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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1. Offline News Aggregator – January 2010 Ideas
2. Google Docs Application – January 2010 Ideas
3. Social Subway – January 2010 Ideas