Google waves
 

So, who here's on the waves?

What are your opinions about it so far?

But more importantly: Who wants an invite? :p

Holy crap. Your the third person I know that has received/mentioned signing up to Wave in the last hour.

My thoughts:

• I can't work out what the hell it's for
• It's clearly not just an IM thing as it's clumsy trying to use it for that - especially in that I can't just hit enter to finish my message and then automatically start a new one at the bottom.
• It's very laggy on my computer, so my typing appears after a second or two delay.
• It's forcing me to be a better typer, as the other person can see what I'm trying in realtime.
• What the hell is this for?!

Sounds cool. I'd never heard of it before.

If you have enough invitations, you can send me one: munchilado ATTACK gmail DOTTY COMMERE.

Just got this recently thanks to a friend of a schoolfriend. So far I've only chatted with Xav and Nate. Still trying to find a reason to remember to sign in every day, but it's still novel and fun. I can see all the potential applications... in theory. All the extra clicking while IMing is making my mouse perspire.

Invite me =D

What is it? ... Sounds like fun :p.... If anyone feels like it I'd like to try it out too.. Is it just a chatting program?

EDIT: Reading about it.. seems to go beyond just being a chat program...

looks cool just joined Gmail for it , cause i know it will be flooded with oddworld forumites.

How many invites does one get?

@everyone
Before You join this hype, think about this: "Do you really need it?". It's highly possible, that you have ICQ, Skype, 3 e-mail addresses, etc. So why the heck you need another program in your SysTray? There are more reasons to let it go.

Although it's not bad to just try it. But I don't think it's going to be so "sUp4 DUpA @wes0mE", that somebody with internet, 3 communication programs and lots of other crap would really need it.

Hmm. What is it? :p

I use gmail in case anyone wants to hit me up. :D

Ok so I've had my account for a number of months, and I still don't get wtf this crap is. Is it like twitter x instant messaging? If so do not want

It makes me think of gobalization... will it incorporate MSN?

I'm fine with MSN, and everyone else has it too so to hell with Google and all of it's bumfuckery.

MSN's okay... I guess. I frigging hate Windows Live Messenger though. It's so glossy, and it has ads everywhere.

Anyway, if you would read about Google Waves, it's nothing like MSN. It's more like Etherpad or something. And I WANT IT.

If anyone has an invitations, my email's up there.

It's not in your SysTray; you need a browser window open.

This is not a replacement for MSN/AIM/ICQ. It's something new and quite different. I'm not yet sure what it's for, but my best guess is that it would be good for a collaborative group discussion.

So it's like... what... online meeting project workspace or something? You can work on stuff while others watch in real time and point things out? I don't get it :S

I see alot of "wtf"s and not alot of "this is awesome"s.
Not really the best review.

I wouldn't mind trying it, but is it invite-only or something?

Google's PR crew must be on vacation.

Pretty much my analysis also. My vibe is that Google created a technology, put it out in to the world and said "Here, work out what it's for".

It's just like gmail was at first; each person with an account can invite a certain number of friends.

Oh, I see. Do you need a Gmail to get it?

You need a google account.

I have a Gmail account... If someone wants to send me an invite, I'd be more than happy to accept :) Given my education that I'm at, it's a good idea for us to stay updated with the trends of the internet o.o So I'd appreciate if anyone can 'get me in' :p

We study such things as social websites, communication and yada yada.

I bet it's one of those things that will die out really quickly, or some dude finds some amazing use for it that makes it immensely popular... Or it will sort of just become a things that's just there... Like MSN/Live spaces... Does anyone actually use those?

Those lazy Puerto Ricans...

i have 8 wave invites, shout out if you need one.

Me! Me! Me! :D OOh! Pick me!

Think about Twitter though; it started off as an incredibly simple bit of technology that hardly anyone was using. Then the userbase developed certain habits (like hashtags and referring to people with the @). And, after many years, the whole thing exploded and everyone was using it.

the first person i ever saw using a twitter was stephen fry, because somebody told me he was twittering from new zealand. this was february (?) of this year, and i thought it seemed in it's infancy then, but it started in 2006 o.O

More like twatter...

*yuck yuck yuck*

Or titter

Nyuk nyuk nyuk.

The first time I heard it mentioned was in at uni in early 2007, when we were given a talk about things that could be done with XML.


I just thought of the one advantage Google Wave has over MSN: it's tough in MSN when a topic of conversation meanders, or when two topics of conversation happen at the same time. In Wave, you can reply to specific messages and it places your reply right after it, indented.

/me shouts out that he needs an invite.

It sounds pretty cool from what I've read. I want it.

I have it and don't use it.

Hm.. I have it now too (Thanks Leto! =D )... But uh... I don't really have any contacts who have it now X(!! I need people... I guess I'll need to force it down on people now.

Seems interesting and I do want to try it out, but I'm not exactly sure how this all works out with the invitations.

Give me an invite, then.


EDIT: AAAhhh, T-Nex and ASR posted.

So, me and my mates found a reasonable use for it. We currently discuss stuff via email, usually beginning with a proposal for some activity, leading on to discussion about that activity and then devolving in to other discussions, links that someone found on the internet or random jokes. Wave is good because the discussions can branch but still be kept track of and you can easily go back and see the history without having to search through old emails. As plans change, the original posts can be updated so potentially confusing outdated information is kept to a minimum. Also, they have a nifty 'Yes/No/Maybe' applet that's good for these sorts of organisational things.


Plus, I just got one of the most awesome error messages of all time. See the attachment.

That was the error message, or close to it, that showed up when Google first showed Wave to the world. Glad they kept it.

I got an invite from someone else. The "New Wave" button doesn't work.