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Google Docs takes in Google Wave real time collaboration

Daniel — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:00:04 +0000

Yesterday the Official Google Docs Blog announced the release of new Google Docs features, now available in preview mode, focused on improving speed and collaboration on documents shared in the cloud.

Remember Google Wave? One of Wave’s most useful and impressive features is collaborative live editing: Google Docs lets you co-edit documents in real time. You can discuss with colleagues on the sidebar chat, while you add comments and see what others are typing on your shared documents. Real-time editing and chat in documents and spreadsheets will improve productivity in the enterprise.

Collaboration, performance and chat are not the only improvements in this Google Docs upgrade: Document formatting, margins, tab stops and image layouts have greatly improved on the document editor.

The spreadsheet editor is faster and thanks to the new formula bar for cell editing, drag and drop columns and auto-complete, can be compared to its offline counterparts.

The new drawing editor could become a useful tool to create flow charts, diagrams and schematics.

Watch the new Google Docs features in action in the video below.

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Resources for Google Wave

Guillaume — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:44:20 +0000

Surfing can be good fun, but you have to get the good material and learn how to use the board. So to help you to become the Laird Hamilton of Google Wave, here is some help.

Get started with Google Wave

http://mashable.com/2009/10/01/google-wave-get-started/

A complete guide from Mashable

http://mashable.com/2009/05/28/google-wave-guide/

Use the following feature

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/12/google-wave-declutters-the-inbox-with-following-feature/

Google Wave iPhone app

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/04/waveboard-puts-google-wave-iphone-application-up-for-sale/

Google Desktop Client

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/marketplace/index.cfm?event=marketplace.offering&offeringid=16581

For developers, a guide to develop gadget for Google Wave

http://www.slideshare.net/byoogle/developing-a-google-wave-extension

Things you can do with the wave

http://mashable.com/2009/11/14/google-wave-use-cases/

Waves on how to use Google Wave

http://www.bitrebels.com/geek/lost-inside-google-wave-5-waves-to-make-your-life-easier/

Google Wave for project management

http://lifehacker.com/5407183/how-to-manage-a-group-project-in-google-wave

To overcome your disappointment with the wave

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/26/why-google-wave-sucks/

Google Wave and Conferences

http://blog.freshnetworks.com/2009/11/google-wave-vs-twitter-at-conferences/

4 Great Gadgets to Spice Up Your Google Wave Experience

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-great-gadgets-to-spice-up-your-google-wave-experience/

4 Surprising Google Wave Uses

http://mashable.com/2009/12/15/surprising-google-wave-uses/

Chris Brogan’s Google Wave Wish List

http://www.chrisbrogan.com/my-google-wave-wish-list/

Google Wave’s Massive Potential for Business Users

http://mashable.com/2009/12/18/google-wave-business/

How to Add Google Wave to Your Facebook Account

http://bmiint.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-to-add-google-wave-inside-your.html

How I Came to Love Google Wave

http://www.chrisbrogan.com/how-i-came-to-love-google-wave/

9 Practical Ways of Using Google Wave

http://socialwayne.com/2010/01/11/google-wave-business/

Young People Negotiate Copenhagen Deal Using Google Wave

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/dec/15/copenhagen-google-wave-youth-panel

And if you still wonder what you can do with a wave, have a look at how Pulp Fiction fits into it!

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Is Google Wave really so waving?

Lorena — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:41:34 +0000

It has now been a while since Google Wave has sent out their first invites to a selected few. Since then the wave has been spreading, invites have been rolling out and the blogosphere is alive with reviews and suggestions for optimisation.
Just yesterday Mashable reported on Wave’s new feature, the Twitter-like option to follow and unfollow certain waves. The reason for this being the general critique that Wave can get quite hectic and difficult to keep up with if many people edit many different Waves all the time.

This brings me to a question I got from a friend after I finally received my own invitation.

“So, is Wave like Facebook 2.0? Or more like e-mail?”

I think the biggest reason for all that noise on Wave is that it’s trying to be the 2.0 version of pretty much every communication platform out there.

You can send messages to people’s wave addresses much like E-Mail
You can edit your messages after they have been sent and those of others like a Wiki
You can use it to chat to individuals or whole groups like you can on Skype
As previously mentioned, you can now follow and unfollow Waves like you can on Twitter
Even though available extensions are currently limited, the Wave Sandbox developers are busy creating more and more practical and fun extensions which are starting to remind me a lot of the applications you get on Facebook
You can upload/attach images on which your friends can comment like Flickr
And most importantly these days… everything is happening in Real Time!

Considering the above, it is not surprising at all that most of the critique and optimisation efforts go towards the issue of ‘drowning out the noise’. Admittedly, the noise is not that big these days, as most people are still waiting for their invite. So reality is very much like this image found on the web illustrates.

But once Wave goes public we will be flooded with Waves, extensions, comments, amends, polls, pictures and maps that it will be impossible to keep up with everything. Unless Google gets is under control that is.

Until then, at least we can use it to solve the most fundamental issues of the Universe:

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