Swell Wave – January 2010 Ideas
The twelfth idea for my 365 social ideas is about Google Wave: Create a wave actor (a robot), that will create a nice, static, easily-printable, exportable view of the wave in it’s current state. Swell Waves are perfect, stable waves – and Swell Wave is thus a stable (but static) version of Google Wave
Google Wave is actually really nice. It is wonderful for collaborations and for chatting many persons. E.g. starting with a document like a brief, a concept or a pitch pasted into the wave, and then just expand and comment on everything a really delve into those interesting parts, trash-talk the bad parts, point out what needs to be clarified, and so on. But, it is very heavy, it does not print very well and you cannot in an easy way share the result with someone else (e.g. convert it to a pdf or link to a certain version of it).
If you created a robot, that when invited into a wave, and asked about it would provide you with a secure link to a static, flat version of the current contents of the wave. From this link, you should be able to easily share it with others, download as pdf and so on.
Why?
Google Wave is too heavy for many users – especially with very large waves where the collaborative, synergetic, creative juices really are flowing. Many times I’ve wanted to copy the current contents of a wave to a Word-document to store it in a more accessible way, but have so far managed to fight the urge. With a Swell Wave, this is now possible.
What’s next?
Do with this idea whatever you like – expand, implement, trash or forget. Just remember, that if you use it in anyway make sure to attribute me according to the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, that all these 365 Social Ideas are published under.
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Category: API, Google Wave, January 2010 Ideas 5 comments »
January 13th, 2010 at 09:56
“Publish Wave” might be just that: https://wave.google.com/wave/?pli=1#restored:search:in%253Ainbox+publish,restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252BkMELl-hHQ
January 13th, 2010 at 12:37
“You are not a participant in this wave.”
But if it is a static html-version of the wave easily shareable even to non-wavers, it might be what I’m talking about. :)
January 14th, 2010 at 03:44
i’ll invite you, give me your @googlewave.com pls…and it’s not, it’s more ambitious
January 14th, 2010 at 12:14
You’re invited to the wave! Taking a closer look, it might not be overly ambitious, I got the link from @tveskov, he’s looking for ways to publish @boelgendk ;-)
January 14th, 2010 at 16:54
Hi,
I have had much the same idea. But when I tried to implemnt it. And it will be a really usefull feature. When I looked at the codes i was getting, i only got bold and colering informations. I did not get bullets and headlines markup, which is real interesting.
Daniel