After Action Report
So, last night, wojelah, shetiger, and I attempted to use GoogleWave to groupchat. Mostly we made a mess but here are a few things we learned:
1) You type in real-time, like the old ICQ. So it's occasionally necessary to think before you start instead of just thinking before you hit done. :P
2) Wave stacks conversations, so I could be chatting with shetiger about Criminal Minds in one thread and wojelah about whether it's snowing in another. That wasn't terribly valuable with only three people, but I think with a larger crowd of diverse interests, it would be more useful.
3) You can branch conversations off to other waves, you can reply privately to people on the wave, etc. Again, not terribly useful on such a small scale.
4) One of the most useful-appearing functions, the ability to collapse/hide a thread you're done with or not participating in, seems to be inactive. I am assuming it would only do it on my screen as opposed everyone on the wave's, but there's no real way to tell.
Clearly we need more data. So I'm going to set up a Wave sometime this weekend for more playing. I think you'll have to contact me or someone else already on the wave to be added but once you're on, it's in your Wave inbox and you can invite people, leave it, whatever you want.
Organizational poll under the cut. I will assume if you're answering, you're interested in waving.
Note: I had this Great Idea that I would just do a vague timezone adjustment and see where we could fit the most people in a four-hour gap of time, but that involves doing math so...I'm EST. If you are in another timezone and answering the poll, answer in your own timezone but drop me a comment and tell me which one that is and, if you know it, which direction and how many hours it is off from EST. (If you don't know, no worries - I can find it.) But yes. Answer in your timezone and then tell me what timezone you are IN. Because I thought it was on the profile pages and that may have been an error.
Poll Google Wave Chat
1) You type in real-time, like the old ICQ. So it's occasionally necessary to think before you start instead of just thinking before you hit done. :P
2) Wave stacks conversations, so I could be chatting with shetiger about Criminal Minds in one thread and wojelah about whether it's snowing in another. That wasn't terribly valuable with only three people, but I think with a larger crowd of diverse interests, it would be more useful.
3) You can branch conversations off to other waves, you can reply privately to people on the wave, etc. Again, not terribly useful on such a small scale.
4) One of the most useful-appearing functions, the ability to collapse/hide a thread you're done with or not participating in, seems to be inactive. I am assuming it would only do it on my screen as opposed everyone on the wave's, but there's no real way to tell.
Clearly we need more data. So I'm going to set up a Wave sometime this weekend for more playing. I think you'll have to contact me or someone else already on the wave to be added but once you're on, it's in your Wave inbox and you can invite people, leave it, whatever you want.
Organizational poll under the cut. I will assume if you're answering, you're interested in waving.
Note: I had this Great Idea that I would just do a vague timezone adjustment and see where we could fit the most people in a four-hour gap of time, but that involves doing math so...I'm EST. If you are in another timezone and answering the poll, answer in your own timezone but drop me a comment and tell me which one that is and, if you know it, which direction and how many hours it is off from EST. (If you don't know, no worries - I can find it.) But yes. Answer in your timezone and then tell me what timezone you are IN. Because I thought it was on the profile pages and that may have been an error.
Poll Google Wave Chat