Re: Re: Google Wave?

2010-03-13 Thread Ralph Mack
On 2:59 PM, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > Benjamin Scott wrote: >> It sounds to me like that would enable Wave to be used as a >> collaborative whiteboard, which makes perfect sense to me. > > e.g. mind mapping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map > > - Jim Van Zand Yes, what I have in mi

Re: Google Wave?

2010-03-13 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
>> It sounds to me like that would enable Wave to be used as a >> collaborative whiteboard, which makes perfect sense to me. >e.g. mind mapping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map There was (and I assume is) an active discussion group around merging mind-mapping with Wave functionality, usuall

Re: Google Wave?

2010-03-13 Thread James R. Van Zandt
On 2:59 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: >Here's what I learned about Google Wave tonight: Ralph Mack wrote: > In all cases, the thing that really stymied us was the inability to make > useful pictures. > > If somebody wanted to make Wave useful, they would develop a col

Re: Re: Google Wave?

2010-03-10 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Ralph Mack wrote: > Thanks for that article, Ben. You're welcome. Thanks for your reply! :) > If somebody wanted to make Wave useful, they would develop a collaborative > picture editor for Wave with the following general model: ... > Thoughts? It sounds t

Re: Re: Google Wave?

2010-03-10 Thread Ralph Mack
On 2:59 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: >Here's what I learned about Google Wave tonight: Thanks for that article, Ben. I just wanted to add my own observations. I attempted to use Wave to do something real in a few different contexts: 1. Virtual table-top role-playing 2. Virtual committ

Re: Fixing homogeneous, faceless avatars (was: Google Wave?)

2010-03-10 Thread John Abreau
A similar tool is at gravatar.com. See my test page at http://blu.org/grav.php On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Benjamin Scott writes: >> >>   Here's what I learned about Google Wave tonight: > [...] >> BASIC INTERFACE >

Fixing homogeneous, faceless avatars (was: Google Wave?)

2010-03-09 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott writes: > > Here's what I learned about Google Wave tonight: [...] > BASIC INTERFACE [...] > Contacts list. Mine appeared to default to people from my Gmail > contacts who had Google user accounts with Wave access. It picks up > the user icons ("

Re: Google Wave?

2010-03-09 Thread Alan Johnson
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > > ... a large group > > of people could collaborate on a single document in real time > > That might work. I'm not sure how well it would lend itself to a > large, structured document, though. No real outline/heading system, > no abil

Re: Google Wave?

2010-03-09 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Alan Johnson wrote: > One other thing Wave is clearly valueable for is getting geeks to talk about > google.  =) That thought occurred to me, too. No joke. Back when there was much speculation that Colin Powell might run for president but the man himself seem

Re: Google Wave?

2010-03-09 Thread Alan Johnson
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > APPLICATIONS OF THE TECHNOLOGY > ... > One suggestion was that it might be good for a Q&A or focus group > type of thing, where everyone starts off on the same thing, but > discussion quickly fractures into a number of smaller groups work

Re: Google Wave?

2010-03-09 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
7;s almost exactly like the > Greasemonkey script "Animate Changes" for MediaWiki, except the > controls actually work most of the time for Google Wave.) At any > given step, you can click a button to restore that state. > One issue that I found with the "Playback" button was th

Re: Google Wave?

2010-03-08 Thread Benjamin Scott
Here's what I learned about Google Wave tonight: GENERAL BEHAVIOR Google has implemented some common GUI concepts in JavaScript/AJAX. Things (like your folder list, your contact list, and Waves) appear in what are basically "windows" drawn on the web page canvas. Clicki

Re: Google Wave?

2010-03-08 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
>We've got like, 6 of us in the same wave. It's.. My brain >hurts... To be fair, I also think that Wave does take a bit of "getting used to it". It is not meant to be like email, where someone types something and someone else "replies". It is more "Wiki-like", where you interject something

Re: Google Wave?

2010-03-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: > I have had a Google Wave account for some time through a company that I > work with. > > I have found it almost useless, since it does not interact well with > regular email, and since you have to be online t

Re: Google Wave?

2010-03-08 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
I have had a Google Wave account for some time through a company that I work with. I have found it almost useless, since it does not interact well with regular email, and since you have to be online to really use it. Also, unlike some other Google products that had useful real functionality even

Google Wave?

2010-03-08 Thread Benjamin Scott
Hey, anyone hanging out bored right now (Mon 8 March 2010 at 8 PM EST), and who has a Google Wave account, email me (dragonh...@gmail.com). I'm here at SLUG (Durham meeting) and we're trying to figure out what Google Wave is good for. If anything. Or, if you don't have a Wave a

[GNHLUG] Seacoast/UNH/Durham/SLUG - Mon 8 Mar - Google Wave

2010-03-08 Thread Benjamin Scott
What : Google Wave Date : Mon 8 March 2010 Time : 7 PM to 9 PM Where: Room 301, Morse Hall, UNH, Durham, NH "Google Wave is an online software application product of Google, described as ... a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, in