Healthcare on Google Wave

by Phil Baumann on October 10, 2009

in Google Wave

Google Wave is one of the latest products to be rolling out of the never-ending stream of real-time social media technologies. I’ve been experimenting with Wave for a little over a week and still have much to learn.

Wave may be an impressive collaboration platform for small groups but it is not a terribly great public social medium – at least not just in its present form. If developers can build filtering and other utilities on top of Wave’s API, then the protocol may eventually empower new kinds of social media.

Here’s a little test I’m conducting. Below is list of several healthcare people on Google Wave initiated by @ahier. If you have a Google Wave account, you will be able to see the embed. If you don’t have one, you’re out of luck. :( Sorry! But bookmark this page and come back when you do and you’ll see what this wave embed looks like and get a sneak peak of what can be done with Wave.


If you don’t have an account, here’s a screenshot of part of what the embed looks like:

Google Wave Embed

Google Wave Embed

Currently, you need an invitation to Google Wave. Stay tuned for more about Google Wave by subscribing to this blog. Hopefully by then you’ll have a Wave account and won’t feel so teased. :)

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  • Great - I was just wondering whether any healthcare folks were on gwave - I will come and look you up.
  • Personally, I use Showdocument for online teaching and web conferencing. I'm not saying these programs aren't good,
    But I think a web-based application is always better, since there's nothing to download or install.
    try it at http://www.showdocument.com . -andy
  • Still trying to wrap my head around the embeds - this has a lot of potential!
  • I have a Google Wave account and I am logged into the account but I am not able to see the embedded wave.
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  • hmmm. I have a Google Wave account but can't view your embed. Is it public?
  • Ah! That's why - I thought it was, but it I don't see public@a.googlewave.com invited now. I'll fiddle with it.

    Which of course raises the whole issue about permissions, privacy and security. For instance, what if you're participating in a wave you don't realize is public and embedded elsewhere? As far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be an obviously easy way to know that a wave is public unless you're really paying attention. Is there? (Other than the yellowed bar that says "[not-yet-implemented-user] gave everyone access")
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