Chapter 4. Riding Bigger Waves
Paddling Farther Out into the Big Blue
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, because the next chapter moves on to a discussion about the Google Wave APIs.
Tip
As I mentioned in the previous chapter, you can view and
participate in public waves quite easily by searching your inbox for
with:public (you can also follow or unfollow these waves).
If you’re looking to start a public wave or if you want to convert an
existing wave into a public wave, you can do so by adding either
public@a.gwave.com or easypublic@appspot.com to the wave. This
will allow anyone to find and join your wave.
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. The 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 ...
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