Chapter 168 Review: Google Wave Gadget - Napkin

Verse 1

This is the first one of a series of reviews of some of the different elements that make up Google Wave.
One big part will have to be the Gadgets, these are built by both Google themselves and developers using the API provided. I expect to see a great number of fun and useful products in the future as Wave matures.

The one me and N tried just the other day is called Napkin and is a very ordinary drawing tool with some basic features.
You have a palette of colors and a brush which you can change the size on, clear and undo and that's it. I would liked to have seen some more like the ability to draw shapes as square and circles together with a few more of the things we are used to from Paint.

All in all Napkin is a simple tool that you can have surprisingly fun with as you are both drawing simultaneously  on the same canvas.

Below you can see our masterpiece that started with the wavy black line in the center that i intended to represent the sea and as you can see ended up being nothing like the sea at all.
The direction the picture took might actually symbolize Google Wave in some way. You can't really be sure what the end-result will be in a collaborative effort but it will probably be greater that the sum of its parts.

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