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Google Wave opens to 100,000 users today
According to the official Google blog, 100,000 invitations to Google's most hotly-anticipated new service, Google Wave, are going out today. Wave is being touted as a communication tool that reimagines the way email should work. When Download Squad took a look at Wave back in May, Lee explained it this way: So, who's getting invited to use this next-generation communication tool? Well, it helps if you signed up early for an invitation and wrote the Wave team a message offering to give feedback. If you're a developer who's been using the developer preview of Wave, you might also get an invitation, and some are going out to paying customers of Google Apps.Create a Wave, add people to it, toss in some gadgets, feeds, and photos, and mix with a rich text editor. You'll see new content in near-real time as your friends add it, and you can even hit the rewind button and watch your Wave evolve from scratch.
In their blog post, the Google Wave folks stress that – if you do land an invitation – you're not going to be playing with a finished product. Wave is still missing some crucial features, and bugs are going to be par for the course until the team starts using the feedback from these 100,000 new users to start identifying problems. Unfortunately, you won't be able to directly invite friends to Wave, but you will be able to nominate them for invitations.
Do you have a Wave invitation yet? What do you think of the service so far?
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Maxwell Ash said 11:22AM on 9-30-2009
If anyone has any spare invites, they would be gratefully received; m a s h 4 t {at} g m a i l . c o m.
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Josh said 11:57AM on 9-30-2009
Read the article. No one can invite you, just nominate you for an invite.
"Unfortunately, you won't be able to directly invite friends to Wave, but you will be able to nominate them for invitations."
Maxwell Ash said 12:00PM on 9-30-2009
That is different to the BBC report I read, they said that you could nominate 5 people to join the wave beta.
Thijs Haenen said 12:55PM on 9-30-2009
So then it's still nominating, not inviting.
Maxwell Ash said 1:13PM on 9-30-2009
The way the BBC worded it inferred that it would be an invite, after all, what use is wave without friends to use it with.
Chedstone said 11:34AM on 9-30-2009
same here. i would appreciate being nominated for an invitation if anyone reading this has a Google Wave account already! roymckenzie {AT} gmail . c o m
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ben said 11:35AM on 9-30-2009
Invite me please!!!
big brother 0074 gmail email!!!
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darley said 11:42AM on 9-30-2009
Yes, invites appreciated here: briandarley {at) gmail.com
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Dan said 11:42AM on 9-30-2009
I hope you guys don't get flooded with spam since you're posting your email address out there.
Ya might want to make a temporary one that's not associated with your main account and post that address. Unless you already have, at which point I say, "Bravo, good thinking! :P"
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Scruffy Bob said 11:42AM on 9-30-2009
Shoo, beggars! Get off my lawn!
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Scruffy Bob said 11:46AM on 9-30-2009
Oh, also, email scrapers already know how to read things like "briandarley {at) gmail.com". At least gmail has good spam filtering :)
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Charax said 11:50AM on 9-30-2009
already on the signup list, I'm sure they'll get to me eventually.
if not, if someone would please invite me at
charax22 at yahoo dot co dot uk
it would be appreciated. Then again, I'd have nobody to wave *with*, so seems perhaps a little pointless...
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adrianlat said 12:44PM on 9-30-2009
Has someone received an invite? This article says that Google will send them at 4pm..
http://www.insightts.com/blog/?p=7233
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Dan said 3:09PM on 9-30-2009
Yes, 4 PM BST. Which is a UK time zone. At present, it's 8:08 PM there, meaning that if you were gonna get one, you would have gotten it already. :P
Bryan Price said 3:03PM on 9-30-2009
No invitation in my inbox yet. :(
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BobDigi said 4:16PM on 10-01-2009
I want an invite! michael ad @ g mail .com
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