Last night, I was greeted in my gmail inbox that I have a invite to Google newest project, Google Wave. Immediately clicked the link and was transported to the magical land that is Google Wave. I should note that it was 5 in the morning and nobody was on at the time. So I set up my profile and read the "Welcome to Google Wave" wave. The wave included some videos to watch like how to start a wave, replying to a wave, replaying the wave etc. After that, i install some extensions like Accuweather and Conference. You can also adds bots like- Bit.ly - shortens URLS
- Flippy - reversed any text that type in.
- Bloggy - Post waves in your blogger
- Nokar - It can change your text to pirate speak, look up tweets and more
After about a few hours on the wave, I have to say it not bad. Even though it in preview, still needs some work. For instance, it gets quite laggy when multiple people are typing at once or when someone adds a picture. *cough* me *cough*. Our Official AGE wave had over 200 replies. That when it started to get bogged down with lag. Once I added a picture for fun, my firefox browser decide to slow way down. It was eating up a lot of CPU. Luckily starting a new wave solved the problem. Quickly trashed the Official AGE wave. Another nit pick is scrolling thru a wave takes a bit of time. It not smooth as compared to scrolling down a website. On wave it tends to lag behind a bit. When clicking the playback button, the wave doesn't start playing. You have to manually click on the next frame button to advance the history of the wave. I hate that! I want it to play it normally like watching a video. Can't add groups of people to a wave. Have to add each person separately.
Right now I can see wave be helpful with light communication. Once many people join in on the conversation, it will lag depending on your computer.
Right now I give it a C.
Number of times I said wave in this blog: 21
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