Google Wave

[Leafster]

Where do you apply??

Here: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignup/

 

[ivebeenhigh]

they have had over a million applications and there are 100,000 invites.

that said if anyone has a spare and wants to invite me

 

[AKA pseudonym]

btw: The witching hour has struck! 4pm innit?
anybody get any joy...

mine must still be in the post

Your Google Account has
not yet been activated
for Google Wave.

 

[Gromit]

It will be like the gmail beta and slowly grow as people send invites out like pyramid sellers.

Although gmail started with 10 invites not 5. Then one day went mad and made it 100 invites. Then eventually you could sign up without invite.

 

[AKA pseudonym]

huh... didnt take long for the sellers to go at it... invites available on Ebay
http://www.garryconn.com/google-wave-invites-now-being-sold-on-ebay.php

feck me theres one going at $2000

eta: lol 4000 now... i reckon them invites arent gonna be so easy to get !

 

[spacemonkey]

There's one google wave invite on ebay....currently at $5,500 with 36 bids and 2 days left!!


If you get 5 invites you could make.....well, a fuck ton of money!

 

[dervish]

I've been chomping at the bit waiting for Wave since the developer preview, invites would be very gratefully accepted. I already have a project at work that could be made much, much easier with the features wave promises.

 

[AKA pseudonym]

There's one google wave invite on ebay....currently at $5,500 with 36 bids and 2 days left!!


If you get 5 invites you could make.....well, a fuck ton of money!

Q: What's the "right" price?
A: If I had a right price in my mind, I would have made a BIN. The response this is getting is ridiculous.

from the comments..

 

[Idaho]

There's one google wave invite on ebay....currently at $5,500 with 36 bids and 2 days left!!


If you get 5 invites you could make.....well, a fuck ton of money!

What kind of a muppet would pay that much? Or anything for that matter. Some people have far too much money and too little sense.

 

[Idaho]

Just looking now - they appear to be spurious bids. It is at $100 now.

 

[AKA pseudonym]

Just looking now - they appear to be spurious bids. It is at $100 now.

maybe he sold the first of his 5 n starting on the next one... i would have bit @ $5000 with still 4 left..

 

[mrsfran]

Is it the case that people can see what you're typing as you write it? I remember when ICQ did this (which makes me very old) and I hated it - everyone able to see your mistakes and aborted jokes.

 

[Gromit]

Is it the case that people can see what you're typing as you write it? I remember when ICQ did this (which makes me very old) and I hated it - everyone able to see your mistakes and aborted jokes.

In the demo they said you could turn that off but in other reports they are still working on allowing you to turn that off.

 

[mrsfran]

Ok, ta, Just watched the 1st 20 mins of the video, looking good so far.

 

[oicur0t]

My boss just told me his contact at google asked if we want any invites. We should have two tomorrow!

So I'll post up a link to my ebay listing tomorrow!

 

[electric.avenue]

I've just put my name on the list to try it. God knows when I'll get one though.

If anyone feels like inviting me, I wouldn't turn them down ...

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

has anyone sat through the uber geek video? I'm about halfway... http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html#video

 

[nick h.]

Channel 4 News is covering it in a few minutes.

 

[ohmyliver]

I've just put my name on the list to try it. God knows when I'll get one though.

If anyone feels like inviting me, I wouldn't turn them down ...

same here, I put my name on the list months ago.... so if anyone's got any invites...

 

[gnoriac]

It will be like the gmail beta and slowly grow as people send invites out like pyramid sellers.

They really fucked up with that approach on Orkut though.

 

[Idaho]

There's one google wave invite on ebay....currently at $5,500 with 36 bids and 2 days left!!


If you get 5 invites you could make.....well, a fuck ton of money!

Auction has been pulled. Looks like there is no market in Wave invites.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

has anyone sat through the uber geek video? I'm about halfway... http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html#video

yes

the two bit's that really got me were the bit with four people editing a document at once (fuck you locking) and the real time translation

 

[salem]

If they could invent something to access all of my email accounts at the same time (work, Yahoo and googlemail) that's free to use then I'd be in like Flynn.

Most email systems have pop3/imap access. I use gmail (other email clients are available!) to aggregate all my different accounts.

I've just watched the video and once you get beyond the whooping it is actually pretty amazing. It's the protocol which is the important bit IMHO, the rest was just demoing what the protocol enables.

I can't be arsed to read how it all works at that level or what the data overheads are going to be, user authentication etc but I'm sure it's been considered.

In relation the the invites thing, as it's open source could someone not just open their own server for access?

The other thing about opening the system up is that there is little in the way of quality control. It's a far more advanced protocol then email and I wonder if the lag on the system via an overloaded 3rd party server might give people an unnecessarily poor impression of the protocol (this is on the massive assumption that it can work as well as demo'd)

 

[Gromit]

It's the protocol which is the important bit IMHO, the rest was just demoing what the protocol enables.

I can't be arsed to read how it all works at that level or what the data overheads are going to be, user authentication etc but I'm sure it's been considered.

Yeah. In simplest terms its taking email which gets fragmented and turned it into communication by mini bulletin boards (with extra bells and whistles). Each mini bulletin board can in theory be embedded into all sorts of webpages that are all communicating to it at once.

I do wonder about the data load on the web if people's Waves are going to be accessed by everyone its sent to, whilst also appearing on their blog and their twitter and their facebook and their Orkut and their etc. etc. Escpecially if they are Waving images. Then when people reply and they include it on their blog and their twitter and their facebook and their Orkut and their etc. etc.

One wave could end up communicating with thousands of sites at once in theory. How are the servers going to handle that?

 

[oicur0t]

I've got my account! Wahoo! (not Yahoo!)

 

[Wintermute]

One wave could end up communicating with thousands of sites at once in theory. How are the servers going to handle that?

I guess... three things. First, the XMPP protocol is probably a bit more efficient than SMTP/POP3/IMAP. That's little more than a guess though. Second, messaging is mostly text-based, so even at fairly massive scaling it's not going to have a huge impact on core internet bandwidth; not like P2P or video streaming. Lastly: this is Google. They have arguably made a phenomenally successful business not from refining search algorithms, but from figuring out how to build server farms on a previously unimaginable scale. I doubt that anything Wave does will have any significant detrimental impact on their own server capacity.

 

[spacemonkey]

I've got my account! Wahoo! (not Yahoo!)

give us an invite!

 

[marty21]

give us an invite!

me too!!! pls x

 

[Idaho]

I've got my account! Wahoo! (not Yahoo!)

Remember you promised me that invite? When you were drunk and that. You said you probably wouldn't remember but that I had to remind you.

 

[Gromit]

I've got my account! Wahoo! (not Yahoo!)

I asked first on this thread. And I promise to be yer best friend evar and use waves to share lots of Internet porn with you and er send you lots of money and introduce you to famous celebs and er stuff.