by Mickey on January 25, 2010
Slowly but surely, Google Wave is building out the expected features that people want. They’re still missing some huge ones (publish to a site, print, rearrange blips, etc), but they’re getting there.
The latest two they’ve added are User Access Permissions and Restore from Playback.
User Access Permissions
This allows you to add people to a Wave with read-only access. One neat thing you can do is allow public read-only access to the Wave to show it off to a wide variety of people without worrying about them messing it up.
You can make groups or individuals read-only. Coming soon will be “reply only” access which allows users to reply to blips but not edit the blips that they didn’t create.
Restore from Playback
If a Wave gets messed up, anyone with full access to the Wave can restore it to a previous point. This “restore” actually becomes a new instance at the end of the playback history, so others could essentially un-restore it if necessary.
What do you think is the biggest issue that needs to be addressed next?
by Mickey on January 19, 2010
Since my last entry, Chris Brogan has really become a fan of Google Wave. Here are a few posts of his that you need to check out:
Tips for Google Wave: After using it a bit, he’s developed some techniques that may be useful to those of you just getting started.
Using Google Wave for Task Management: Is Google Wave a suitable tool for managing your tasks? At this point, I don’t really think it is, but it certainly could become one.
How I Came to Love Google Wave: He’s now pretty much “all in”. He loves Wave, and appreciates what it can do. He admits that it has a limited scope of usefulness so far (“if you have no obvious collaboration project to try it on, it doesn’t immediately make sense”) but sees a lot of potential in it.
Also, Lifehacker has just built a great chart that shows the differences between Wave and other current web-based collaboration systems.
It’s a nifty little chart, and certainly makes it look like Google Wave is something to keep an eye on. Once they fill in those last few boxes at the bottom, it’ll be a very powerful system.
Slowly but surely, Google Wave is building out the expected features that people want. They’re still missing some huge ones (publish to a site, print, rearrange blips, etc), but they’re getting there.
