhaneshnair.com and sorry I just have few invites left. Google guys are sending only few (8) of them.

1 comment:

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