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From: Shelley French <>
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Google wave
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:16:37 +1100
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Alan, Wim,

Yes, I wouldn't rely on google wave for anything important at this stage. It's not particularly stable and I imagine they'll be doing a lot more on privacy and control of waves. At the moment, anyone in a private wave can add anyone else to it. You would need to trust the other people. I don't think the person who created the wave has any special rights. (Says me with all of three days experience in it!) Definately more of a toy right now!

I don't know what You Send It is like, but I've been playing with Dropbox lately and that has a lot of potential for collaboration and sharing big files. It lets you each synchronise with the same online folder, is free, and claims to be secure. It all works automatically once installed. I've been using it to keep my Genbox database in sync between my desktop and laptop for the past few weeks. It's working well for me. I don't know how it would go with big files (how big is big?).

Back to Wave - I'm not really sure exactly what we might use it for but there's plenty of potential. eg. working together on more Genbox tutorials. It also has the ability to include a robot translator in the wave so we could each speak in our own language - but I would wonder how good the translations are.

Shelley


> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:14:08 +0000
> From:
> To:
> Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Google wave
>
> Hi Alan.
>
> Mostly, the person who starts the "wave" is the one who invites the other(s) from his or her contact list. Privacy issues are handled by Google so I guess it depends on how much you trust the people at google to handle that. Same as with gmail I would guess.
> Is the Google Wave Help section available for you? http://www.google.com/support/wave/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=24979
>
> Don't know what the maximum filesize for an attachment to a wave is. Or how it handles the attachment. It's also in a sort of "pre-beta" (alpha) state so a lot might change or other functionality might get added in the future. At the moment, the functionality is "text oriented". People working on the same text document. For instance a Family Newsletter.
>
> I haven't used Wave in a meaningful way yet, It's more like a toy for me at the moment. I have invited you too. Just take a look and play with it after you've received the invite.
>
> Wim
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Cuddles <>
> To:
> Sent: Wed, 18 November, 2009 23:53:38
> Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Google wave
>
> Very much so. I am in contact with an Australian rellie and we have to use
> You-Send-It to transfer large files. Is the data secure from unintended
> eyes?
> Alan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "wim prange" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Google wave
>
>
> > Hi Alan,
> >
> > Google Wave is a cooperation tool where people can work on a project or a
> > document online.
> >
> > For example, when you work on a particular part of your family tree with a
> > couple of researchers all over the world, you could use Wave to share
> > information. Instead of exchanging e-mails back and forth correcting each
> > others info and expanding it with additional information or adding
> > sources, you will be working on one "e-mail" online. You're allowed to
> > edit each other's information when it's incorrect, adding info to
> > information that's allready there, etc. etc. etc. You can add files (for
> > instance scans/pictures) to that document.
> >
> > Interested?
> >
> > Wim
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Cuddles <>
> > To:
> > Sent: Wed, 18 November, 2009 11:19:24
> > Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Google wave
> >
> > I looked at it but didn't understand it!
> > Alan
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "wim prange" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:19 AM
> > Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Google wave
> >
> >
> >> Are there people interested in getting an invite? I have a couple of
> >> invites left.
> >>
> >> Wim
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----
> >> From: Shelley French <>
> >> To:
> >> Sent: Tue, 17 November, 2009 6:28:12
> >> Subject: [GENBOX] Google wave
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Are any other Genbox users on the Google Wave preview? I've just added a
> >> public wave for Genbox users.
> >>
> >> I think this address should get you there if you're in Wave. It won't go
> >> anywhere if not.
> >> https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252BvP7J6-ISA.3
> >>
> >> Shelley
> >>
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