"I wanted to test out two things; how well it would work with 200+ members in a single wave, and if it could work as a crowd sourced news aggregator"
- Mitchell McKenna
from Bookmarklet
it was pretty overhyped as a social networking tool, which it's really not...
- Bill Kinney
Why are you bored? I can't leave my fingers from it... It is the greatest Website that I found for a long time. It really isn't a social network. But it is social like a forum. The Public waves are bit like a mashup of a Forum and Wikipedia. You ask a Question invite a few people and wait for your answers to roll in. Or you keep answering to the Waves in your Inbox. There are about 13...
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- JoeD
I can get answers to questions faster by outright Googling them than sending out a wave. I think that's where I'm just plain confused as to the actual usefulness of Wave for the average internet user. Unless you're talking about poll-type questions, which I don't ask because usually I don't care.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I'd like an invite if anyone has one to spare. aditya(at)auburnalum(dot)org. TIA
- Adi
Adi, I just sent you one, and War Eagle!
- John Craft
"Wave is not social in the same way that Twitter, FF are. They tend to follow what I think of as the cocktail party version of social. You walk from group to group at a party, glibly taking part in conversations, holding cocktail party court. Wave is more like a business meeting version of social. A group has a specific problem they want to solve or a goal in mind. They meet, for a time...
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- Brian Sullivan
Really? What problem or goal could I possibly require a group of random acquaintances for solving? I don't see the practical application. Google Wave sounds better suited for people who are already working together in a team environment and need a convenient way to brainstorm and groupthink together or within the same industry. For average people, I can't begin to think of something I'd need to gather all my contacts together to help me solve.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
@tinypants - the only thing I could think of for my group of friends: a good solution to a forum-based RPG. Yeah, I'd use it to game :) (not that any of us have it yet, but still.)
- Jennifer Dittrich
tinypants -- not sure I understand your comment on a "random" group of acquaintances. If you assume that Wave will help you much there I think you misunderstand its possible uses. Have a cocktail party instead. The reason I think Wave will be a success is that corporations rarely want to pay to host a cocktail party but are usually eager to host business meetings that solve business problems.
- Brian Sullivan
Brian is absolutley right. It is more like buisness problem solving. But it is not only buisness. Sometimes you can't find a solution for your problem on Google, rarley but true. This is where you normaly would go to a forum or IRC. Now Wave is a mashup of it. You put Your Problem in the first blip. Discuss it below and work together on the problem in the first blip. You can invite your...
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- JoeD
@Brian: Ah, thank you for responding with much snark. Makes me feel good to know that I can be so soundly insulted for disliking Google Wave. When I said "random" I was inferring that the people I am typically linked to on any given service are friends and acquaintances I've made from all areas of life, not just a specific industry or company; for me this also includes Wave. Involving...
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- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
"Below is hopefully the most thorough and complete list of Google Wave bots on the internet. If you find any errors or something that is missing, please feel free to edit this page. Editing is as easy as clicking the edit link at the very top, modifying the text and clicking "Save Page". Do not worry about formatting, all you need to do is put a blank line before and after each item you add and someone else can fix the formatting for you later. Please enjoy this list and share it with others."
- Holger Eilhard
from Bookmarklet
"This morning, Google is making a slight update to Wave to help users unclog their inbox from public waves. Previously, you could see public waves in your inbox, which was fairly annoying. Now for a wave to appear in your inbox, you need to “follow” the wave."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Google was good to me. I have 8 Invitations to give out. First come first serve. Comment on this thread if you want an nomination. !!!!!PLEASE ONLY IF YOU NOT ALREADY REQUESTED ONE!!!!
A good friend of mine is trying to write a grad paper on Wave and would really love an invite... please DM me for his email if you still have some left Ahsan
- Chris Heath
Muneebhussain51@gmail.com Thank you in advance Ahsan Ali
- Muneeb Hussain
"It's still early days for Google Wave but already there are a large number of Gadgets and Robots being developed. These are all 'beta' gadgets"
- Mitchell McKenna
from Bookmarklet
Kol, where are you seeing your invites? I have never seen any new invites come through on my account.
- Travis Koger
Travis, it's in a wave, try searching for "Invite others to Google Wave".
- Kol Tregaskes
Please send my an invite to mahatmafatal@gmail.com
- Julian Ruppel
from iPhone
Please send me a invite to adataghost@gmail.com.
