Few weeks ago Google made wave publicly available, means that everyone who has Gmail account can login to wave! Google had also announced that wave will be open for Google Apps account users. But there was no clue about how to enable it. I myself digged through Google Apps admin interface after that announcement for no luck. But now, you can easily enable Google wave on your Google Apps account.

Just login to Google Apps admin dashboard & click on “Add more services”. You will see something like above screenshot, just click on “Add it now” and you are good to go! Just hit https://wave.google.com/a/YourDomainName in your browser to start using wave with your Google Apps account.

Google wave goes public today! No invites required! Today Google has announced it on Google Wave Official blog. Fact is that, many of the users who were already there on wave have stopped using it. We need to wait and see if going public makes any difference to it. It also decides future of this blog!

When I started the blog, I created a form to submit Gadgets & Robots to review. I was regularly checking that spreadsheet & nothing was submitted in initial days. Gradually I stopped looking into it. Today I opened it after a long time & surprised to see so many review requests. I’m really sorry for this, I have now set email notification for each submission. So, I won’t missout on any submission from now on.

If you are one of those who submitted Gadget/Robot for review, expect a review within a week.

If you are active on Google wave, very soon your wave inbox get cluttered. To help organize your inbox & to get rid of unwanted waves, Google has added “Unfollow” button. Just click “Unfollow” button to get rid of a wave from inbox. You can still access these waves by searching from the “Search waves”. You might be wondering how different “Unfollow” is different from “Archive”. Well, when a wave is archived, it appears back in inbox whenever there’s something new in it. User will be automatically following a wave if it is sent to you by your friend, basically a private wave. But, if you want a public wave to appear in your inbox, you have to follow it by clicking “Follow” button. To select multiple waves use “Shift” key & you can Archive, Unfollow, Spam, Mark as Read/Unread…etc

We have got 20 invites to give away!! All you need to do is comment to this blogpost!! Make sure you are giving proper email ID while commenting, because that will be used to send you invite.

We have got 20 invites, so first 20 commentators of this blogpost can grab them!

Update:

All the invites have been given away to all who commented on this post, including the 21st commentator! Keep checking Go-Wave or subscribe to feeds for next give away. Comment section of this post has been disabled to avoid spam.

Just few minutes back, this tweet showed up on Google Wave’s official twitter channel. According to this tweet Google Wave team will be sending our more invites on daily basis to those who requested for one. If you haven’t requested for an invite yet, request it over here. And keep checking your inbox!

Waveboard is a Google Wave application for Mac. Waveboard claims that it has Easy desktop integration and special Google Wave features compared to using Google Wave in browser. I don’t have a Mac to review this app completely. If you are a Mac owner, do let everyone know what you feel about the app via commenting.

Link: http://www.getwaveboard.com/

On the sandbox account we were able to see status of a buddy with the help of a little green dot. Google pulled this feature off on the Google Wave preview since it caused them some problems. Now, it’s back on the Google Wave preview also!! So now you can know who is online & start waving with them.

One of the problem I have with wave is, I forget to check back at regular intervals. The reason being, still not many people from my contacts aren’t not on Google Wave. But this sometimes make me miss some interesting conversations. Google Wave Add-On for Firefox is Firefox addon which notifies user about new/unread waves. Install the add-on to Firefox & give your Google Wave credentials in settings. That’s it, add-on starts alerting you whenever there’s something new happening in a wave. Double clicking on the little wave icon in the status bar takes you to wave home page.

Get the add-on at ThatSmith