Finding your friends on Google Wave

Pt. 2 of 10 | 2:03 |

A video overview of Google Wave

Tuesday November 17, 2009

Google Wave is interesting for any one of a number of reasons. Unlike traditional email, you can add a person into a Wave at any point -- say when the conversation swings in such a way that you know a colleague who really should see what's happening to put her two-cents in the pot -- and he or she will see everything that's happened in the discussion thus far. No forwarding multiple emails. No wacky line breaks, just a clear record of the discussion to this point.

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Show Notes

- In order to use Google Wave you need to add contacts into your account so that you can communicate. By default, your Gmail contacts are automatically added if they have a Google Wave account.

- Click the plus sign next to "manage contacts" and enter in the email address of the person you wish to add. If they have a Wave account then you'll be able to click on submit. If they do not yet have a Wave account then you'll see a note explaining that you can not yet add them as a contact.

- You can

add a new contact

from within a Wave by clicking on the plus sign next to your image. Enter in the email address of the person who you would like to add and you can add them into the Wave as well as into your contacts.

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