March 2010
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
8h 23m
English
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Anecdotal Use Case: Using Google Wave for Live Waving
The following anecdotal use case is by David Mark Byttow, a software engineer at Google and member of the Google Wave team:
One of my favorite use cases for Google Wave is live waving. Live waving is not to be confused with live blogging, which is essentially writing about an event while attending it with the purpose of posting it on one’s blog (which in reality is not very “live”). Live-waving is similar, except that observations are added directly into a wave in real time, skipping the publishing step altogether and making the process actually live.
In this model, participants in a wave can watch as the event unfolds and even participate with their own blips. Moreover, event goers can collaboratively live-wave together, perhaps by correcting each other’s blips or by answering other participants’ questions.
Internally, we’ve used live waving as a tool to document events related to Google Wave for our team. This is especially important with the time-zone gap between our team offices in California and Sydney.
The live-wave model has various other uses as well, such as taking notes during conference sessions. A great example of this was at a Google internal conference held over one weekend where there were at least seven to eight sessions active at any one time. Just like any exciting conference, it was difficult for me to choose between interesting sessions occurring at the same time.
Fortunately, the entire conference decided to use ...
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