Google Wave in Plain English

10/18/2009 | By Richard Darell

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No one could have missed the pre-invitations to Google’s new and highly anticipated email killer. Or at least that’s how it’s portrayed. I was happily invited by one of my followers (who I still owe a lot for being nice enough to hit me up with an invitation that brought an account to me within just a few days) and as I received my account and was able to register I couldn’t wait to check out what the fuzz was all about.

After registering I fanatically tried each and every link, button, feature it had to offer (SO FAR). It’s potential is really endless. At first it can be a little much. Especially if you are not that good with the keyboard (as Diana Adams pointed out in her premium review of the Google Wave service).

BUT, and this is quite a big but (and I know how this sounds put into a sentence). There are still people out there struggling with the service just to understand what it’s all about and why it is potentially going to bring down email once and for all. After all, it’s been around for 40 years now, and by the lord himself, shouldn’t we have come up with something new and improved by now?

So, I dug up a couple of fast explanations on how Google Wave really works. After watching these you should really have no way of NOT knowing what it’s all about. After all…it’s “Google Wave in Plain English”. Enjoy!

And if you want to add me on Google Wave you can at: bitrebels@googlewave.com

Google Wave in Plain English

Google Wave Made Simple

Author: Richard Darell

Creatively inspired by everything design and music Richard Darell founded Bit Rebels in mid 2009. Focusing on design, geek and technology the site was to provide short and intense articles about knowledge building topics with a twist. Rapidly expanding Bit Rebels welcomed a slew of new writers to add their flavor to the site. In its first 4 months Bit Rebels will already have had over 1,000,000 views and growing. Richard shares his time between writing and producing songs for international artists as well as being a designer/developer and running BitRebels.com and Minervity.com. Richard hails from Stockholm, Sweden but also spends time in Los Angeles.

6 Comments

Diana Adams

October 18th, 2009

Richard,

This article is great! Thanks for the videos. I think the best thing for someone that is confused is to just take it slow and learn it in little pieces. There is no rush to learn every feature immediately. I think the wave will be around for a long time, so there is plenty of time to just take it easy.

The lego people in that second video crack me up.

Reading this makes me want to wave right now! Woot!

Diana

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Nick Gagalis

October 18th, 2009

I like both videos, especially the first one.

Does anyone know what the other 96.5% of Google Wave’s uses are (if that statistic is true)?

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djthistle

October 19th, 2009

I agree with Diana. After messing around with Google Wave for 2 days the more annoying it became until I checked out this post. Thanks again.

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andy stewart

October 19th, 2009

Personally, I use Showdocument for online teaching and web conferencing. I’m not saying these programs aren’t good,
But I think a web-based application is always better, since there’s nothing to download or install.
try it at http://www.showdocument.com . -andy

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