Hey there friend… Wave?

It’s been a busy few weeks with some looming project deadlines, so I received a nice pick me up on Tuesday when Google informed me that I was receiving my Google Wave invitation.  Now two days later, a whole bunch of my Wave friends and I are wondering what next?

My Irish friends are keen on discussing the upcoming Ireland-France play off match.  Well, that and posting where they are all going for a pint via the map and voting gadgets while my day is just getting started.

My learning and development peers and I have been discussing how we believe Wave will be a revolutionary tool for distance learning because of its ability to provide a rich collaborative environment for breakout sessions.   So then I started wondering – how would this work on my mobile phone?

I haven’t had the opportunity to test it on my old Windows Mobile or Android phones yet, but I did fire it up on the iPhone.  It gives a warning screen that it’s “not a supported browser”, but you can bypass that and it’ll run.  It’s missing some of the features of the normal version of Wave, but works well.

Then I discovered App-It.  App-It is a web page at www.AppIt.us.  It’s quite simple in that it is a list of links to Google apps, like Gmail, Calendar, Talk, Latitude, voice, etc.  Just make Wave shortcut, by clicking the (+) button in your browser and “Add to Home Screen”.  This creates an icon on the desktop for convenient use.  Now I’m in Google heaven as I use these apps on daily basis for my business.

Are you a Wave user?  if so, what are your thoughts?  How have you used it so far?