Okay -- so who wants to play with Google Wave?

[jducoeur]

Thanks to fairdice, I've now got a Wave account, and am starting to read into it. My initial reaction is that it's not really trying to do *quite* the same things as CommYou, although it's possible that it is close enough that it will suck away all the energy in the space. That is, the focus is notably different, but the overlap in ideas is non-trivial -- they clearly came to some of the same conclusions I did about how an interactive system ought to work. We'll see; I'm trying not to get excessively stressed about it, although the competition inevitably is on my mind.

Really, though, I need to do some experimenting here, to get a better idea of how it works, and Wave is fundamentally about multi-user, particularly real-time. The high concept (which is much clearer now that I can get my hands on it) is that they've re-envisioned email as a real-time, interactive process. The UI is reminiscent of Gmail, but the "messages" are live, interactive objects that everybody involved can update and modify in real-time. It doesn't appear to be principally a conversation system, or a community system -- rather, it's a co-editing system that happens to have realtime chat embedded in it. (Seriously realtime: the chat is part of the realtime Wave, so you see everyone editing their chat messages as they do so.)

So: who wants to play? If you have Wave, and are interested in playing with it (especially tomorrow, when I'll have more time), please reply or drop me an email. If you are really interested, and want an invite, tell me, but please don't do so *too* casually: I only have a modest number of invite codes, so I want them to go to folks who are going to really kick the tires hard. It appears to be particularly relevant and useful if you have stuff you want to do collaboratively in real-time online -- probably doubly so if you are already used to GMail and Google Docs...

Comments

[vairavi.livejournal.com]

I'm curious, depending on the application of the technology. If you wanted to do something games-related I'd be all over that. I'm VERY curious to explore the SCA teaching potential, as the Core People of the SCA_India list have often fretted about how best to propagate knowledge.

[asim.livejournal.com]

Dagnabit, stop reading my mind. :)

But seriously, this is one of the reasons I'd like one, as well. I'm also about to jump-start a belly dance tech project, and am teaching someone how to take over the site design for a SCA site I maintain -- I think GWave'll be useful in both cases, even if I'll have to pick-and-choose who gets an invite at first.

[mikekn]

I'm also at the very curious level. To that end if you find an extra invite, I'd love to get one.

Anyone thought of a gaming or EK history use for it? That would be a fun experiment.

The only projects I have right now that would fit immediately are work ones. I'd love to try it out with one of our grant projects, but that would require getting several folks here on it.

[ovoro.livejournal.com]

Been trying to get an invite. I'm a programmer and i'm really interested in the tech and how it can be used in our business. So if you can spare one invite then that would be awesome. I know with one invite I can pretty much get my entire IT crew setup by sharing around invites around the office to give the system a real go. If can spare one, please send one sketchpunk [at] gmail [dot] com.

Thanks

[the-nita.livejournal.com]

If you have an invite, please?

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

I'm quite curious. We used to use SubEthaEdit in a similar fashion, but it didn't have the history/portability bits.

To really test it we'd need some project or topic, tho.

[laurion]

I'll play. I'm more than happy to kick tires and check the teeth. And mix metaphors.

[laurion]

Oh, and here's a fun starting point. http://lifehacker.com/5372853/the-first-google-wave-search-you-must-know

[snarkyman.livejournal.com]

Can I please have an invitation?

[blue-budgie.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'd love an invite if you have any to spare... I've been dying to have a closer look at this, especially since it was formulated in my city (Sydney) and I'm a google docs/gmail addict!

Anyway my email is jessica.clearwater AT gmail DOT COM if you have any spares left after the non-random people that you actually KNOW get theirs :)

[kihou.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested in an invite. I have some intention of building a gateway between it and Zephyr (MIT's chat system), though I always end up with more projects I want to do than I actually do, so who knows.