Comments on: Google Wave – Why Agents Need to Learn This Tool Now

By: Terry McDonald

Terry McDonald — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:58:07 +0000

I’m not one of the invitees but at an SEO REBAR meetup yesterday in Charlotte the reviews were decidedly mixed…from “nothing there” to an excellent way to teach a class online.
Question: How many new ways do we need to communicate?

By: Doug Francis

Doug Francis — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:34:24 +0000

Wow, the video on this makes me want to get in line… The agent and client interaction would be a great tool. Do I beg for an invitation @ToddWaller?

By: Scott Forcier

Scott Forcier — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:05:36 +0000

I think there is! I haven’t used it either but this was one of my first thoughts as well and will be one of my main initial practical uses of the wave without a doubt.

I’m also looking forward to working with buyers searching for properties and actually providing SERVICE over a wave. I really can’t wait!

By: Scott Forcier

Scott Forcier — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:00:52 +0000

Duuuuuuuuudes I sure could use a google invite.

For the spirit of Chrismas, LORD, send me a google invite!

I would love to work and share with you all.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:52:53 +0000

A business acquaintance of mine actually did a prototype of an app similar to Wave a few years ago. It was targeted at Realtors to facilitate real time collaboration with clients. The feature set was very similar to Wave but the project was never completed, so I’m very excited to see Wave available now.

Now only if I could get an invite

By: Todd Waller

Todd Waller — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:31:11 +0000

Benn,

Aaaand there’s the rub with Wave… Will the Google index/crawl these waves? Which waves will they crawl? If it truly is an open source hunk of software, then installation of Wave for businesses (agents & brokers) would, presumably, make the sharing of information a little more ‘comfortable.’

Right now, in its shaky beta phase, I’d be leery of using this for sensitive client communications. Having said that, and once Wave’s limitations are known, I could see a few applications immediately for agents;

1 – House Hunting Collaboration with buyers
2 – Lead management for RE teams
3 – Office ‘Meetings’ for home office or distant agents

By: Gary Sattelberger

Gary Sattelberger — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:53:41 +0000

I wonder if Google would be able to crawl the conversations if the Wave software was run on a private server/domain. If I recall correctly, Google mentioned in their big roll-out video that this is open source software that could be run on a private server.

When I first saw the Wave intro video one of the thoughts I had was would this software have the potential to be used as a transaction management application. I hope there is strong enough security for something like this.

I don’t have a Wave account yet so I am just hopefully speculating at this point.