Posts Tagged ‘Google Wave’

Google Wave for Apps Premier and Domains

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

I meant to post something up about this the other day… it’s just a quick post about Google making Wave available for Google Apps Premier and Apps for Domains customers.

If your Google Apps running on your domain, you can add Wave by going to your admin control panel, clicking ‘Add more services’, finding Wave then clicking ‘Add it now’.

What’s more you can give your Apps users a nice friendly URL for Wave, for example ‘wave.mydomain.com’ in the same way as the other Google Apps.   Simply create a CNAME for ‘wave’ in your domain DNS records, then from Admin console, go to the Google Wave Settings page and click the ‘Change URL’ link.  Enter in your details and you’re away.  (More detailed instructions are available from Google!)

Now if only anyone else I knew used it!

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Google Wave

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

google-wave

I was just reading a thread about Google Wave on Seloc where someone posted this pic – seems pretty accurate to me so far!

There are clearly some very clever ideas in Wave, and I can see some of them being very useful… but will it ever replace email?  Not sure to be honest… whilst email is old tech, its strength is that everyone on the internet has an email address, and probably knows how to use it to send and receive messages.  Will Wave ever be that ubiquitous?

Giving away the server component is probably a good start, and I guess embedding it into GMail would probably help too.  But even with a free server component, how may clients will there be?  Will people want to check their email and their waves?  I have to admit when I first looked at Wave I wondered if I could set it up to send me an email alert when there was an update… then realised that was probably missing Google’s point :)

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