Any spare invites anyone? If it helps, I promise you don't actually have to talk to me on it. :P

Let me know your email address and I'll send one over

That was kind of the point of this thread Alex

PM on its way.

Steve

I have a few invites going if anyone else needs one. Just pm your details.

I'm now sorted :woot:

Thanks Alex

Steve

stephen.ward[at]googlewave[dot]com

If anyone feels so inclined

Just what the world really needed, another social networking site ....

Just what this thread needed.. ... another complete misunderstanding of what google wave is supposed to do

I can understand why you might think that Nick, but it's not

Steve

I've got some invites now, let me know or post here I'll see what I can do.

Colin does that include the old fella?

Allllllll aboard the briskoda wave train!

Edited 12 November, 200916 yr by apinner

OK, so it's a combination of a instant message client and social networking and online conferencing. Like all those things, it relies on people being online at the same time as each other, yet it touts itself as a replacement for email. It's also only open to those with accounts on Wave - like MSN is only for people on MSN, and doesn't interact with Google chat, or Yahoo IM, or any other combination. Because it's Google, no doubt millions of people will like it, just as millions won't. I have a Gmail account, but I don't really like the way they do email. Perhaps they made it look deliberately bad, to make Wave look better

Edited 12 November, 200916 yr by ncarring

it relies on people being online at the same time as each other

Wrong

Wave - like MSN is only for people on MSN, and doesn't interact with Google chat, or Yahoo IM, or any other combination.

Wrong. It's an open standard built on top of XMPP. Anyone can run a wave server and have it communicate with anyone else's, including Google's. Wave can also bridge to other platforms such as Google chat (also based on XMPP, previously Jabber), MSN (concievably anyway), Twitter, Facebook, etc. Anyone can build plugins for it.

I have a Gmail account, but I don't really like the way they do email. Perhaps htey made it look deliberately bad, to make Wave look better

What don't you like about Gmail?

Edited 12 November, 200916 yr by wega3k

Wow, you love telling people they're wrong, don't you!

I'm not a web developer, so what protocol their messages are based on, I admit is not a strong point of mine. However I don't see lots of other Wave services about to use instead of Google, unless you happen to know different?

Perhaps you could explain how playing games together (apart from things that involve a long time between turns) can be accomplished without both parties being online at once, or how a "conversation" is actually a conversation without the parties being present to respond immediately?

I read an explanation page about Wave, and it majored on the fact that email is an outdated medium and how much better Wave would be. Fine. Each has their place, imho. I can't see my company suddenly subscribing to Wave to replace all the business email we get through.

I have used Google chat with about 2 people (the only ones I know who also have Gmail accounts). It's pretty poor when compared with the other IM clients. I use online conferencing products at work. I don't like them either, much. Lots of sitting around computers wearing uncomfortable headsets or shouting at laptop microphones, struggling to make technology do what could be accomplished face to face in a tenth of the time. It has to be done, though, since we span the globe.

Gmail is just like email used to be - text based, disorganised, just plain clunky. I realise it's partly because it's a web paradigm, but most other webmail clients are far prettier and some are a lot more functional. That's just Google's way. After all it's free, so one can't complain too much

If someone wants to invite me, I'll happily have a look and eat those of my words which are technically wrong. Those that are personal opinion, I'm entitled to.

One of the reasons it's much more elegant than email, is the possibility to respond to a particular point made in a wave, in situ and it's highlighted to the other participants. In the email paradigm, the person responding would have to quote and reply inline. Once the email has bounced back and forth between a few people a few times, it can get long and messy. All that Re: Re: Re: >>> business. In Wave, you don't get that duplication and mess.

or how a "conversation" is actually a conversation without the parties being present to respond immediately?

Have you never had an email conversation?

Complete Guide To Google Wave (supposedly)

The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave

for all you sad lot :P

Well I got in. I have a grand total of 4 (yes FOUR) people I can "wave" with one of whom is our Col (thanks for the invite Col), and one of whom I've never heard of before (anybody wanna own up to being Richard Dennys?)

So basically I have an email system with an empty inbox, and nobody to talk to. Somewhat underwhelmed, so far :P

Is the end of the world nigh or are google just messing with us, i fired up wave this evening and was shocked to spot in the bottom left of my firefox window.. 'loading data from wave-skynet.google.*'

/me starts to hum the tune to terminator.. hmm hmm hmmmmmmm hmm hmmm hmmmm

I have been blessed with invites if anyone wants one, send me a pm with your email address in.

Have just been given even more invites, sure i cant tempt anyone else?

Ace. Finally got my first batch of invites to give out, just this minute. Cheers for prompting me to look Alex.

Lol, just spunked all my invites in 5 mins.

I'm there. What do I do now..? :confused: