This week, the reading for my Social Media for PR class tackled the mysterious Google Wave. After reading about all of its useful features, like email, IM, WebChat, message boards, and wiki, I decided to take a stab at it.
I didn't slice very deep, barely did I even make it to correctly uploading a photo.. Wave is confusing to a new user. Well, that's to be expected, I remember feeling completely lost with the new concept of Twitter. Part of the problem is the "lonely experience" I felt because I had only two contacts. Once I dived into reading more about Google Wave, the more I realized it is not so different from the technologies I have already been exposed to, it just surprising to see it all wrapped up in one.
I decided the wiki-feature of Wave is something very different. If I make a "wave" (the equivalent to an email), my document can be edited by the people I send it to. Weird? In my opinion, I would see that as a huge problem because how could the document be trusted if it was sent to a large quantity of people. For instance, say Wave took part as an internal email system for a corporation and was used to communicate about business meetings, events, and other corporate business, one individual could alter a date or time- which could be annoying.
On the other hand, I look at this for class projects and assignments as a great tool. If you are in a group with Snobby Sally or Cranky Chris, you might have zero initiative or ambition to ever actually meet with them, but the project has to get done somehow. With Wave, you can upload a document and send it to the unfortunate group members and work collaboratively on it (you can even use the IM to chat about your ideas/suggestions while editing the document).
Is Google Wave a hit or miss? I'm not sure it's effect yet because not everyone has access to it. From reading a few articles from class, I see it MIGHT have some potential in the future.
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As of right now, i would say Google wave looks like a miss. This could be because the public does not yet have access to it. As of right now, i don't really see many people making use of it. It seems complicated and overwhelming. I personally feel that it would greatly benefit any user. It has everything one needs rapped into one pretty package. Users can use it for a multitude of things. With this technology, many other social media sites would go under. If many people are using Google wave then they don't need all that other stuff. I see this as kind of a twitter evolution. No one used it in the beginning, but now it's huge! I believe that one day, maybe a year or two after it is released to the public, it will be as big as facebook and twitter.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I have been thinking about it a little more and I don't even really see it being a huge hit like Facebook or Twitter..because it really has no "fun" appeal. You can't upload pictures, you can't join group, make events with the ease of Facebook..Too, on Twitter, you can at least change your background!...I don't know, I suppose now that I have talked to a few people here at my internship, they are also confused at the point of it. Perhaps if Facebook ever fizzles out, maybe Wave will have a chance?
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