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Google Wave Now Open To All

Posted by timothy on from the and-do-you-care dept.

tonyfugere writes "After a year of testing by invitation only, Google Wave has been opened to the public. From what I have seen, it looks like it could be beneficial for documenting brainstorming sessions beyond simple instant messaging protocols." (Google Wave is "also great for entertaining the masses," says tonyfugere, who links to the slightly NSFW demonstration below.)

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  1. The link you actually care about by BitZtream · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://wave.google.com/

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  2. People are using it? by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wow, I have not heard about Wave in a while...I thought it had been lost in the bin of Forgotten Google Projects (FGPs).

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  3. My best fit for Wave; by B5_geek · · Score: 5, Interesting

    IMHO, the best niche that Wave can fill is by replacing message boards. By merging the IRC/Email/newsgroup/BBS concept it makes it perfect for following threads of conversations, starting new discussions, replying privately to one or two individuals, embedding images and/or videos.

    I would gladly donate my left kidney if all my favorite forums/groups switched over to Wave.

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    1. Re:My best fit for Wave; by natehoy · · Score: 5, Funny

      A few of mine tried. After a couple hundred messages, you have to type each character and wait a second or two before you can type the next one.

      I finally gave up when it started taking me more than a minute to type a short sentence. I started longing for the incredible speed of BBSes and my old 300-baud modem.

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    2. Re:My best fit for Wave; by D+Ninja · · Score: 5, Funny

      Some friends and I have used Wave for a LOST discussion group every week, and it's pretty bad by the end of each episode

      The Wave or the show?

  4. Surf's Up! by MarbleMunkey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seriously, though, I consider myself a reasonably bright software programmer, and I'm still unsure exactly what it is I'm supposed to be using Goole Wave for. Maybe I just don't communicate with enough people via electronic means...

    1. Re:Surf's Up! by John+Hasler · · Score: 5, Funny

      > I'm still unsure exactly what it is I'm supposed to be using Google Wave
      > for.

      The video makes that quite clear: creating a hideous garbled mess of crap.

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  5. To quote Triumph by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Shhh, shhh, shhh, listen, listen closely, hear that? It's the sound of nobody giving a shit!"

  6. WTF? by chill · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Someone explain to my why whomever it was felt it was okay to transcribe half the curse words in the English language, but had to leave out "God Damn"?

    Fuck him like a bitch is okay.
    Mutherfuckaaa is okay.
    All the rest is okay, but "God Damn" is censored?

    Pussies.

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