I’m thrilled to announce that the online book by Adam Pash and myself, The Complete Guide to Google Wave, is now in print! Order your copy here.
One of Google Wave’s more powerful features is its extensions — small gadgets and doodads you can embed or include in waves to add great functionality. They used to be particularly difficult to hunt down and install, but no more.
Google just turned on email notifications in Wave. That’s great news if you’ve gotten your hands on an invite but haven’t kept up with the going-ons inside — easy to do when you’re not in the habit of visiting the site.
Besides a killer algorithm and brand-name recognition, Google’s greatest strength is its speed at releasing new products. We get to play with new, cool and ever-improving tools for free. Recently, though, we’ve seen that being unwitting lab subjects can kind of stink.
A week ago we asked readers to tell us how they’re using Google Wave in their daily lives, and despite a bit of “ha! no one’s using Wave!” snarking on the Twitter, we got lots of interesting responses.
Once you’re active in Google Wave, you want to know when something new happens there – even if you don’t have Wave open in your browser. These notifier tools monitor your Wave inbox, letting you know you’ve got new and changed waves.
Google Wave may be in invite-only preview and still lack important features, but early adopters ARE using it — and we want to hear about it. Tell us about how you use Wave on a day-to-day basis, and your use case just might get included in The Complete Guide to Google Wave, the first book about Wave.
One of the most-needed missing features in the Google Wave preview rolls out this week: user access permissions. Now, rather than everyone being able to edit everyone else’s blips in a total free-for-all, the creator of a wave can add users and groups and give them either full access to edit everything or read-only access. The binary choice is still too limiting, but GOOG says that “Reply only” access is on its way.
The most common question about Google Wave is “what on earth would I actually use it for?”. Gina offered up some ideas on this last week, but Google developers have some more suggestions.
