Google have started sending out its 100,000 invites to Google wave, if you havent received yours (assuming you signed up) be patient as these will be sent out in batches.
If you dont receive an invite and really want one visit ebay as some enterprising individuals have started selling invites ($70 was the last bid I saw)
For those of you wondering why Google has picked up there surfboard and taken to the Austrailan waves (Wave was developed in Sydney Australia), have a read below.
What is Google Wave?
If you dont receive an invite and really want one visit ebay as some enterprising individuals have started selling invites ($70 was the last bid I saw)
For those of you wondering why Google has picked up there surfboard and taken to the Austrailan waves (Wave was developed in Sydney Australia), have a read below.
What is Google Wave?
Detailed demo http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html#video
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Google Wave is a real-time communication platform. It combines aspects of email, instant messaging, wikis, web chat, social networking, and project management to build one elegant, in-browser communication client. You can bring a group of friends or business partners together to discuss how your day has been or share files.
Google Wave has a lot of innovative features, but here are just a few:
- Real-time: In most instances, you can see what someone else is typing, character-by-character.
- Embeddability: Waves can be embedded on any blog or website.
- Applications and Extensions: Just like a Facebook() application or an iGoogle gadget, developers can build their own apps within waves. They can be anything from bots to complex real-time games.
- Wiki functionality: Anything written within a Google Wave can be edited by anyone else, because all conversations within the platform are shared. Thus, you can correct information, append information, or add your own commentary within a developing conversation.
- Open source: The Google Wave code will be open source, to foster innovation and adoption amongst developers.
- Playback: You can playback any part of the wave to see what was said.
- Natural language: Google Wave can autocorrect your spelling, even going as far as knowing the difference between similar words, like “been” and “bean.” It can also auto-translate on-the-fly.
- Drag-and-drop file sharing: No attachments; just drag your file and drop it inside Google Wave and everyone will have access.
While these are only a few of the many features of Google Wave, it’s easy to see why people are extremely excited.
