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August 10, 2010

Tuesday, August 10, 2010 12:01 AM/EST

Save Google Wave Gets the Thumbs Up

Save Google Wave is noble, but it won't work. The people have already judged Wave and found it to be wanting, or at least too daunting.

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June 8, 2010

Tuesday, June 08, 2010 5:58 PM/EST

Google WaveThis Borrows from Twitter, Google Buzz

Google is making it easier for users to grab content from the Web into a wave. Users previously had to cut and paste Web info into a wave. WaveThis is a button, bookmarklet and Chrome extension that lets users launch a discussion in a wave directly from the site users want to share.

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March 5, 2010

Friday, March 05, 2010 7:44 AM/EST

Google Wave Eyes Network Effect with E-Mail Notifications

Google March 4 added the ability for users to receive e-mail notifications about new and updated waves in Wave users' inboxes, offering users more control for the real-time collaboration platform.

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February 3, 2010

Wednesday, February 03, 2010 10:48 AM/EST

Google Wave Gets Project Management Via Wrike.com

Wrike.com, which makes a well-regarded project management SAAS suite, Feb. 3 said it is now automatically syncing with Wave. No one will desert their IBM Lotus, Microsoft SharePoint or even Google Apps platforms yet, but Wave could be promising if Google and third-party collaborators such as Wrike.com continue to make Wave a valuable business tool.

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November 2, 2009

Monday, November 02, 2009 10:26 AM/EST

The Complete Guide to Google Wave: Free & Online

With Google Wave confounding some users, LifeHacker founder Gina Trapani collaborated with LifeHacker editor Adam Pash on a sort of beginner's guide to the platform. The Complete Guide to Google Wave is a comprehensive user manual.

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October 11, 2009

Sunday, October 11, 2009 12:01 AM/EST

The Swedish Chef Is Easier to Understand than Google Wave

Easiertounderstandthanwave.com lets users vote on whether Google Wave is easier to understand than the Swedish Chef, Sarah Palin, women and a whole bunch of other topics. It's worth 5 minutes of your time for a cheap laugh or two.

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October 1, 2009

Thursday, October 01, 2009 10:52 AM/EST

Google Wave Bids Ripped from eBay in Failed Pay-to-Play Move

So let me get this straight: People bid hundreds or even thousands of dollars for the chance to use software that will help them do instant messaging, social networking, and file sharing from one location? Unless you know a whole bunch of people who are already using Wave, and this is extremely unlikely except for Googlers, their friends and the digerati covering them, it makes absolutely no sense to pay to play for Wave.

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September 29, 2009

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:29 AM/EST

Google Offers Caveats, Teaser For Google Wave Preview

Google will make its Google Wave real-time collaboration platform available to 100,000 more people beginning tomorrow in what the company is calling an "extended preview." tomorrow's launch is big for Google in the sense that it has to be able to support the glut of new Wave users with its infrastructure. The users also have to have a comfortable waving experience, or the beta build won't blossom.

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August 30, 2009

Sunday, August 30, 2009 12:01 AM/EST

Google Apps' Rishi Chandra Hypes HTML 5, Google Wave

In case you've been living under a rock for the last year or so, Google is really, really excited about HTML 5. Why wouldn't Google be excited about HTML 5? Rishi Chandra said users can expect a two-way street when it comes to Google Apps and Wave, which is set to roll out for 100,000 users to test on Sept. 30. He took care to point out that Google Wave was a platform, while Google Apps is a suite of apps.

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July 30, 2009

Thursday, July 30, 2009 1:36 PM/EST

Google Wave: Promising, but Still Buggy

Google Wave co-creators Lars and Jens Rasmussen last night treated a small group of journalists to the Wave experience in the Wave sandbox live from Google's San Francisco office. I found the Wave experience promising, but buggy.

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