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Welcome to the first comprehensive user guide to Google Wave, written by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash.

Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn the ins and outs of how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. This entire book is available to read for free online, with an electronic and upcoming print version available for purchase.

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Table of Contents

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    This book's contents are freely available to view online. Click on a chapter to read it.

    Chapter 1 Meet Google Wave
    Find out what Google Wave is and what problems it solves.
    Chapter 2 Get Started with Wave
    Set up your Wave account and create your first wave.
    Chapter 3 Manage Your Wave Contacts
    Find and add people and groups to collaborate with in Wave.
    Chapter 4 Find and Organize Waves
    Tag, file, search, and filter waves.
    Chapter 5 Dive Deeper into Wave
    Add rich content to your waves like maps and photo slide shows.
    Chapter 6 Master Wave's Interface
    Navigate Wave from the keyboard and customize your Wave interface.
    Chapter 7 Wave Gadgets
    Add interactive content to your waves with gadgets.
    Chapter 8 Wave Bots
    Automatically update the contents of your waves with bots.
    Appendix A What Wave Can't Do
    It's not just you. See what's NOT working in the current version of Wave, and what features the Wave team has promised are coming.
    Appendix B Contribute to The Complete Guide to Google Wave
    In the spirit of Google Wave, this guide is a collaborative effort. We need you (yes, you) to help revise and expand this guide as Wave evolves.

    If you just can't get enough of Wave, see also our growing compilation of Wave-related links and video clips from across the web.

    Translations

    Thanks to all the readers who volunteered to translate the contents of this book. The current translations in progress include:

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    Disclaimer

    This is an unofficial guide to Wave written by a community of contributors and edited by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash. This guide is not published by or affiliated with Google, Inc.—we're regular users, just like you are. (But Google Wave is a trademark of Google, Inc.)

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