When I used google wave the first time, it not that easy to use as the demo video. It took me some times to get used to it. However, it is pretty good overall. People said that google wave is like IM software, but I think it is more like a e-mail with a chat room. I think this idea supposed to impress to everyone.
So far, we can use "with:public" command to search public waves, but sometimes the command would be "with:public@a.gwave.com". If you want to search public waves in specific languages such as chinese, you can add "lang:zh" at the end of the command. Unfortunately, it is not always work completely right. You may search some others languages by this method.
The most attractive things of google wave is that there are a lot of robots and extension on google wave like translation robot, emotional icon robot, and google map extension. All of this stuff would add more interesting in google wave.
However, there are still things that I don't like it. For example, the speed of google wave is so slow, and it takes too much resources to run it. I know that it is in preview stage, but I think it would be much better when speed of google wave become faster and faster. And the way of classification is not good, I think. The most way of classification in google is label which is in gmail, document, even favorite list. But I don't know why google wave's classification is folder which makes me not adapted to it.
Besides, I hope there will be a option to open a new wave in new window or new tab. It would be more convenience to talk to many people in different waves, even though there is a wave list on the top of web page. To be honest, it is difficult to use at all.
I think google wave will be easier and more convenience to use, but I hope it can improve very soon.
