Google Wave at conferences
Twitter is used with increasing frequency at conferences to allow conversations between attendees and with non attendees. But it is difficult to summarize and organize information from conferences with only 140 characters at a time. And it isn’t a good way to do it in an efficient collaborative effort.
Here is an example of how Google Wave was used in an experiment at a conference to “crowd source” writeup summaries of the conference. They quite impressively organized a page with links to individual Waves which were put together live by attendees. They also used it for feedback about the conference.
Because you can see each change made in Wave the instant it happens, it makes collaboration much more efficient.
I still have Wave invites, contact me if you would like to give it a try.
Google Wave invites (take 2)
Note: I posted this earlier this morning but received requests from many who likely don’t regularly read the blog. See updated post below.
I have written a bit about Google Wave, which is now open to a limited number of people.
I have a few invites that I can give out, if you would like one and are a reader of the blog send me an email with your full name and some sort of proof (website with your name or other) that you work in a health related field and I will add you to the list. The reason I am asking for this is because I want to encourage exploration of health related uses for Wave.
If you are already on Wave, add me to your contacts at ace0cc@googlewave.com and send me a message.
In the coming weeks I will post more about the potential of Wave for social collaboration on nutrition and health related projects.
Google Wave launches tomorrow
I’ve commented a few times on Google Wave, which launches tomorrow to the first 100,000 who signed up.
Stay tuned for screencasts and comments as I explore the service.
I also plan on organizing nutrition related Waves (groups) to experiment on how it might be be useful for various projects.
Google Wave coming in 30 days
Google Wave, announced earlier this summer, is launching to the first 100,000 people who have signed up, on September 30.
Sign up here if you haven’t yet. I am particularly excited at the potential it offers for social collaboration and the automated tools that will make writing and organization easier.
Proof of concept: Igor the Google Wave reference manager robot
Google Wave is still a few months away for non developers, but already a bot, Igor, can manage a reference list and extract citations from PubMed, Connotea and CiteULike. All you have to do is type (cite topic, author, journal, etc) and it will find the reference you want, add it to a list, and numerically cite it in your text. To fully appreciate how cool this is, check out the video at:
http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2009/07/igor_a_google_wave_robot_to_ma.html
No doubt there will be many bots like this to choose when Wave is publicly available.
Waving in the new form of online communication
I’ve been watching for good resources to describe the potential use for the upcoming Google Wave, coming “later this year,” for scientists.
The best I have found, linking to other perspectives, courtesy Björn Brembs: http://bjoern.brembs.net/news.php?item.521.3
A combination of microblog/blog/wiki/email/instant messenger and more, it will no doubt be a great tool to centralize incoming and control outogoing information, while facilitating collaborations.
Opera Unite and Social Collaboration
Opera Unite was launched 10 days ago, and offers an alternative to cloud services, which host intellectual property on their servers. It works within the Opera browser, which historically has been innovative software.
Unite allows for local sharing with contacts instead of uploading to a server. This can produce easy project collaboration by sharing a specified folder, with other options to open a chat room, a place for leaving notes, or even user your computer as a server. Other applications will be developed but extras are not are currently available.
Disadvantages include that you need the opera browser installed and the Unite service to be running to be sharing your files, and file modification is not live- they must be edited individually then shared.
Video instructions:
-
-
-
Join the Nutrition 2.0 FriendFeed room to further discuss these topics: http://friendfeed.com/nutrition20 -
-
-
Join the Nutrition 2.0 FriendFeed room to further discuss these topics: http://friendfeed.com/nutrition20 -