A clear, super quick, easy-to-understand guide to Google Wave - Google's new e-mail, im, and social networking product * Fast access to instructions for every common task, plus reliable, concise answers to the most widely asked questions * Organized into lessons that distill the most crucial information on each Google Wave topic * Tips and cautions point out shortcuts, solutions, and help readers avoid common pitfalls. According to Wikipedia, "Google Wave is a self-described 'personal communication and collaboration tool' announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009. It is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. It has a strong collaborative and real-time focus supported by extensions that can provide, for example, spelling/grammar checking, automated translation among 40 languages, and numerous other extensions. Initially released only to developers, a 'preview release' of Google Wave was extended to 100,000 users in September 2009, each allowed to invite twenty to thirty additional users." Sams Teach Yourself Google Wave in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical answers for fast results. By working through the 10-minute lessons, readers learn everything they need to know to quickly and easily get up to speed with Google Wave. Step-by-step instructions walk readers through the most common questions, issues, and tasks..."Did You Know?" tips offer insider advice and shortcuts..."Watch Out!" alerts help them avoid problems. Sams Teach Yourself Google Wave in 10 Minutes will provide beginner and experienced users with fast at a glance tips pointing out helpful shortcuts and solutions, cautions to help avoid common Google Wave pitfalls, and is written in a clear easy to understand format.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter Introduction 1. Essential Wave 2. Up and Running With Wave 3. Creating Conversations in Wave 4. Adding New People to a Wave 5. Embedding Photos, Documents, Video and More in a Wave 6. Introducing Document Collaboration 7. Collaborative Editing of Documents 8. Publishing Waves 9. Organizing Waves 10. Extending Waves Index

Author Biography

Steven Holzner is the award-winning author of 108 computer books and a contributing editor at PC Magazine. His books have sold 2.5 million copies and have been translated into 22 languages. He specializes in Web topics such as Facebook, banner ads, Google and Yahoo and MSN pay-per-click campaigns, viral marketing, usenet marketing, and more. He also owns four apartment buildings which he markets exclusively on the Web (direct emails, banner ads, pay-per-click, email autoresponders, Craig's list, rent.com, etc--about ten other advertising sites) to find tenants.