What would social networking be without a good dose of Twitter? Facebook got status updates, Youtube got trending topics, now Google Wave, inspired by the micro blogging site has incorporated the 'Follow' feature in Google Wave.
Google Wave will have the trusty 'Following' and 'Unfollowing' feature for public Waves. Public Waves are the ones that are visible to everyone included in the Wave. And its always frustrating to see an unwanted public Wave that keeps updating in your inbox. Earlier you could knock the Wave off by clicking on the 'archive' button, and then wait for hundreds of seconds while Google Wave hangs, refreshes, fails to display anything and then finally obliges.
All that can be avoided now as you can simply click on the 'unfollow' button to stop that Wave annoying you further. Here's the official statement from Google, 'When you see a public wave that you would like to get updates on, you can chose to follow it by hitting the follow button in the wave panel toolbar. You can remove these waves from your inbox by hitting the “archive” button, but when there is an update they will pop back in. You can switch between following and unfollowing a wave as much and as often as you like.'
As mind blowng as Google Wave is, there is always the trouble of information overload. The new 'follow' feature is a welcome change as the product continues to come out of its Beta preview stage. In fact the 'follow' feature is quite like the 'Lists' feature in Twitter, all you have to do is find the Wave containing info that you're interested in, and follow it to get real time updates. According to Google the 'follow' concept is just one of the many things Wave will feature in the coming months. 'Following is the first step towards a set of new tools for managing waves in your inbox … We’re also thinking of expanding the following concept to let you follow people, groups, and searches.'
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