15. Translate Between Languages
Google Translate has been around for years, but when it comes to automatically translating between languages, software can be iffy. Google is presently working on a bot for the Wave called Rosie, but it hasn’t yet been released to the public. Fear not, however, as another developer has created a substitute that is just as good and still uses Google Translate.
To translate any email, simply add aunt-rosie@appspot.com to the Wave you’re editing. A tiny drop-down menu will then instantly be added to the message. Select the language you’d like and Aunt Rosie will go to work. Soon enough, you’ll have a new message in the wave with the translated text you requested. In our testing it worked rather well, but remember that it’s translating to the requested language. Aunt Rosie will detect which language it’s written in automatically.
16. Chat Room
Realtime collaboration is extremely vital for many companies and is especially important for individuals who telecommute for work. Some companies use chat rooms that will allow employees to communicate with each other in a real time space. A lot of the functionality of a chat room, however, can be replicated in Google Wave.
With Google Wave, chatters have the ability to send messages back and forth to each other in real time, but recipients can also backtrack to look at past messages, even if they weren’t online when the message was sent. The Playback function in Google Wave allows people to view a timeline of messaging history. But the ability to keep an indefinite log of chat history is a nice perk to using Google Wave as a chat room.
17. Customer Support for Companies
Good customer support is a must if you wish to stay in business. With many companies, users must dial in, stay on hold for an agent, get transferred to the appropriate agent, and so on. This communication might be convenient for some, but many people prefer the textual communication of email. If companies could start looking at the potential uses of Google Wave for customer support communication, then the whole market could effectively be changed for the better.
With Google Wave, support representatives could share information from the web, from a map, etc. right from the same application. Plus, support professionals could video or audio chat with clients, if that is demanded.
Of course, the biggest downfall for this sort of communication is that Google Wave isn’t quite “there” yet. This means that Google Wave users can send messages between each other, but not with outside email accounts like Gmail, Yahoo, or MSN. If users could submit support tickets using Google Wave, then corporate-customer communication could really change to become more efficient.
18. Take Notes
Google Docs is a great place to type documents, but if you want to keep everything in one place, Google Wave can help. Notes that are on a particular topic and contain multiple sections can be easily organized with Google Wave.
Google Wave features a good text editor that can be used to place bullet points, indentations and more into your notes. Then, when/if you need to share your notes, you can share them by sending other Wave users the notes, or by embedding them on a page for anyone to see.
19. Instant Messenger Replacement
Instant messaging is a great communication tool, but some may find it difficult to keep up with chat logs for future reference. You could potentially use Google Wave to keep up with all of your communications needs, even chats and the resulting logs. You are able to see the contacts who are online by looking at their profile picture. If there’s a green dot in the lower-left hand corner, then they’re currently in their Wave account. When you send a Wave to them, they’ll be able to see it appear instantly in their inbox. If they’re not online, they will get the message as soon as they log in.
Google Wave includes many of the same text formatting features as iChat, Adium, or other clients, but also includes things not found in instant messaging. Things like the ability to embed gadgets, games, and YouTube content. Plus, the ability to share files images without the need for pesky file transfer mechanisms that often don’t work well is a huge plus. When you want to refer to the logs, simply use the Playback function. The date and time is automatically included in every message in the Wave.
20. Video Chat
Video chatting from your web browser has been around for a while, and is available in your Gmail inbox, but just because you’re using Google Wave doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice video chatting. With a free extension, the Wave can do just as good a job as Gmail.
Start by opening Settings > Extension Settings and install the Video Chat Experience Extension. Next, create a Wave as you would normally, adding the newly installed extension to the Wave. When you enable this, you can add up to 6 people inside of a chat “round.” To join that chat, simply select a virtual seat around the table, and the chat begins. In addition to video chatting, you can also text chat using the input field above the video. The textual chat will display over top of the video while chatting. The video chat service and extension is provided by 6-rounds.com.
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January 22, 2010 at 10:40am
I am going to keep it simple. Remember when everyone thought twitter was stupid and useless
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January 20, 2010 at 12:29am
Clearly Google Wave is not for everyone. Just for folks who are willing to learn a new and unique way of sharing every type of digital media in one online venue - IN REAL TIME. Sounds like the writer of this comment: "Wave is a waste of time" - Submitted by rstites950 on Thu, 2010-01-14 04:54 - would be satisfied with chalk and a green chalkboard. Fine, if that is all you need, turn off the computer, man - your carbon footprint is too big already!! There is NO other apparent online product besides Google Wave that I am aware of that offers such a range of collaborative abilities at any price, let alone for FREE.
palenoue
January 19, 2010 at 1:21pm
I have little use for Wave right now. As others have commented, I already use other tools for these functions and training my friends and collaborators to use Wave would be too much work for too little return.
