The Complete Guide to Google Wave

Google Wave is not available to everyone just yet. It is currently in a limited preview. So I was surprised when I saw a comprehensive guide (book) to Google Wave. I thought the book was just another social media tools or stuff, you know, like the ones social media marketers on Twitter are tricking you t buy. I’m glad I did a quick scan (yup, quicker than a quick skim) over the chapters.

Okay basically i have Two things to share with you friends:

1. The book looks great. Google Wave is a complex web application and has a reputation of being difficult to understand. But the book makes Google Wave easier to understand. It lives up to its title being comprehensive. From setting up your Wave account and creating your first wave to adding interactive content to your waves with gadgets, the book guides you complete with screenshots as visual aid.

2. The book is free! Its contents are freely available to view online.

Here are some screenshots from the book:

Rich text-editor

Files/file sharing

Slideshow

Google Wave is still an incomplete web application and technology. And there’s still a lot to learn about it. The book will be a continuous collaboration as Google Wave evolves. Try out The Complete Guide to Google Wave.

The Complete Guide to Google Wave is an unofficial guide to Wave written by a community of contributors and edited by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash.

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14 Drawbacks of Google Wave

The Wave preview is pre-beta software, with lots of missing functionality. This appendix is a quick list of 14 things what you can't do yet in Wave.


Currently, in the Wave preview you cannot:


1. Disable real-time, keystroke-by-keystroke live-typing in draft waves, then post them to the hosted conversation by clicking Done (this feature is forthcoming)

2. Remove participants from a wave if that participant is not a bot (this feature is forthcoming)

3. Make a wave read-only (Google "looks forward to offering this functionality in the future.")

4. Ctrl+Z (Undo) changes as you're editing a wave

5. Copy gadgets; the menu item is disabled in the date drop-down menu, a likely indicator this
is forthcoming

6. Cut blips into other waves (Wave surgery). Google has said that this is coming

7. Hide or expand all inline blips; the menu item is disabled in the date drop-down, a likely indicator this is forthcoming

8. Diff revisions that aren't sequential in playback

9. Set your status to invisible or away (if you're online you've got the green dot whether you like it or not)

10. Merge waves or blips

11. Organize your contacts into groups

12. Rearrange blips' vertical order

13. Delete waves or remove participants from waves (both promised)

14. Prevent someone you added as a participant form making the wave public, and thus exposing a potentially private conversation.


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Win a Google Wave Invite with Bmiint

Hi I know everyone of you or at least most of you are looking for Google wave invitation and I really wish if I can invite everyone here.

The problem is I already got enormous request from Google wave invitation and I have only 16 invites left now. So to make it fair, I have come with an idea on who will get this invitation.


I will be running this giveaway for a week from today. All you need to do is:

1. Subscribe Us

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2. Comment or Tweet on our maximum blog post:


I will be giving away 16 Google Wave to Bmiint readers and participation is very easy. I have installed My top commentator plugin, that will help me to keep track of all who is commenting here at Bmiint and no. of times he has commented on different posts.

I will be running this giveaway for a 4 days from today, (ie from 27th november 2009). All you need to do is, Comment on Bmiint Different posts (minimum any 10 post). Top 16 commentator after 4 days will get the Google Wave invite instantly.

or

Tweet at least 10 useful posts from Bmiint including this post, you can see Tweet button at the top of this article. Make sure you add a comment on this post, including your tweet link, so that we can confirm your participation.

Also use the all new orkut share button to share any post on Bmiint with your orkut friends.

Some tips and rules to be followed:

No keyword in name, use your real name when filling the comment form. You also need to enter the same email address, so that I can keep track of your no. of comments.

Any comments like “Nice info”, “Good Share” will not be counted. You need to add values to posts.
To spice up your comments, you can signup for Gravatar to show an image with your comment.
To speed up your comment you can also install Easy comment firefox plugin.

The only reason I have to come up with this contest, because I need to be fair with this invitation and I can only invite few people. So all you need to do is read useful posts from the past and add useful comments.

You can also write about this giveaway on your blog with link to this article, this will increase your no. of comments to +15.
One comment = 1 point.
One blog post with link to this article : +15

Contest closes on December 1st Tuesday 2009

What Google Wave is, In Theory and In Reality?

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How to Add Twitter to Google Wave : TwitterWave

I’m currently exploring features of Google wave and how can I make my life easier with Google wave. One of the great feature is directly tweet using Google wave.

In this tutorial I will show you step by step how can you use it to tweet from Google wave.

Once you are inside your Google wave, click on add contacts at the left side panel and add following address.

tweety-wave@appspot.com

Click on Submit and add Tweety wave in your contacts.

Now click on tweety The twietbot from your contact panel, on the left sidebar and click on new wave. It will ask you for authentication and authenticate using your twitter ID. Follow the simple screenshots :

And if you have done everything right you can directly tweet from Google Wave. Make sure your pop up blocker is not blocking Twitter authentication pop up.

Till now I’m enjoying the new Google wave application and I’m sure many new features will be seen in near future. I will keep updating you about what all you can do with Twitter wave.

Source: ShoutMeloud