Google Wave Invited

How many of you are already a Google Wave user? I’ve only been a user of this new hot Computer Technology for like three weeks now. Previously I’ve disclosed one Google Wave feature which I hoped Google or Firefox will fix in the near future. After three weeks of sporadically using this free google application, I’ve discovered another thing about it which I don’t quite like.

This will probably happen to many new Wave users if not all.

Once your wave account is activated, you will at first be excited to learn what Google Wave is all about. You’ll go through all the tutorials and videos made available in that Welcome Wave. You’ll also go searching for more Google Wave information on the net. This stage will probably last a day or two. I’d give it one week at the most.

5 Google Wave Contacts

After that first week, you’ll then realize one thing – you can’t really do much waving.. alone.

Google Wave is unlike traditional email where you can interact with anyone in the world who has email. At the moment, you can only wave with other Google Wave users. Since Google Wave is still under Preview mode, chances are, your contacts may not have a wave account yet.

Today, I’ve got a few more contacts added into my wave account. I can now wave with 5 other waver contacts. It’s getting less lonely in the Google Wave world right now. Will try to do some collaborative waving in the near future with them.

Trust me, waving alone is not much fun. You can’t really do much with it at the moment, especially when you are all alone in the wave island. That seems to be the major complaint about it at the moment. I do believe that once everyone get a grip to how to really utilize wave in their daily routine, Google Wave can be a tool you can’t do without.

Invite Others To Google Wave

To make things more interesting, I’ve just received an invite wave. What’s an invite wave? It’s where I can send Google Wave invites to others. So, would you like an invite from me? I only have a limited number of invites. Thus I may not be able to invite all of you.

So here’s how I’m going to do this.. If you want an invite, ask for it nicely and be as creative as you can. Don’t forget to leave me your email address (I think it has to be a gmail address at the moment). The first person to send in their request will definitely get an invite. I’ll then choose four of the best (creative) request and send invites to them.

You can drop in your request via the comment form below or better yet, if you have a blog, then write a post about this entry in your blog.

You all have until 12:00am Sunday (Malaysian Time, GMT +8) to send in your creative requests.

Update December 2nd 2009: Strange, I’ve received just one request. Congratulations Saifullizan! Happy waving bro! Perhaps no one is up to the task of sending in a creative request.

As such, I will now make it easier for you. Just drop in your gmail address and I’ll send over a invite. While stocks last!

Go ahead! Drop your GMail address at the comment section below.

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At the moment, Google Wave accounts are by invite only. Pretty much how Google Mail was when it they first launched it. You can go to the Google Wave site and request for an invite. Google will one day send you an invite. That will probably take a long time. You stand a better chance of getting one if you know some one who already have an account.

I’ve just received my invite to Google Wave. Thanks to HalimiSaidi.com for the invite.

I have yet to venture Google Wave in detail. I’m just currently going through the Getting Started and When To Use waves. Oh yes, in Google Wave, the items you work with are called waves. Each wave consists of blips. Don’t worry, you’ll get to know them when you have your Google Wave account.

Google Wave User Interface

I’ve just discovered one thing which I don’t quite like about Google Wave. If you are playing a video in Google Wave, don’t play around with the User Interface (UI). Every time you change anything on the UI, your video will be reloaded. It’s like the entire UI is reloaded into your browser.

This happened to me a few times now. I was watching the videos in the welcoming waves. Then I decided to minimize the middle Google Wave panel. Lo and behold, it resized the video panel and reloaded the video from scratch. This will be a major pain if you are on a slow line.

I think Google should look into this. I’m sure they can make it such that the third viewing panel is not reloaded when changes are made to other panels.

Wait..  something just crossed my mind. What if I try the same thing in Chrome? The browser I mean, not the Google Chrome OS? Hold on a minute… wait… wait… wait…

Ahah! Just as I thought. In Google Chrome I can pretty much do anything on the UI and still watch the video without interruption. Works fine in Internet Explorer 6 too!

I guess this is a browser thingy then. A Firefox limitation? Or is it just my Firefox?

Anyway, apart from that one minor flaw or bug or whatever it is.. after using Google Wave, you will not want to use eMail anymore. Facebook? I’m sure they will soon integrate with Wave once Wave goes public.

Will be looking for a Google Wave plugin for WordPress now.. It’ll surely be available anytime soon, if not already.

Google wave invites are a hot thing on the net right now. Do you want one? At the moment, I don’t have any free invites in my account. I’ll make an announcement in here when I have some. So, if you want an invite, check in here often. Better yet, subscribe to my KodeeXII.Net feeds.

For those who still have no clue to what Google Wave is, check out the following video.

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If you are still lost, this 120 minutes video should do the trick.

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Let’s start waving..

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