Google Wave: Better than Twitter for Conference Chatter?

Google Wave debuted in a whirlwind of buzz and expectation, and yet few of us have managed to make it part of our workflow. What is Google Wave good for anyway? Those use cases are still emerging, it seems.

Here’s an interesting one: Charlie Osmond at the FreshWorks blog points out that Twitter hashtags – adding the conference name as a hashtag on a tweet – aren’t an ideal solution to tracking a conference. In fact, Google Wave can do a better job, as proven by the recent Ecomm conference, at which delegates were all given Wave accounts and collaborated on Waves relating to each presentation. Full story...