March 2010
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
8h 23m
English
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Sample Use Case: Using Google Wave to Plan a Wedding
Carlos and Jennifer, who are engaged to be married in a year, have decided to use Google Wave (the product) to help plan their wedding. Although the two of them are from Madison, Wisconsin, Jennifer is currently finishing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia, meaning that they will need to plan most of the wedding while Jennifer is away.
Since most of their family and members of the wedding party will be traveling to Madison for the wedding, the first thing that Carlos does is set up a wave to discuss logistics for the rehearsal dinner, wedding ceremony, and reception. After creating a new Google Wave group account that includes family members and friends, Carlos adds the group and posts a few questions to the participants.
Noting that several of his and Jennifer’s friends are on a popular social network, Carlos has used their social network accounts in the wave group account (this is possible because the social network is a wave provider itself). Jennifer proceeds to add several gadgets to the wave, including a new “Yes-No-Maybe” gadget that polls the participants on whether they will be attending the rehearsal dinner. A mapping gadget provides a dynamic Google Map that shows the respective location of each participant, and it is synchronized with the Yes-No-Maybe gadget to show each person’s decision as a color-coded pushpin. After several weeks, Carlos, Jennifer, and the other participants can easily ascertain ...
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