Comments on: Review of Google Wave as a scholarly HTML editor

By: Julia Anderson

Julia Anderson — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:18:21 +0000

This is a great post. I have heard great things about Google Wave. Now is the time for me to test it’s functions and see for myself!:)

By: Lars Tong StrÃ¶mberg

Lars Tong StrÃ¶mberg — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:06:42 +0000

Interesting point of views.

As for myself, I have seen Wave mostly as a mail tool and have waited for Google to get serious about it and take it beyond preview. Wondering if issues like the ones you mention are what they are working on to make it ready for a full launch (and then convert Gmail to Wave too)??

Open Office indeed in need of a remake.

By: Pavan K

Pavan K — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:48:37 +0000

Hi Jose,

I read this a while ago and have to say nicely written. Also good point about Open Office being left behind but if and when Wave starts to reach a mass market will office have any chance to catch up?

I saw a Scobleizer presentation on an Adobe collaborative suite solution, but no integration of said features in (for example) In Design. What was their solution called? Surely they are well placed to disrupt things.

Arjun – interesting you mention SharePoint and it’s cost. We have yet to see a migration to open web based solutions. Also interesting John mentions skype scaling only now but what will increase adoption of wave and who will be the early / late mass market? People who want to collaborate professionally and edit documents live, but for free? Who are they? SME’s? Schools?

Last point – I disagree with one point about Design not adding value. Design is everything, so InDesign adds immense value in the ability to manipulate a document, and Acrobat Pro is sufficient in commenting on a beautifully presented pdf document. I am happy with Adobe and it was worth every penny. I will never use Microsoft Word again (if I can help it) and really hope Open Office catch up quick or someone else will.

By: John Michael

John Michael — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:12:44 +0000

This was an interesting article, and I agree with most of what you said. It’ll be awhile before wave becomes mainstream (if it does at all). Skype is just starting to get widely adapted, but that’s just because many computers didn’t come with a mic or even a webcam, but now, most laptops come with both of those.

From an academic prospective, I don’t know why anyone would use Google Wave to edit a document though.

By: Writing Papers in Google Wave | The Productive Student

Writing Papers in Google Wave | The Productive Student — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:13:04 +0000

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By: Arjun Muralidharan

Arjun Muralidharan — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:44:16 +0000

While I would embrace better tools for the “layman” scholar to enhance collaboration, I still prefer rather low-tech mtehods: A good versioning system and plain latex flatfiles.

The idea of pool-writing papers with wave is probably askew from wave’s initial purpose, and while the concept is interesting – I think there is space for a dedicated tool in this area.

We use Microsoft Sharepoint at school and it is – I must admit – the best collobaroation software I have seen. It’s versioning and document management are extremely sophisticated.

But again, it’s not free, and since we scholars don’t tend to swim in money…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:22:18 +0000

One quick update:
From Ian Mulvany, who went to who went to the talks Larks and Stephanie gave in EU:
http://www.partiallyattended.com/2009/10/notes-from-google-wave-london-roadshow.html
“They are working on wave gardening, where you can merge, split, concatenate, and generally de-threat the blips in a wave. This is going to be awesome of they can get both the protocol and UX right.”

This is really good news!

By: ben

ben — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:32:57 +0000

I’ve actually been thinking about academic writing on wave too. I think what’s needed is a decent bibtex implementation, but that’s fairly difficult to do right now. Hopefully wave will improve to make this kind of writing easier, as it offers a lot of advantages for collaboration.