Google Wave Test

This is a test post which is trying to integrate Google Wave into my Wordpress blog. Basically, Google Wave is awesome. Check out the video from that link. Oh, and if you’re keen to see what it looks like on the inside, check this out: http://www.earngey.info/wave/wave_base.png.
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Developer Impressions Of Google Wave: “Real-Time Email On Crack”

What is it? Google’s answer to Twitter? Email and IM replacement? Personal communications and collaboration platform? These were questions and characterizations that emerged as Google announced Wave at the company’s May developer event in San Francisco. (Here’s a bit more context from my related post at the press conference.)

It’s a shapeshifter, a new species and something of a rorschach test for people because it crosses boundaries and isn’t easily defined.

Google Wave’s API has recently become available to developers. And now some first “hands on” impressions are out. Ben Rometsch wrote about his initial experience with Wave — “real-time email. Oon crack”:

Trying to describe it to my wife last night I came out with “It’s a cross between Messenger, Email and Facebook”. I still think that’s accurate, but it didn’t really help her! Once you start actually using it things slowly fall into place in your mind, but until you do so, it’s pretty hard to explain or understand.

I think it’s more accurate to say that it’s a bunch of shared IM conversations that are organised like email messages and stored on the server for time immemorial. The upshot of all this is that you can use it in a variety of different ways depending on what you want to achieve. It serves as an IM, IRC and Email server, but you can also do things that you might not necessarily first think of, such as using it as a simple Wiki with shared editing and history . . .
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Google Wave Public Beta Confirmed

The hype around Google Wave has been somewhat lost after the announcement of Chrome OS but given it aims to revolutionise how we use email and comes from the brains behind Google Maps we should sit up and pay attention - especially now...

The search giant has confirmed that public beta testing will begin in the next two months:

"We plan to start extending the Google Wave preview beyond developers on September 30th," said Google Wave product manager San Peterson. "This will take place on wave.google.com rather than the separate "sandbox" instance we are currently using, and we plan to involve about 100,000 users. In addition to the developers already using Wave, we will invite groups of users from the hundreds of thousands who offered to help report bugs when they signed up on wave.google.com."




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Get in line for Google Wave

Google Wave, the multimedia collaboration and conversation tool, will be opened to about 100,000 users starting September 30th. Participants will be drawn from those who sign up and agree to report bugs.
Google Wave, announced in early June, is intended to permit new forms of computer-enabled communications.

Rather than communication taking place only by e-mail, instant message, or exchange of files, a "wave" aggregates ongoing conversation in multiple formats into what has been called a "true multi-user distributed online version-controlled collaboration ."

So far, the Google Wave team has distributed around 6,000 developer accounts and are fielding a further 20,000 requests from developers.

But the team is getting ready for a much wider test, involving about 100,000 users.

A post on the Google Wave Developer Blog reads, "we will invite groups of users from the hundreds of thousands who offered to help report bugs when they signed up on wave.google.com."

The form for getting notified when Google Wave is available is here .

Check the box to promise you'll report bugs and give feedback, and you could be one of the lucky thousands who get to see what a "wave" really is in practice.
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Google will send out 100,000 invites to its Wave platform in September.

Google Wave will be unveiled to 100,000 users at the end of September,

Announced in May, the real-time communications platform is expected to roll social networking and other web activity into one Google-owned place. At the moment, it's open to just 6,000 developers.

In a blog post on its Wave developer blog, Google said it would open that up to 20,000 more developers over the next month or so, and add 100,000 invited general users by 30 September - you can request an invite here.

"In addition to the developers already using Wave, we will invite groups of users from the hundreds of thousands who offered to help report bugs when they signed up on wave.google.com," wrote Google Wave product manager Dan Peterson.

On that date, Google Wave will also move out of its testing "sandbox" and onto its own domain at Wave.Google.com, the post said.

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What’s The Deal with Google Voice and Google Wave?

Google’s product blog is now in the top 10 at Technorati (#6 at time of this post). What’s driving this traffic? First is Google Voice which comes with a free phone number and digital voice mail. Second is Google Wave which is a real time collaboration tool yet to be released to the public.
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Google Wave Opens to Select Users this Fall

Are you looking forward to the day when Google Wave, Mountain View's all-in-one communication and collaboration tool, goes public? Well, for a select group of users, that day is coming this fall. Google announced in a blog post earlier this week it will open up Wave to 100,000 people on September 30. To get on the early bird list, you have to volunteer to be part of the Google Wave testing community.

Google didn't say whether it's too late to sign up now, but if you're interested you might as well try. Just head over to Google Wave's Website, provide your e-mail address, and make sure you check off the option that says, "Enlist me! I'll report bugs and give feedback (e.g. user surveys)." You also need to let Google know how you want to use Wave, and then write a short message to the Wave development team -- Google says haiku, sonnets, and ASCII art submissions will be accepted.
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