Remember Google Wave? Well just because all the hype around Wave has almost died this does not necessarily mean that the project itself has died. A couple of months ago Google acquired Etherpad -a real-time collaborative text editor- and stated that the EtherPad team will continue its work on realtime collaboration by joining the Google Wave team. Until now, I had only seen a few changes in the Google Wave like some checkboxes, some keyboard shortcuts and a couple of permission-related changes. Today I noticed a major new feature added in Google Wave that is a few quick start templates.

It has been about 6 months since Google launched the anticipated real-time communication platform, Wave. Since then, people have been documenting and using this communication platform in many ways. If you are still looking for the right documentation about Wave, you should have a look at Gina Trapani’s Complete Guide to Google Wave which is one of the most complete guides I ‘ve seen around about Wave.

So, what are these quick start guides about? There are 6 ready-to-go templates that help you use and understand Google Wave even better. These include a blank wave, a discussion wave, a task tracking wave, a meeting wave, a document wave and last but not least, a brainstorm wave. Each one of them starts a corresponding new wave that already includes some data in it including some text/paragraph formatting and some times a Google Wave gadget.

Why don’t you just start a new wave.