Situation 1: I write a blog and I am waiting for an important person's feedback. I check my blog - no comments. I check my gmail - no messages. I check my orkut - no scraps. I check my phone - no sms. I finally login to messenger and bingo, there is an offline waiting for me !
How great would it be if all these applications were linked to in one browser using some smart APIs ?? Solution: Google Wave
Situation 2: I am working on a project report - a project that involves multiple people from multiple teams across mutliple time zones. Each edit is marked with a tag but it is so difficult to keep track of conversations that explain the edits with the edits themselves.
How helpful would it be if I can converse and edit using the same tool and extract one or both at same or different times and send it to the same or different people ?! Solution: Google Wave
Situation 3: I upload pictures from a trip to picasa, a few to orkut and a couple to my blog. I suddenly realise that I have misspelt one of my foreign friend's names in the pictures.
How nice it would be if there were only one copy of the pictures and editing one would change it in all the different portals ?! Solution: Google Wave
Situation 4: I am typing an email and the spell checker is driving me crazy by just matching words to a dictionary. Too and to are both correct words but you are to kind makes no sense !
How smart it would be if my spell checker understood the context and used it for correction and for highlighting mistakes ? Solution: Google Wave
Situation 5: I am inviting people to go to a friend's wedding and I have 20 responses with a few of them saying ''I'll attend'', a few saying ''no'' and yet another few saying ''if time permits''
How practical it would be if there was an in-built gagdet to parse these emails and give me a list of attendees ? Solution: Google Wave
Before I start listing a multitude of situations, you should go and watch the Google Wave Preview at http://wave.google.com/ - its time well spent, seriously !
Thanks Sowmya,
ReplyDeleteI have been putting off the video for quite sometime now.. This post has convinced me that I must watch it.
:)
Deepa
Awaiting eagerly.. Even the igoogle is pretty decent..
ReplyDelete3 blogs in the weekend!!! I would suggest to write it and stagger the posts over the week.. For avasarakudukai readers who read only the first article there is a possibility of missing the others!!!
Anyway i like ur enthu.. keep rocking.. BTW if you can remove the word verification and the comments popping up in a new window it would be great !!!
@Deepa
ReplyDeleteI had been postponing it for quite a while too but y'day I had 2 of those situations I describe in the blog, so decided to take a break and watch the video :)
@Bharath
I did want to stagger the posts and I had them 'scheduled' but when I made changes to the content, I 'published' them by mistake...rolling eyes...
I did remove the comment pop-up a while ago but it created havoc with my template....let me see what happens this time !
Disabled word verification
Thanks to both of you for ur enthu in writing comments, motivates me to write :)
Google wave now requires invite to sign in ...
ReplyDeleteWill you be willing to provide an invite for me at gokul.bits@gmail.com ?
Thanks and btw.. Your posts on Masters in Germany are very useful ..
@Gokul
ReplyDeleteSorry, too many requests and too few invites at the moment....maybe later. And am glad you find the posts about Germany useful.