- adataghost
Nope nothing there, guess I haz no invites to send. :(
- Travis Koger
me pls to pengwen.not.penguin@gmail.com
- Parvez Halim
well no invites for me, so any chance you could send to the following: :) redsnapperuk at gmail.com, nilsson.veness at gmail.com? Thanks if you can Kol.
- Travis Koger
awesome, may I have one please, crazycow@gmail.com
- Glenn Graham
Please send me a invite to m.krycki@youknowwhere
- jojojo
Hi, May I have one please ? quilovnic[At]gmail[dot]com ? Thanks
- Jonathan
Kol, yeah I meant if you could send invites to my friends who I would like to be online, but cannot give them invites myself. nilsson.veness@gmail.com & redsnapperuk@gmail.com... thanks.
- Travis Koger
OK, all gone. huseyin, sorry you're email address didn't go through either. Daniel, sorry you missed out. Try having a look around though, lots of people have invites to give out now.
- Kol Tregaskes
I've started my very own serious google wave project. Anyone know a county clerk or local registrar working in the US?? https://wave.google.com/wave...
GWave = a very confusing solution built to solve no particular problem
- Dave Pook
@Dave I bet there are many tools in your daily life you can't imagine any particular use for you. This doesn't mean it isn't usefull for others. Did you ever tried to send a Math formular over an IM? Colaborating?!
- JoeD
If you have any invites, feel free to share :). (antonyat AT gmail DOT com)
- Antony Jepson
Well, the only one that seems to have a handle on it is Samuel L. Jackson but I couldn't stay long though he apologized for his unseemly language when explaining how to use it. :) Try this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Melanie Reed
Google Wave to me its just a bit more complicated than Adobe connect. The main issue you want to resolve is remote communication with workmates in a virtual office. Visuals/and audio take care of the mimic but you need a record. So why not just make small visual records of meetings? Not mentally challenging enough for you? Well, then let's throw FF, email, chat, FB, and file sharing all together and see what happens.
- Melanie Reed
Hopefully this site can provide resources to help people get started: I Created a community around #googlewave - searching and rating of public waves, user lists, vids, forums with bot and gadget lists - check it out at http://www.igooglewavers.com and please feel free to contribute to the site and community.
- Justin H. Johnson
I've noticed that in Google Wave, I've been locked out for a long time with this error message "You are not a participant in this wave". Also, I can't even seem to be able to open my Gmail normally; only in HTML-only version.
But I realized today that the actual problem was Google Chrome. This only happens in this browser, and it's fine in others like Firefox. Kinda ironic.
- Maxamad
I've never had any such issues with Chrome, Wave and gmail.
- Christopher A Carr
Chrome is slowest, crashiest browser I recall using, for me. Are you on the bleeding edge developer's version of Chrome or the normal one that's supposed to work?
- SuezanneC Baskerville
I'm on the latest dev and it is the complete opposite of "crashiest browser."
- Christopher A Carr
Chrome works fine (and usually faster) for js-intensive sites (and pretty much anysite). I don't think it's crashy, but it's just perplexing that it has these issues with gWave and Gmail.
- Maxamad
Well, I'm using Chrome 3.0.195.27 and Chromium 4.0.202.0 (Developer Build 23181). In Chromium, interestingly, I can't even login. I'll try updating to the latest for both of them and see if that makes any difference.
- Maxamad
I noticed that you're an "Amazigh" too! Since when? ;)
- directeur
Since I discovered awesome Gnawa and Tamazight music!
- Maxamad
Ah! You discovered Gnawa! Great! Welcome aboard :)
- directeur
Hmm -- bad enough that IE8 has to be massaged to run Wave but it doesn't work correctly -- attaching files fails. Getting Wave into most enterprises is going to be tough if it doesn't work on IE.
I don't know directeur -- who should be blamed?
- Brian Sullivan
It seems just not to work -- lots of issues. Unless Google can get this straightened out it will be difficult for Wave to penetrate many large companies that for better or worse are committed to IE.
- Brian Sullivan
Brian, I too don't know. I just have a feeling that IE8 is. Why? Opera, Safari and Firefox are well supported and knowing IE's history I wouldn't be surprised.
- directeur
IE8 is massaged by installing "Chrome frame" -- it is in "Chrome frame" (which is essentially Chrome ActiveX installed in IE) that it fails -- it is in the Google product that it fails. Assigning fault though is moot -- if it doesn't work on the browser used by the largest percentage of potential users then it will fail.
- Brian Sullivan
I have yet to get Google Wave-someone nominated me and I should receive it any day now -any one know what the time span is from nomination to actually receiving the invite in the mail ?
- Kirk Fontaine