Renzatic on 28/11/2009 at 06:27
HEY EVERYONE! I got on board this awesome new Wave thing, and think it's neat as hell. It's like your email, but fancier and paced for my hectic modern way of life. I already feel considerably more full of myself just from the few quick bouts I've had with it.
Anyway, most of my friends are luddites, so I've still got 4 invites waiting to be used. They're not sent out immediately, but you'll get it eventually once you're in the queue. If anyone's interested, just post here or PM me.
Aja on 28/11/2009 at 06:43
What the hell, I'll try it (if your PM box hasn't filled up already).
edit - I suppose in sixteen minutes your pm box probably hasn't filled up already
Renzatic on 28/11/2009 at 06:57
PM me your email address and you too...will be Waving.
Edit: wow, you can play Sudoku in this thing. Google thought of everything.
bob_doe_nz on 28/11/2009 at 08:34
I have a dozen to give away. Send me a PM if you want one.
Edit:
I need a contact email addy to send the invite to. :rolleyes:
thefonz on 28/11/2009 at 08:40
I'm on Wave already.
Its ok; not enough people in my contacts list to make it worthwhile and until google integrate gmail with it then I cant really see the point of it.
Renzatic on 28/11/2009 at 09:07
Yeah, I've tried getting people to send me messages to my Wave account, and even emailing myself at one point...no go. Right now, without proper email capabilities, it's nothing more than a cool toy. On a good note, you start swapping messages back and forth with someone with a Wave account, and you can easily see the nice advantages it has over regular email.
The best way to describe it is saying it's the nasty lovechild of a forum, Facebook, a chatroom, and an email client all rolled into a clean, streamlined package. I can see it being a wonderful little tool for organizing big group projects, video conferences, or all other kinds of neat online communications type stuff.
Also, since I'm on a big gay for Google kick at the moment, I just got through playing around with Chromium OS. It is exactly, and I mean exactly, like the Chrome browser you can download now, but with an extra dialog box sporting about 6 or so options for OS specific stuff. Oh yeah, and a clock where the minimize/maximize/close buttons usually are...can't forget that. It's the defacto "hey granny you want a computer that won't get viruses and you can't fuck up at all even if you tried" OS. A neat idea, most definitely. But I probably won't ever use it.
heywood on 28/11/2009 at 14:52
Quote Posted by Renzatic
The best way to describe it is saying it's the nasty lovechild of a forum, Facebook, a chatroom, and an email client all rolled into a clean, streamlined package. I can see it being a wonderful little tool for organizing big group projects, video conferences, or all other kinds of neat online communications type stuff.
Wave is no replacement for Facebook. Facebook already offers chat, messaging, forum, plus the social networking stuff and picture hosting that Wave doesn't do. The main attraction of Wave appears to be the collaboration features, but they're more useful in a business environment than a social one. So I'm surprised that Google isn't marketing this more as an enterprise email/collaboration system.
Nameless Voice on 29/11/2009 at 03:58
I got an invite, but I couldn't quite figure out what it was supposed to do, was too lazy to watch the video, and it doesn't work in Opera anyway.
Kolya on 29/11/2009 at 04:29
don't leave me waitin'
fett on 29/11/2009 at 05:20
Okay, got it, but there's only two people on there with me. :(
Seems pretty cool though - I don't think I'll get a proper feel for it until there's more people using it. I can definitely see where it could replace traditional e-mail, if for nothing else than it's interface and flexibility.
