First Impressions

So I’ve been using GoogleWave for a couple days now. Enough to get a bit of a first impression of it and see how it functions basically.

• The whole “see while you type” bit is cool and can be useful. What would be more useful? An option to turn it off. Some people just aren’t comfortable with that and I can understand. Seen more than a few people commenting on this, odds are we’ll see this option soon-ish. Although it really does bring me back to my ICQ days!
• Contacts are still buggy, sometimes have to log in and out to see new contacts listed. Tad annoying, but please let’s remember it’s still seriously under development.
• Wave is not really suited to IMing, except perhaps one on one in a private wave. Tried this out a few times and it’s alright.
  • It can be fun to muck about chatting in a thread with several ppl, but each time you add someone, with the inline threading, it can get really weird to follow. Good for abstract thinkers, a bit fail for the logical types. Personally I have fun with it
• People who try and say “Wave is for business project collab” are just seriously not thinking. I feel like I’ve been given this huge play ground where I can create whatever I want to try.

Aside from all the private Waves I have going, including a proper collab that is the discussion for the D&D game I plan on running via a Wave (see it’s called outside the box, it’s a brilliant place to be.) I’ve joined a few public waves. So far just TV show related ones, Dollhouse and SGU but they’re cool. Meet ppl from all over and chat with them.

Cool fact about Google Wave which really should just solidify it as awesome in everyone’s mind:

The name was inspired by the Firefly television series in which a Wave is an electronic communication (often consisting of a video call or video message)

The crash message of Wave being a popular quotation from the series: “Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!”.

So yeah, epic win. If that’s not enough…

Today I taught a bot some important truths of the universe:

Wave of Awesomeness

So someone out there in the Google world likes me I think. Or thinks that geek girls corset tanking is win… either way, I don’t care about the reason because…

wait for it…

I got a Google Wave invite!!!!!!!!! Yes that’s right, an official invite from the staff over there, not a nomination. Yes this is epic win and happiness for me. Especially as this includes the ability to nominate 8 other people to get invites.

Oh what’s that? You don’t believe me? How about some screen shot goodness?

That’s a convo I had this morning with @lostprocess who got a nomination a few days ago. And yes, I’m an epic multi-tasker in the morning over my coffee lol.

So first impressions? Love it… although I’m really needing more of my friends on here to get the feel. Seeing people type live is pretty awesome though. I’m hoping to get a D&D game started kinda forum style on there once we get more people waving. Could be a fun way to integrate some media in there as well… if that does happen I’ll be blogging more about that.

I’m trying to think outside the box of business collaborations with it so any suggestions are totally appreciated. Be neat to start some kind of story idea collab or perhaps a Nanowrimo wave? How about a photo challenge wave? Yes… I’m just throwing random ideas out into the universe.

Please do chime in with your thoughts, invite beggars will be shunned. If I really like you, your invite is otw already. I have 4 left, they will go to friends not random people. Atm I’m just giving everyone a chance to express interest in getting an invite and then I’ll start sending those ones out.

Invite others to Google Wave
Google Wave is more fun when you have others to wave with, so please nominate people you would like to add. Keep in mind that this is a preview so it could be a bit rocky at times.

Invitations will not be sent immediately. We have a lot of stamps to lick.

So if I’ve sent you an invite, don’t fret it will show up!

If you’re already riding the wave of awesome, add me as a contact! tehg33kgir1 AT gmail DOT com