A new Wave Manual written by LifeHacker founder Gina Trapani along with LifeHacker editor Adam Pash has been released - online free to read. The Complete Guide to Google Wave was announced this week on This Week in Google - one of Leo Laporte's live TWIT.tv Podcasts.
Trapani stated she managed the production of the whole book entirely in Google Wave, and noted she ran into a few minor problems (like inviting the wrong people to a wave etc). Trapani also mentioned she would have loved to author the whole book in Wave, but didn't feel Wave was up to the challenge yet, since it is still in development and has a few flaws before it would be up to that challenge. Read more »

In a reply to my earlier post about Wave, Paul of the PC Thoughts blog posted a comment with a few questions about Wave. I decided to reiterate and elaborate on my response here:

I think Wave is pretty fun. Sometimes it's buggy, and doesn't do what you expect, but overall, it works as advertised.
I've found myself using the "with:public tag:[whatever]" search somewhat frequently. Basically, what this does is finds Waves which have been made public by inviting the "public@a.gwave.com" user to the wave.

This makes Wave feel a lot like a forum, or IRC depending how active a wave currently is. Read more »

So, I finally have a wave account. I've been playing with it for a while, and it works (mostly) as advertised.
Slowly it's getting more usable, but it's a long way from being the kind of thing my mum can use (well, maybe my mum could - but you know what I mean).

Anyway, because wave is still under development, it's interesting to see the maintenance outages once in a while. I do like the down time screen though:
"Surf's out, dude.
Google Wave is down for maintenance. Time to chillax."

Update:
Also, it's cool because the waves and clouds are all animated with scrolling and stuff :-)
Oh, and it's back up now. Read more »