Few words about Google Wave

Google Wave has been around for a while and winning users' trust.Google Wave is a communication device all its own, which allows you to communicate online as if the team is in the same room, and it makes your communication with large groups of people more powerful and useful. Google Wave is really good for collaborative things such as project planning, document editing, or just a small chat.

Google Wave is an online communication and collaboration tool that makes real-time interactions more seamless. A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is a conversation with multiple participants – participants are people added to a wave to discuss and collaborate on its content. Participants can reply any time and anywhere within a wave, and they can edit content and add more participants as a wave develops. It’s also possible to rewind waves with the playback functionality, to see what happened, and when.
With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.
When you logon to Google Wave, you come across a three-pane page – Navigation and contact searching on the left, your Wave inbox in the middle, and editing and reading on the right.
You can hide / minimize the left and middle pane by clicking the minimize button on the top right corner of each pane. You can minimize the left-hand sidebar and the middle inbox to get maximum space for reading or editing your wave.
Starting a Wave is just like an e-mail. You can start a new wave by clicking on your minimized Inbox and clicking the “New wave” button. Now you see a new wave, click on the plus button next to your profile picture to add collaborators or readers.
Now the ‘team’ is ready, it’s time to start working. Once you start typing, everyone else on the wave will see you type, as if you see in chat. Once you complete a paragraph, the wave will be shoyou see the similarities to e-mail. Once you bold your first headline, you’ll see the similarities to online collaborative documentation like Google Docs.

How to Use Google Wave
* Professional writing and editing – You can write and collaborate on facts, links, and editing at the same time with your editor, fact-checker, or anyone else you trust. In fact, your editor can edit while you write. By the time you’re done, the document may be ready for it’s next draft.
* Online classroom – Not only does Google Wave allow large amounts of people in the same room, it allows everyone their own replies on the same document (or their own documents as replies to their documents). Want everyone to work on a lab at the same time? Post the questions and let everyone reply with their questions, answers, and homework.
* Role-playing games – You’re the dungeon master. You write the story, the participants play by chatting in replying waves. Display maps, pictures, even music while everyone is connected from anywhere there is an internet connection.
* Continuing Stories – Like the childhood game, you start the story by writing the introductory chapter. Then the buck is passed to the next author to continue the story, and on and on until everyone lives happily ever after.
With the current Wave version, you cannot remove recipients once they have been added. Google Wave is considered by Google developers to be the future of e-mail. It’s hard to believe that Google Wave will replace a legacy system that everyone already understands and just works, like letter writing did in the past, but anything is possible.
(Thanks to tech.in)