Wave: First hand motions...

[alexpgp]

From the Vembu blog:

Create a wave of your own and make it public by adding public@a.gwave.com as wave participant. There’s a small ‘trick’ needed with this one. When you Click on the + beside the Manage Contacts link and type public.a.gwave.com as a contact, you’ll get an unfriendly  “User does not have a Google Wave account” message. Just ignore it, and hit the enter key. The contact gets added and is called ‘Public’ in your contacts list. Now you can create a new wave and add ‘Public’ to the conversation.

Bloody intuitive.

I don't think anything like ignore it and hit Enter would've occurred to me on my own.

Small hand motions, small, small... that's how we learn to Wave!

Cheers...

Comments

Wave??

[daphnis.livejournal.com]

But . . . . . WHY does one need to Wave? (Don't try to explain . . . . I just had to ask '-\

Re: Wave??

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Well, actually, I'll bet there are a pile of people asking themselves precisely the same question!

Wave is Google's latest web-based collaborative whizzbang - at least my understanding of it - is that it's supposed to let groups of people work on stuff more efficiently than using "old-fashioned" tools like e-mail.

E-mail turned out to be mostly a flop, because it ended up that everyone was sending copies of everything to everybody else (just in case), which ended up with everyone pretty much ignoring almost everything they received.

But don't get me started.

Call it a pastime! :)

Cheers...