Several people have asked how to share a wave on social network sites like Twitter, Facebook etc. There isn't anything in the user interface of the Wave client to share a wave with the rest of the world. The URL changes when you navigate in the client and this URL could be used as a perma link to share. Another question asked is how to find the Wave ID to use when you want to link a selected text to another wave using the "Link" tool in the toolbar instead of drag & drop of a wave from the search t o the blip you are editing.

How you could do it today

• Find the wave you want to share
• Click on "Inbox" to shorten the URL (removing your search from the URL if you searched for your wave)
• Copy the URL (you can remove the last part .N .1 .2 .3 etc)
• Use a URL shortener or if the client of your choice supports URL shorting just paste it

The new solution

InitialBLIP have made available a beta of our new short URL service for your waves which shorten your waves to wtr.im links. The wave "Wave Extensions by InitialBLIP" goes from https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252BNEXyuLo0G to http://wtr.im/NEXyuLo0G, sure it could be even be a couple of character shorter with an usual short URL algorithm, but that wouldn't give you the Wave ID from the link.

If the wavetrim is allready added to a wave its just to click on copy to clipboard or use one of the share icons to share short URLs to waves.

So what does it look like at moment? (See the image below.)

The wavetrim supports copying the URL to clipboard, share it to Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Reddit and it also supports contextual text selection a feature described by WithWaves

To read more about wavetrim/wtr.im or install the extension go to http://wtr.im/NEXyuLo0G