 merrie says: When someone updates a wave in your inbox, it turns bold and moves to the top of your inbox"just like email. If a contact of yours is online, a little green dot appears on his or her icon. All the modules are collapsible and dock themselves in the upper part of the screen. If you've collapsed your inbox and a new wave gets updated, it flashes green. Here I've clicked on new wave and minimized all the other modules to expand my workspace. You can add all sorts of rich content to your wave, like a YouTube video, Google Map, image, links, or anything that a gadget enables. (More on gadgets below.) Here I've added some colored text and embedded a video clip in my wave. When I finish typing and click the Done button on my wave, Wave pops up the "Add participants" module so I can share my wave with anyone on my contacts list. You can search for a contact by name, or just drag and drop anyone to the wave you choose. Once you've shared a wave, the magic starts to happen. At first you’ll swoon over the ability to watch your co-waver type in real-time. It’s weird in a good, we’re-living-in-the-future way to see another person’s cursor hard at work outputting characters, key by key on your own screen. But you get over that novelty pretty quickly. (Most likely your IM client can do that; anyone who’s used collaborative editors like SubEthaEdit has seen this as well.) Google Wave Overview YouTube video (7:52) Product managers, Stephanie and Greg explain many of the features of Google Wave. Learn more at http://wave.google.com More on Wave with more screen shots >>> Google Wave First Look http://lifehacker.com/5370738/google-wave-first-look I have a Google account. Why can't I sign in to Google Wave? Even though you have a Gmail or a Google account, you must be invited to Google Wave in order to sign in. If you haven't been invited by a friend, you won't be able to use the service at this time. If you have been invited, but you aren't able to sign in, make sure you follow the link in the email invitation the first time you want to access the service. You must use your unique URL the first time you sign in to Google Wave. [i]Google Wave is currently available in a limited preview release. Sign up to receive updates about Google Wave's availability. If you are a Google Apps administrator and you are interested in using it o[b]... I have Google Wave. Sigh! It's not much fun unless you have friends whom you talk/collaborate on daily basis. However, there is a Public stream - public waves - which is similar to Twitter environment. Hopefully it will be available for public download. I think Google will open it before Christmas at the latest, and it will explode into the social networks. I've got mine Google Wave invitation by posting a request here: http://googlewaveinvites.weebly.com/ had to fill a dumb survey, but it worked and I got the invite so whatever. |
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