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I wanted to use it for group projects at school, as it seemed like a really good combination of IM (interactive and fast) and email (permanent and viewable at a
by TallGuyShort 16y ago
I wanted to use it for group projects at school, as it seemed like a really good combination of IM (interactive and fast) and email (permanent and viewable at any time), integrated with the ability to share documents, etc... It would make that kind of collaboration so much easier, but it never worked out because no one in any of my classes had heard of Google Wave. I did get to use it a little bit at work, and was a little disappointed by it, but I don't think there's a better tool for coordinating a small group.
- kiriappeee 16y agoThanks. Follow up question. If someone built an extension for interacting with people outside of the wave say by email (yes what they tried to do away with) or maybe sms, then do you think things would have worked out with the school projects scenario?
- bartman 16y agoMr-Ray allows users without wave accounts to participate in a wave. It sends changes by mail and gives them a simplified interface to add content: http://wave.to/projects/mr-ray http://wave.to/projects/mr-ray
- TallGuyShort 16y agoI doubt it - the benefit comes in the fact that IM's happen in real time but are saved for anyone not online. Forwarding it through SMS and email just wouldn't do, I think. If no one had heard of Google Wave, I think they'd be just as scared to start getting lots of emails 'through' it, and no one would actually use the functionality it offers.