In a blog post today Google pulled the plug on their “never quite caught on” web based collaboration tool named Google Wave. Originally introduced in May 2009 as the hoped for successor to email – it touted features such as real time collaboration and multiple revision of documents. Wave gradually succumbed to what appeared to [...]
Users of Google Wave, the much hyped collaborative “replacement” for email, will rejoice that they finally are able to remove other users from Wave’s. Prior to this new functionality if you added a user by mistake to a Google Wave you had no way to remove them (?!). Now you can access the “remove” button [...]
I just noticed that Google Wave has received what seems to be a long overdue feature. The ability to hide all those inline replies which can be made to a Wave and tend to also make it look very cluttered. Previously you’d have to direct Wave participants to make comments either in a separate blip [...]
This morning (actually Wednesday evening – but I just noticed it this morning) Google Wave went live with a new feature that allows for notification of new activity in waves you are participating in. The feature is activated via your inbox and will send an email based on a timeline (immediate, hourly, daily, never) that [...]
Google today announced another social sharing site. This is going to be a feature launched from within Gmail as a label called “Buzz” directly under the Inbox label on the left side of your screen. Google is looking to compete with both Facebook and Twitter in the currently hot area of status updates and sharing [...]
