The main useful feature of Wave is the realtime collaborative editing, and the ability to be instantly alerted to any update to any wave you’re monitoring. There’s more, but there’s probably not much point for me to list all of the other features here. And I’m reluctant to try to convince other people to join, because it can be extremely addictive, and it’s still kinda annoyingly glitchy, and is still missing some important features.
If you’re not the sort of person who tries new things just for the sake of trying them, or if you didn’t get immediately excited about Wave when you first heard about it, or you don’t think you have any use for realtime collaborative editing, then you’re probably better off waiting until someone you know is using Wave for something specific that you want to join in on.
and yes, it can be used as a persistent, HTML form of IRC, where you can leave or resume a conversation at any time, or return to an old branch of the conversation and visually branch it off, or even have multiple branches running simultaneously, in separate parts of the wave, rather than the different threads constantly overlapping, which always ends up happening in IRC.
The main useful feature of Wave is the realtime collaborative editing, and the ability to be instantly alerted to any update to any wave you’re monitoring. There’s more, but there’s probably not much point for me to list all of the other features here. And I’m reluctant to try to convince other people to join, because it can be extremely addictive, and it’s still kinda annoyingly glitchy, and is still missing some important features.
If you’re not the sort of person who tries new things just for the sake of trying them, or if you didn’t get immediately excited about Wave when you first heard about it, or you don’t think you have any use for realtime collaborative editing, then you’re probably better off waiting until someone you know is using Wave for something specific that you want to join in on.
and yes, it can be used as a persistent, HTML form of IRC, where you can leave or resume a conversation at any time, or return to an old branch of the conversation and visually branch it off, or even have multiple branches running simultaneously, in separate parts of the wave, rather than the different threads constantly overlapping, which always ends up happening in IRC.