One of the things that we see asked time and time again with Google Buzz having been launched this week is, “Will Buzz be just another Google Wave?” Sure enough, there seems to be relatively little prominent use of Google’s post-mail client, but that could well be because those who are using Wave are doing so in a fairly quiet, out of the way fashion; Wave is not, by nature, a very public affair.
We like to call it Google Dave 
Still, it seems that the vast majority of users who have criticised Google Wave for a total lack of activity have done so after first checking their Wave account (often for the first time after a period of protracted absence) and realised that there was nothing there to demand their attention; it’s very much the same thing as checking an email account you haven’t used in months and expecting it to contain messages for you…
Still, there are those who seem to have found a use for Google Wave outside of the norm, and for those of us who’ve been using it, it’s become a fairly invaluable tool.
Take Notes:
Among the most impressive things I encountered during a recent class on web-based technologies by Mulley Communications[http://mulley.ie/] was a use to which Google Wave was being put by two other attendees sitting in front of me. Indeed, so compelling was this use of Google Wave that it became difficult to focus on much else.
Wave is being seen as increasingly useful for conferences
Essentially, all that was going on was note-taking inside Google Wave, nothing so very shocking about that; it’s a relatively simple arrangement, and one that might even be better handled in Google Docs, given the different formatting options that Google Docs offers. Still, there were some enormous benefits to having multiple editors to a single document in real time, especially when someone is speaking and giving off-the-cuff advice.
