October 2009
Beginner
119 pages
3h 5m
English
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Chapter 4. Riding More Complex Waves
Paddling Farther Out into the Big Blue
So we caught a few baby waves in the last chapter, and by now you should feel comfortable navigating and using the Google Wave Client. In this chapter we’ll spend some time further familiarizing ourselves with the Google Wave Client, and we’ll discuss the use of more complex extensions. This will be the last chapter that deals directly with the Google Wave Client; for discussion about the Google Wave Platform, see Google Wave: Up and Running.
Throwing Some Media into the Mix
The ability to include various types of media in blips adds even greater value to our dialogue with other participants on a wave. I won’t get into clichés about pictures and numbers of words, but I am pretty sure you will agree that media, especially images and videos, can enhance the quality and context of a conversation in a wave.
There are various ways of adding media to a wave, and in Chapter 2 I briefly discussed how Google Wave supports media and attachments. Google Wave Client makes it extremely easy to add media to a wave. And because media is displayed at the blip level, rather than at the general wave level, participants are able to more readily understand the context of the media as it relates to a particular part (or parts) of a conversation.
Let’s try out some of the ways in which we can add media to a wave using the Google Wave Client. Go ahead and create a new wave titled “Media Integration Wave” and then start a reply to your ...
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