Google Wave - Does anyone actually use it?

[Tilpots]

I agree- checking all of your old posts would be silly. But, when someone edits your statement, it appears as a modified/marked as new blip within the wave. The wave is essentially marked as new until you acknowledge this edit. You are therefore specifically notified that someone has modified your words. I would think that knowing you are likely to get caught in an attempt to sneakily change someone else's words would deter you from such an action. Its not entirely unlike a tracked change in a word processor- you are notified of a change and you accept the change when you acknowledge the changed blip.

Again, not the point. Between the time it's edited and the time you catch it, somebody has put words in your mouth and when your name is on a post, you are endorsing it. It's just a flaw of the Wave. If you could grant permission to editors of your choice, or the Wave starter, that is another story entirely. But when any random can put words in your post, it crosses a line.

 

[aloofman]

Got my invite… sent out a lot. Now Google keeps sending me new batches and I have run out of even "remote acquaintances"…

I have not found it useful at all.
Time will/might tell.

Exactly my experience. I sent out invites in the hopes that I would get something going and we'd figure out what to use it for, but it hasn't happened. I get the feeling like it's halfway to being something new and interesting, but no one knows what it is. Five years from now someone will create a similar service that has only a couple of differences that make it really take off, but I couldn't explain what those changes would be.

We managed to get everybody at work on it, and make a new wave for each new project, to keep all relevant communication for that project in one place.

This is the one obvious use I can think of. If you have a group of people that are collaborating on a project of some kind, it could be a nice tool to help with that.