Animesh Kumar {itsAnimesh}
I'm an IT professional from New Delhi, India. Currently for the most part I work as a Technical Consultant developing Open Source ICT solutions for social and societal inclusion. I'm also pursing PG in Management. Below are the latest updates from a some social networks I subscribe to.
Google Wave gets user manual!!!
It’s no secret that Google Wave is hard to understand, and goes over our heads. It is supposed to free us from our preconceived notions of communicating and collaborating with people online, but these may be difficult to shake off since we’re all used to email and instant messenger. It’s supposed to give us the freedom we need to use it as a tool in different ways, but let’s be honest, sometimes we want someone to teach us how to float first instead of just pushing us into the deep end of the pool. After all, as the guide notes, Google Wave is “notoriously difficult to understand“.
A lot of Internet users seem to have become obsessed with getting Google Wave since it’s by invitation only for the moment. I got invitation last week, but I’ll be honest with you, confronted with the Wave dashboard for the first time, I scratched my head and asked “hmm… What Now?”. Well, Gina Trapani and Adam Pash from productivity blog Lifehacker have put together a user manual.
Titled The Complete Guide to Google Wave, the guide covers getting started, managing contacts, waves, gadgets and bots. It also discusses what Wave can’t do yet, and – most importantly – what on earth it actually is. It presently features eight chapters, which are just a preview to a more completion work to be launched as a PDF file later this month. The full book will be available in January 2010 as both a PDF and as a soft cover book. The manual is built on MediaWiki software, meaning that it’s possible to contribute your own suggestions to improve it.
The Complete Guide to Google Wave is an unofficial guide,it is not published by or affiliated with Google, Inc.