My use of Wave has really taken off with the discovery of the public section. It isn’t built into the current version but you can create public waves by adding the public contact. Then you can search though the public waves, by tags, by specifying ”in:public.” So now I’m a member of several anime Waves, a whole network of PlayStation themed waves and a writers wave. I’m not quite sure yet if Wave is going to replace public forums. In order for that to happen there needs to be a more effective grouping method. If you can group a series of waves together then yes, this is the next generation of the web forum. Now that I’ve used it for a few hours today I can say that Wave is going to be my primary direct communication tool when it goes public.
I’ve had detailed conversations with multiple people, while one person was responding to one part of the conversation I was replying to another. It was very exciting. I’ve created image galleries. Yet I’ve only just scratched the surface of the potential of the tool. Hell, just watching someone type in their message has changed the way text messages work. Now I can start writing my reply before their finished their comment. That idea alone makes my head hurt. I’ll take some screen shots in the next couple of days to show exactly what I’m doing with Wave.
I didn’t plan on only talking about Wave in this post… or for the next couple of days. But with my college stress coming down on me and homework unfinished… it really is the only positive thing I can think to write about. I’m going to write about a concept for a novel that’’s been sitting inside my head for a few weeks now about a complete technological reset of the world. Using Wave bought this idea up again. What if we can just say to everyone , “Stop what you’re doing… this is better!” And do that for transportation, getting information, receiving news, the method for getting television, ect. Well, I’ll go over it in more detail later. I need time to iron out the wrinkles in the concept before I can put it down in any sort of logical or concise way. I realize the brief description of the concept is an incoherent ramble.