Comments on: You Are Only Coming Through in Waves

By: Steve Burnap

Steve Burnap — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:20:54 +0000

Are you still talking to random people on Wave, or are you all over that now?

By: Luisa Perkins

Luisa Perkins — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:14:22 +0000

The title of this post was my Facebook status just the other day. Freaky, man.

By: Jack Tingle

Jack Tingle — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:36:48 +0000

No, thanks, John. It doesn’t sound particularly interesting. :)

Regards,
Jack Tingle

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:31:59 +0000

I’d enter, but I already have one from another source. Mwahahhahahahhahahhahah.

By: TransDutch

TransDutch — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:15:03 +0000

One of the *features* as I understand it is that for someone to ’start a wave’ that includes you (even if it is a wave of two people – them and you) they have to be on your contacts list.

At least, that’s the idea I got from the online presentation video.

Good-bye spam email
Hello spam-requests to be added to your contacts (cf. Facebook Friends)

I think the latter may be easier to deal with

By: rick

rick — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:58:38 +0000

Meh. I’d love to hear your impressions John, but Wave will have to substantially replace email for it to be useful to me. More precisely, all of the people I now email with would need to be on Wave. So while I usually jump at this stuff… this time I’ll just wait on your Wave thoughts.

By: John Scalzi

John Scalzi — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:55:56 +0000

The contest is up.

By: TransDutch

TransDutch — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:55:11 +0000

Just a note so people know….It’s really a ‘nomination’ for a GoogleWave Account. Which puts you in the queue for new accounts as Google expands the users. It’s not immediate, as Gmail Invites were back in 2004.

There is no indication of how quickly Google will expand the Google Wave users. It is probably dependent upon factors such as how well the system stands up to the initial userload. I get the idea that this is more Beta than Gmail was at the beginning.

I’ve already been nominated (already in the queue), so I won’t be participating in Scalzi’s contest, giving everyone else a slightly better chance in winning, whatever the contest happens to be.

By: John from GR

John from GR — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:12:48 +0000

I signed up to be a beta tester for the OmniThing. Guess I rolled a critical miss.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:05:56 +0000

Now that you mention it, I am usually dizzy… Now, where was I? Ah yes, Australia.