However, if they added a whiteboard where you could easily add graphics on the fly, along with layers that can be assigned for individual people involved in the online meeting, zoom in/out and pan around the board, then we would jump on it in a second!
And if Adobe added this feature and put in various options, such as importing a deck of cards and a shuffle function, it would be popular among gamers or bridge clubs where the members move to different cities/states/countries but still want to game together.
kwameshearrod
January 22, 2010 at 1:15pm
Your ideas for wave are pretty amazing and quite doable. There has to be a way you can package to thoughts to make them happen. If not perhaps you could use some assistance. While you have little use for wave right now I can defiantly see you finding a use for it in the future to develop the very ideas you spoke about. I also Read your profile: A very creative person who would like to find a job as game designer because there are so many games for the Mac and iPhone that, while very well made, aren't fun to play. Unfortunately, while I can create games in real life that people enjoy playing for years, I have no programming skills, which means no game company will hire me. I would like to say this. Steve Jobs was no programmer but we are writing on a website devoted to a company he built around an idea. If your ideas are as good as you say they are. I think we should talk more.
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January 19, 2010 at 12:22pm
And if so, chief2224 already points out, most enterprises will already have tools in place for colaboration, such as Outlook and the MS Office Suite including Office Communicator.
Your average Facebook user can already share comments, notes, and pictures. The only thing they're missing is filesharing and document colaboration. But I doubt your average Facebook user is going to need those tools.
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January 18, 2010 at 9:08pm
Google Wave is certainly a work in progress, as spfjr points out, but I can definitely see the potential for a tool such as this one. The problem for early adopters, like some of the people here, is that there simply isn't critical mass around the tool usage. Sure, Google Wave could change how I connect with my family around the world. But a.) getting them all to use Google and b.) teaching them how to use Google Wave is a huge challenge. I think the most immediate application for Wave is as a collaboration tool for small companies to use within the enterprise, as well as with vendors, clients, etc. Most large enterprises already have tools to do some or most of what Wave does. But for smaller companies without such solutions, Wave could deliver significant value with little to no cost. Overall, I'm eager to see how Wave develops.
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January 15, 2010 at 8:39pm
'Everyone in the same room'? Too funny - I'm in New Zealand, I have a sister in Ireland and a brother in HK, now should I pay around nzd$12,000 for flights to get us in the same room or should I use free Google Wave? hmmm let me think about that! Ohhh and of course I need to communicate with a client in Japanese although I don't speak a word of her language. Oh heck, now I need air fares as well as a translation service or perhaps I just need Google Wave, I wonder what that will cost me.
I'm male, blond and Irish so things have to be simple, Google Wave is exactly that and it didn't take 3 days to figure it out. Incidently here's a great Google Wave learning site http://waveconsultancyandtraining.com/ just about a one stop shop, except it's all free.
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rstites950
January 14, 2010 at 5:54am
I think this article is nothing more than a ssales pitch. Goggle wave does nothing special. I used it for about three days and found that unless everybody was on it all the time it provided to real benifit. Besides, I do not need nor do I want to colaborate all of the time. On any team, people have responsibilities and skills that do not require constant updateing and monitoring. If a project is that critical, you will be better served putting everybody in the same room.
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January 15, 2010 at 3:14pm
I had to create an account simply to reply to the sheer ignorance of rstites's comment.
First, you do your argument a great disservice by misspelling words that my 11-year-old brother could spell correctly. I pray that I never have a team leader who cannot spell "updating," let alone the product that are criticizing.
Second, this product is still in beta development. Of course, it's a sales pitch. The biggest problem I've seen with Wave, besides the lack of users, is the fact that I'm still figuring out what I can use it for. This article serves to inform readers of the different tools that are being developed for Wave, as well as the different ways in which people have found it to be useful. That being said, there are some uses on this list that I find better served with other tools (the task list, for example). But that doesn't negate the rest of the list, which I found to be rather informative.
Third, have you considered that perhaps other people have different needs than you? If you ran a business around the advent of email but found that it didn't serve your needs, does that necessarily mean that it is "a waste of time" for everyone else? You suggest "putting everybody in the same room" for critical projects. What an insightful idea! Why hadn't I thought of that? I work on such a community-source project, which has developers in England, South Africa, and various states in the US. This would've been the perfect solution to our location and time-zone problem.
tldr: Wave is still evolving, as are its uses. This list is a good summary of ways in which Wave might be useful to those who are open-minded and patient enough to give it a try.
