I made a mistake in my first public wave post. I added the public address to my wave's contact list before writing the article. While I just finished typing two lines then one user visited my wave, he wrote straight forward below my sentence, "hi, could you see while I'm typing...?"
Sure I could but I didn't want to chat with you, I'm writing my article and you break my concentration, don't bother me please!
The problem is, I can not delete it since it has been recorded by the system. I click the un-follow button and drag the entire wave to my trash folder.
Of course I didn't say something like that, however, this is one of negative side from real-time communication features. To avoid that, the rule is - finish first your article in your wave page then add the public address in to your wave's contact list afterwards.
It is quite interesting to see how users started to use their first Google Wave. Some users introduce themselves, hi my name is John Doe bla.. bla.., others post a discussion topic where in most case it will go out of topics and one user started a boring topic in Internet such as Why we believe in God.
Here, I would like to share a quick 'how to' around Wave. This is not intend to be read by the expert but more for us the ordinary users of Internet.
What is Google Wave?
Google Wave is an Online Tool for real-time communication and collaboration.
What is the purpose of Google Wave?
You can use Google Wave for any range of Internet activities you have been familiar with.
You can use it similar like social networks sites such as Facebook, Myspace etc, keep contact with your friends or colleagues, only for fun playing interactive online games, sharing your documents, create your Wave Blogging or use it for business activities.
Google Wave is a mini Internet inside the Internet, an open communication platform that can be growth to any direction depend on how the users will use it for their own purposes.
How to post a wave for public?
- To post a public wave add a public@a.gwave.com address into your contact list first.
- Click a new wave button and start type your content. Your wave first line will become a title that will appear in wave public threads.
- Once you have finished with your content then add the "public@a.gwave.com" into your wave article. It will immediately be readable by wave readers.
- Add tags to the article by clicking the tag's button in the bottom of your wave page. Tags will help users to find a certain topics in public wave.
How to search the public wave?
- Type with:public in the wave search field. All public wave's headings will appear in your wave inbox. If you have a slow internet connection it is recommended to limit your search to certain topics or tags.
- Use with:public tag:tutorials to find a public wave with tutorial topics, or if you want to find a certain keyword phrase you can use with:public "how to search the public wave". The keyword phrase should be inside the quote sign.
Any action you - or other users - do in each wave will be recorded by the system. This allows you to navigate through the history of the wave, seeing every edit made and by who. To see the timeline, click the Playback button at the top of the respective wave.
Timeline also applied in public wave, where all readers can read through all actions in the threads except private reply section. Private replies only appear to the contacts which are included in the private reply section.
more.. later on..