Home

To go to the first message of the wave

End

To go to the last message in the wave

Shift/Tab

Navigate through messages (outside edit mode)

PageUp/PageDown

To go to the next page/previous page within the panel

Space

To go the next unread-message in the wave

Ctrl + Space

Mark all messages unread (when focus on the wave panel)

Left/Right Arrows

Shift focus between inbox and compose window

Messages

Enter

Reply to the message at the same level of indentation.

A new message will appear just below the selected message.

Ctrl + R

Same as Enter

Shift + Enter

Reply to a message at the end of the thread.

The new message will appear at the same indentation level, at the very end of the thread.

If you press Shift + Enter again it’s equivalent to click Done button.

Ctrl + E

Edit the message

Ctrl + Enter

Insert inline reply (While Editing)

Text Editing & Formatting

Shift + Enter

To finish editing a wave. Same as clicking Done button

Ctrl + n

To make the current line is a Heading.

n is a numeric between 1 and 4

Ctrl + 5

Adds bullets

Ctrl + 6

Removes formatting

Ctrl + B

Bold / Un bold

Ctrl + I

Italics / Un italics

Ctrl + G

Select colour

Ctrl + K

Adds a link

Ctrl + L

Select the url from the browser address bar

Useful to link another wave.

(Example : Highlight a text, hit Ctrl+L, highlight a url or wave id)

Ctrl + C

Copy Text

Ctrl + X

Cut Text

Ctrl + V

Paste Text

Not much is known about Google Wave except that there are hopes it will do away with all other forms of collaboration. The way I see Google Wave developing is that it will become a very useful tool to connect different business services onto one platform. This will become more and more popular as more and more businesses use it. This is a system for the big boys, whoever invests time and effort to implement and understand it, will be leading the pack. However, at the moment we’ve not even touched the tip of the iceberg.

Developers have to get stuck in and create reliable secure programs for the Wave system to plug into and connect business services. The important thing will be security. Google Wave will make it possible to do purchases directly via a Wave.

People and businesses will only adopt these game changing methods (as well as keeping the old methods) once it becomes mainstream and 100% reliable and secure.

(Google Wave Explained by Mashable)

I wouldn’t get my hopes up right now. We’re still a long road away before it becomes integrative for business structures.

In the meanwhile we need to address the security issues and discuss them.

What we talk about and demand the system to have is what the developers will develop.

The butterfly feeling of Google Wave will soon disappear however, it will come back when Wave services have the ability to grow your business’s bottom line securely.

06 Oct 2009
Dian Joubert

Google Wave Security Forum