Google Wave Public Timeline, twitter - how to create public wave

Listen, this is a pretty cool thing. Google Wave also has a public timeline, like twitter. It shows all wave created and updated if they are marked “public”, and this happens real-time. You can open these waves and join the conversation. Â To access it, all you need to do is, type “with:public” without quotes, in to the search bar.

Google Wave Public Timeline

One day after the beta account invites were sent out to thousands of users for preview, the wave public timeline is full of people excited about their new wave accounts. I can see new waves appearing every second.

If you’d like to make the contents of a wave public, addÂ public@a.googlewave.com as a participant. This will let you publish the wave on blogposts etc. This may bring the wave in the public timeline. If that is not working, Add public@a.gwave.com as a contact from your contacts menu, and then add it as Â a user on the wave. This will publish wave to with:public timeline.

Trends on Public Timeline, Day two.

Find More People: The basic trend on wave now is simple. People need to know more wave users to connect to, so that they can actually try using wave. A wave account is useless if you do not know anyone else without a wave account. Â People are trying to find wave users from their geographical area, or their country. I saw a wave for people testing the upcoming version of ubuntu, 9.10 ( Karmic ).

Collect Information: See titles of few popular public waves, or wave groups : ” Anything About Photography” “Game Design Wave Group”, These waves are edited by many people, adding links and information about specific topics. Â Something similar to wikipedia ?

Advertising and Social Media Networking: People are creating waves to advertise their blog, or lets not call it advertising, but social media marketing using google wave ? I could see a wave with 99 responses, with the title, Public Wave of Mashable.com ( mashable is a popular social media blog )

The Best Part, Public Waves are searchable.

Yes, the best part about public waves, or wave groups, as some call it is, it can be searched. Type in with:public followed by your search term, and you will find waves with that keyword. In future. this will be a huge source of information, and also an revenue source for google, through advertising.

Google Wave is evolving in many new ways and forms, that is with only few thousands of users, and this is second day. I am excited !!

35 thoughts on “Google Wave has a Public Timeline, like Twitter”

Jansen October 3, 2009 at 12:57 am

a cool article. btw, how can we create a new wave for public?

dinu October 3, 2009 at 1:05 am

thanks and good question .. I am editing the post to add how to do that
1. Jansen October 3, 2009 at 1:07 am
  
  that’s great!
  1. dinu October 3, 2009 at 1:10 am
    
    thanks again for the question

| Balu | October 3, 2009 at 1:11 am

Wow great info now that should make my wave time busier =P

dinu October 3, 2009 at 1:14 am

lol yea its really crowded out there …

Google Wave Blogger October 3, 2009 at 10:50 am

Nice info Dinu.

dinu October 3, 2009 at 11:10 am

glad you liked it

Walter October 3, 2009 at 10:51 am

Google wave is indeed multi-funtional. I think it was build under the framework of social media.

dinu October 3, 2009 at 11:10 am

yes, this public line, searchable, was a surprise to me ..

Jansen October 3, 2009 at 11:15 am

i tried public@a.googlewave.com, but google wave said “public@a.googlewave.com is not a Google Wave account.”

dinu October 3, 2009 at 5:16 pm

try public@a.gwave.com it will work
1. Lena October 8, 2009 at 2:30 pm
  
  did this stop working? both addresses display the aforementioned error for me
  1. dinu October 8, 2009 at 2:58 pm
    
    really ? I will check it again !

xylene October 3, 2009 at 7:12 pm

Hey thanks for all the updates on google wave. I prefer reading your posts than the google blog.

dinu October 5, 2009 at 10:05 pm

lol .. that means a lot thanks a lot !!

xylene October 6, 2009 at 7:40 pm

Now, how do I get a google wave account? Can someone invite me?

dinu October 6, 2009 at 9:17 pm

my invitations are over

g October 9, 2009 at 10:36 pm

please send me a google wave account link

dinu October 19, 2009 at 12:30 pm

invitations over
good luck with your search ….

Kiran October 9, 2009 at 11:14 pm

Sigh! Dinu, you’ve exhausted your invites!! Who can I get the invites? I want to try GWave!

dinu October 19, 2009 at 12:32 pm

yea .. ! I have kept one invitation for a lucky draw here wait for it

technogran October 18, 2009 at 1:47 pm

Thanks for this, I had been wondering how to access those public Waves!

dinu October 19, 2009 at 12:32 pm

you are welcome !!

Philip October 19, 2009 at 8:01 am

isnt Google wave another hype from Google? Collaboration was available decades ago in products like Lotus Notes. Even online collaboration tools are available in thousands on the net. Read this article

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/techtonicshifts/archive/2009/10/15/google-wave-huh-what-is-it-good-for.aspx

Althaf October 20, 2009 at 10:01 am

Pls can somebody send me a invitation to google wave
mfmalthaf@gmail.com

dinu October 29, 2009 at 1:28 pm

I sent you one now !
1. Althaf November 3, 2009 at 2:22 pm
  
  Dinu i still ddnt get it….
  can u send me a one
  1. dinu November 3, 2009 at 3:14 pm
    
    wait for couple of days more, it takes a looong time to reach the invitee .