70+ uses for Google Wave
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As many people are still trying to understand what all the hype on Google Wave is about, Wave users made their own list of possible uses for it. If you have a wave account, you can check the original list on Google Wave.
Documented uses of Google Wave
- Brainstorming Uses For Wave
- Email Replacement
- IM Replacement
- Live Forums
- Private Notes
- Role Playing Games (Text-Only or with Gadgets)
- Collaborative Book Writing (several authors writing different characters/sections in a novel/book)
- Collaborative Songwriting, Lyric Writing, Screenplays, (rhyme, thesaurus dictionary bot needed)
- Crowd-Sourced Language Proof Editing and Expert Fact Check for Fiction and Manuals
- Microblogging (Tweety and Regular Wave) (Rich microblogging as you can include files, rich formatting & have comments?)
- Blogging (With live comments and collaboration)
- Content/UI Aggregation (All your content and interfaces in one place)
- Live Meeting/Lecture Notes
- Customer Support/Relations (via Robot or live support), with collaborative FAQ as main content.
- Social Networking
- Bug Tracking
- Running and managing learning activities (Teachers)
- Auctions (listing and bidding maybe paying)
- Classifieds (listings and discussion)
- Personal Information Management (To Do Lists, Calendars, Contact Cards, etc)
- Robot Conversations
- Media Sharing (Photo galeries, YouTube, etc.)
- Live Private Or Public Wikis
- Collaborative Whiteboard
- Ticketing System (For Debuging And Tech Support)
- Coding/Pair Programming/Code Reviews (with ksyntaxy robot or gadgets)
- Live Commenting Systems (for YouTube and such)
- Live Suggestion Boxes
- Flame Wars (Steph wasn’t excited about this one in the google i/o video)
- All forms of Debates
- Sports/Event Commentary
- Planning Events, Live Invitations/Meeting Requests
- Distance Learning/Meetings (Without the telepresence)
- Agenda Management
- Online Card Games like Poker (with a gadget)
- Session Discussions During Conventions - better than Tweets with hash tags
- Interactive glossary/encyclopedia
- School team projects (Writing report together, etc)
- Dynamic Newsletters (Could use Google Groups for this)
- Brainstorming
- Project planning/management
- Gaming logs for multiplayer and single player games (will need some sort of bot to post to a wave)
- Research Notes
- Board game implementations (will need dice bots, card bots and some way of representing the board)
- Wargame implementation (very similar to the one above, but further complicated by the fact that wargames would need more complex movement and line of sight implementations)
- On-the fly newsroom TELEPROMPTER (closed captioning) editing during live news broadcasts
- College/Graduate/Law School: Collaborative study group
- Last minute updates for emergency services
- Community Update Services (Non-Emergency)
- A way to discuss and create recipes
- A wave for designing GUIs (would need some sort of widget for fast prototyping)
- Artists interacting with their fans.
- Agencies introducing a product.
- Journalists constructing an article, while interacting with readers.
- Online Quiz games
- Collaborative graphic design (with client or partner)
- Spam (it’s going to happen…unfortunately)
- Collaborative analysis of chess games (archived games or real-time)
- Genealogy collaboration
- Tax Audit Collaboration
- Remote team management (business, managing employees, sales people)
- Online Town Squares to talk about current events
- Interactive Wish Lists (With Links and Pictures)
- Police manhunt
- Shopping/Grocery List
- Interactive Greeting Cards
- Education: real time feedback of student work from teacher or bot
- Travel Itinerary
- VOIP-based voice conferencing tied to a wave so you can talk real-time as you collaborate. Recording or adding audio to a wave is a different concept.
- Supervising PhD Thesis and dissertations
- Publishing and monitoring best prices
- Online press conferences
- Writing mathematics documents - requires native support for MathML and LaTeX-like dialects for inline/displayed equations and symbols [This is relatively simple to add on the server-side but would be a total game-changer for academic users. Also, requires a well thought out UI to allow code and WYSIWYG and/or handwriting of symbols]
- Lifestreaming (Special robots could be used for this)
- Intra-office memos (Vacation Requests,etc)
- Data collection for sociology and psychology using quantitative and qualitative research methods (example: Q methodology)
- Handling exceptions to structured business processes (for example Purchase to pay)
- Identifying and following up actions from balanced scoredcards/performance management solutions
