First aves

Google has just unveiled their plans for group waves. The Google Wave Blog out­lines the steps to set up a Google Group (yes, you have to use another tool) then add the group as a con­tact in Google Wave.

The ser­vice does not yet allow you to add users by their googlewave.com account (gmail.com only), and the per­mis­sions can only be han­dled through the Google Groups inter­face. It also seems that to avoid spam (being able to send mes­sages to an every­one in a pub­lic group at once) users must pro-actively seek out the group wave and fol­low it to move it to their inbox [cur­rently wait­ing for con­fir­ma­tion of this].

Like any Wave fea­ture, this is still being devel­oped and its behav­iour could change over time. The Wave team have said they will con­tinue to enhance the groups fea­ture to make groups eas­ier to navigate.

Wav­ing with groups — Google Wave Blog.