If the standing-room only attendance at Tuesday’s Create World session on Google Wave is anything to go by, there are people out there by the truckload champing at the bit to get their hands on Google Wave. Still in beta form, and still available by invitation only (you can ask to be [...]]]> Listen to the interview

If the standing-room only attendance at Tuesday’s Create World session on Google Wave is anything to go by, there are people out there by the truckload champing at the bit to get their hands on Google Wave. Still in beta form, and still available by invitation only (you can ask to be invited, but it might take a while to get a response), the hype about Wave is that it represents the next quantum leap forward in respect of online collaboration and information management. See for example the developer preview from Google:

But does it live up to the hype? And how difficult is it to use? And will it be sufficiently sexy and robust to drag our technophobic colleagues away from their insistence that collaboration is best handled by email, with all its detritus of archive boxes, and attachment folders full of multiple versions of misnamed, unordered files?

These are questions that Andrew Dekker, Stephen Viller and Aaron Tan (University of Queensland) have been investigating. In that process they have developed a particular Mac implementation of the system which they call CocoaWave, and which you can download and play with yourself (if you’re game!) …. Andrew & Stephen talk about it in this interview with Ian Green.

About Google Wave |  Read the Wave guide document

Find out all about CocoaWave