google wave invite or nomination?
October 2, 2009 | In: random thoughts, technology
So I woke up yesterday to a bright shiny invite to Google wave in my gmail account. This was a complete shock to me as I’ve basically lumped Google wave into the same category as leprechauns, unicorns and fairy godparents. I signed up for their beta program so long ago at this point I had written it off. That being said I’m not quite sure why I got one and other people that I know that signed up about the same time as me didn’t. I’ve read that you had to sign up in the first few days of the beta site being live and be sure to check all the boxes and write something to the team about why you should get one (all of which i did). Who knows…
Anyway me being the generous person that I am (lol) I sent out the bulk of my personal invites to fiends and coworkers. Lets face it waving with yourself is a bit of a bore. Sadly though 24 hours + later and none of the invites I’ve sent out yet have been delivered. According to the invite others wave “Invitations will not be sent immediately. We have a lot of stamps to lick.” The weird thing is that when you send out what they are calling invites the user shows up in the invite window as “nominated”. Exactly what does that mean? Sorry if I’m being dense here but those two terms don’t really go hand in hand.
So suffice it to say I’m a little frustrated with the whole process. It’s like having a shiny new bike and not being able to ride it. Sure I would wave with strangers for the sake of waving but that’s a tad anticlimactic to be honest.
As for wave itself it seems pretty cool. Still definitely some bugs to work out but it def looks very promising. Took a sec before I figured out about the extensions setup which really is whats interesting about wave. I mean the email meets IM setup of wave is cool unto itself but it really gets fun when you start embedding more dynamic components into the conversation. Last night I played with the google maps extension which was pretty cool and started looking into the 6 rounds extension (a multiuser video chat service).
This would all be allot more compelling if I had more people to test it out with. Hopefully they get the invites sent out sooner then later. Fingers crossed. Has anyone out there gotten invites sent from friends yet? Leave me a comment and let me know.
