Google wave has been in limited preview for quite a few days. Recently the Google Wave team has conducted an online survey to generate users’ feedback on this new ‘innovative’ software.
For the first three things that users like the most about Google wave, the wave concept, collaboration ability and extendibility topped the list. Many respondents say that the concept of a wave being a new online tool for real-time communication and collaboration really excites people, and no other existing software at the moment can serve the same need. The brilliant perspective that it will one day elaborate to become the most crucial tool used in communication and cooperated work is very inspiring.
For the three main issues with Google Wave question, inefficiency of the invitation scheme is reported to be the top concern. Because of this critical barrier, friends, relatives and colleagues are not invited to this community, who-most likely-are persons users are going to use this software to communicate to. This actually makes the invitation to these current users pointless. Another concern is that it is currently not integrating well enough with those existing communication tools. Also users are complaining that the software is running too slowly. The team is setting out their steps trying to minimize and eliminate all these defects. Hopefully they will manage to succeed later on.
Well, these are also how I feel about the Google wave at the moment…
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googlewave have been a failure till now la=X This few days i have been waving to people... Then i realised, the user interface is so...non-user friendly....
ReplyDeleteThey expect only geeks to use it meh? wth...
Byron, instead of 'waving' to people, you should 'create' a wave. Think of it like creating discussion thread instead of sending a friend request. If the topic is interesting, the thread (the "wave" in this case) will grow.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree that wave growth mechanism (adding/inviting) is not as efficient as FB.