What all the fuzz about Google Wave?
I first heard about Google Wave from a friend’s blog who dedicated a post seeking for an invite. It’s the first time I heard about it, so I made a little research and found that my friend is not alone in his quest to get a Google Wave invite!
And I said to myself, “What’s all the fuzz about this Google Wave?” Some even made videos on YouTube just to ask for an invite! What is Google Wave really? In my search, I was led to a CNN article which features the genius brothers behind Google Wave.
They are Lars and Jens Rasmussen, the same team who were responsible for today’s Google Maps. An application that saved them from being broke and jobless.
According to them, “Google Wave will kill e-mail.”
Google Wave, even the brothers admit, is hard to describe. It’s your e-mail, instant messaging system and social networking all rolled into one - and then some. And all of this done in real time!
Think of it as chatting through your e-mail, or e-mailing in your chat lines and getting instant replies when your friend is online. As the description says, you can see what you’re friend is typing because they will appear in your screen letter by letter as he/she types them.
Wow! I really feel Jurassic! Considering that I am not even comfortable in instant messaging and then this!
The application even boasts of online translation as you communicate with friends with different languages.
Here are a couple of YouTube presentation to help you understand Google Wave better… I hope…
Unfortunately, Google Wave is available only by invites. Which explains why you can see almost everybody begging for it. According to the Wikipedia entry it was “Initially released only to developers, a “preview release” of Google Wave was extended to nearly 1 million users beginning September 30, 2009, with the initial 100,000 users each allowed to invite up to twenty additional users.”
A very limited number it is. Which makes me want to ask, why boast of a very powerful application when there are only a few people who can use it? Would you be happy to get access knowing that you can’t reach through your friends with it when you didn’t get an invite?
Darn! Now, I want to get an invite!
Still couldn’t get it? You can watch the one-hour video here or read about it from the official Google blog.
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Good thing I did not beg for a Google Wave invite. I just threw a tantrum in my blog. Ahahaha. How about that, Roy.
And for my effort, I was rewarded with a Google Wave invite. A blogging buddy reserved one for me. Perhaps because I made a fool of myself in my post. LOL. Must be because I always leave syrupy comments on her blog on top of voting for her on some Feel Good something contest. Strange things I’d subject myself into just to get the toys I wanted!
And now that I have it and tried it all but once, I feel miserable. Because none of my real, close friends have one. I’ve been having a lonely time surfing the waves. Jesus.
Next time, I’d be careful what I wish for. Ahahaha
Hey, has something changed with your blog? Looks different. Or is it just me?
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Roy Reply:
October 31st, 2009 at 2:30 am
No, nothing’s changed in my blog Jan… at least not yet.
Well, soon they might open up Google Wave to the public, just like what they did with Gmail. In the meantime, try to explore the features of this ‘cool but only restricted to the chosen few’ application, and when the time comes it opens to the public, you can consider yourself a guru
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Comment by jan geronimo — October 30, 2009 @ 11:50 pm