Finally, Someone Makes Sense of Google Wave
I’ve gushed about my love of the beloved “tips to hack your life” website Lifehacker recently, but creator Gina Trapani is always giving me reasons to love her more, and not just because she runs a personal site called SmarterWare.
Here’s the latest: I signed up for a Google Wave account way back when, and was one of those not-so-lucky-people-that-I-got-my-account-first, but still-pretty-lucky-and-way-before-almost-everyone-else-i-knew people. Problem was, I launched it a few times, got a little confused, got a little bored, got a little frustrated when something seemed unnecessary or oddly designed, and essentially abandoned the whole thing after some halfhearted settings reviews.
Back to why Gina (with help from Adam Pash) is awesome. She just wrote a complete Google Wave guide called “The Complete Guide to Google Wave” (shocking title, I can’t believe it either) which is available to you, me, and everyone else, for free, on the great big Internet!
It’s pretty much the most comprehensive, inclusive Google Wave-based piece of modern literature that I’ve seen, anyway. God, I’m glad they did all this so I don’t have to.
It’s worth noting their official “Buy the Book” policy:
“The preview edition of The Complete Guide to Google Wave will be available for purchase as a DRM-free PDF in November of 2009. The first edition will debut in January as both a PDF and a softcover print book, with new editions to follow throughout 2010.
Keep an eye on this site, follow us on Twitter, or subscribe to our mailing list to find out when the book will be available for purchase. Read more about our grand experiment in quick, iterative, and independent technology publishing on our About page.
The Complete Guide to Google Wave is and will continue to be freely available to read online at completewaveguide.com.”
Now, if that isn’t an early gift under the tree, I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS, PEOPLE.
