After much fanfare and lot of begging, pleading, threatening, and blackmailing, The Furobiker got a Google Wave invite! I used it for about half an hour, checking all the geeky nerdy websites, and for what all it can be used. My final verdict - Its waste!
I mean unless you have to collaborate with people sitting 7 samundar paar, or you are soo lazy to play sudoku alone, you can use google wave and its sudoku and other apps. It is basically a big chat window, where many people can lazily chat with each other at their own convenient times and inserting whatever apps, video, yes/no questions or whatever in it! I am just wondering why the hell was so much craze and fanfare among people for this?
Anyways one good feature can be termed as "beware!!" feature in Google Wave. If two people are sending each other a wave, Person 2 can real-time character by character read what person 1 is typing! So if you are a patni ka sataya hua pati or girlfriend ka sataya hua boyfriend who vents out his frustration by typing abuses in the chat window but deletes before pressing enter (zindagi kisse pyari nahi hoti bhayya? - who doesn't fear for his life?!). Your game is over now. Buuuhuuuhuuu :(
Anyways if you belong to the rare well read - pade likhe log, here is this site which supposidly is Google Wave 101 guide. If you find a single good reason for me to use google wave, do let me know.
Like they taught us to end letters in school -
Thanking you, Yours Faithfully, Yours sincerely, Yours Truly
The Furobiker
Monday, November 16, 2009
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4 comments:
I totally agree with you.
And i gave it more than half an hour. More than one day actually.
Still no hope for it.
Plus - its no fun at all with only Wave ppl online to talk to. Unlike email where it was better email, this is just to restricted in its reach!
Dude,
I think you are being too harsh. It is still a preview not fully featured. Also, apps and all are added when more and more people start using it. It is still a pioneer and mainly being tested.I think once everyone starts using it, it ll be a buzz. As google says, its a new form of communication with underlying technology completely revamped. Give it some time..
Dude .. I seriously haven't read a more simplified review of anything ever before.
And its not a compliment !!!
I am gonna make sure I don't visit your blog again. Thanks for enlightening me :)
seriously? it seems like you don't think "collaboration" is important to achieve anything.
i for one, have used it in so many ways: manager one on ones, team meetings, project evals, summits, and it has made my work so much more simpler.
Oh, and as a corporate trainer, it's such a huge benefit for overseas training - saves travel budget, delivers training and ramp so beautifully.
And this is just me talking from my narrow day to day job perspective. :)
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