I got this in my Google Wave mailbox today:
“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.
Happy waving!”
So what is Google Wave?
Currently an exclusive invite-only service, Google wave is a whole new way of communicating online!
“Google Wave is an online communication and collaboration tool that makes real-time interactions more seamless — in one place, you can communicate and collaborate using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is a conversation with multiple participants — participants are people added to a wave to discuss and collaborate on its content. Participants can reply any time and anywhere within a wave, and they can edit content and add more participants as a wave develops. It’s also possible to rewind waves with the playback functionality, to see what happened, and when.”
Here’s a video do you get a better idea of this cool service:
Anyhow, Google Wave is currently under development, and they’ve released a limited number of private invites to their fully usable preview edition.
Want a free super exclusive private invite to Google Wave? (CLOSED)
Just drop a comment on what your favorite Google Wave feature is, and how you would use it, and I’ll pick 10 lucky winners by the end of this week!
Update: here are our 10 lucky winners, and why they want to use Google Wave!:
1. Rebecca
I am a math coach at an elementary school, and I am really intrigued by the real-time communication tool, especially with the translator robot. I spend a lot of time discussing solution strategies with my students. Instead of watching me solve a problem, they collaborate with each other about how to solve problems. This practice helps them build real-life problem solving skills. There is a lot of talk in education today (especially in math) about comparisons between US students and students from other countries. I would love to be able to bring my students into this conversation by allowing them to share their solution strategies with students from other countries! I think this would be a powerful use of the technology, and one that would really drive home an important social concept to my math students.
2. byflipper
Due to multinational projects I am leading, i often need to communicate with people speaking other languages than my own. So, that instantly translating service of Wave amazed me with one word! I’d be pleased to be invited and be a part of this revolution!
3. cho
i really love the fact that it will enable better communication within members of group projects. I have been apart of multiple group assignments where there was a mess of the emails passed back and forth whilst certain members missed out on important information altogether. That’s why I’m really excited about Google wave since it changes the way we collectively communicate and recieve information ( and real-time adds a factor of cool) and that was my mini essay…
4. Jessie
I’m a student journalist, and my college newspaper is working on developing its online presence. As a leader within the newspaper, I would like to be able to collaborate with other students at my paper, along with other journalists, to discuss the future of journalism and how the web plays into it. However, none of the people using Wave at my newspaper received any invitations, so I can’t join their conversation. :( It would be beneficial to me and our newspaper if I could join in the discussion!
5. Ron
As a pastor, I’m always sending emails, documents and spreadsheets to others for worship planning. With input from several staff people, our Admin. Assistant cobbles together the Sunday worship bulletin. I think Wave will make our lives easier and our communication better.
6. Claes
I want to get a head start on using Wave to help edit stories. I would post a document and have all the people who need to comment it or edit it to do it without having to send different versions back and forth in an average of 10 emails for one story! It is very frustrating and confusing and wastes lots of time.
7. Daniel Coopsammy
I would like a chance to start using Google wave because i have a lot of team project for college that require team members to share information, a lot of the times requiring us to edit the same document multiply times. Google wave seems like a perfect fit in terms of giving us the ability to share information real time and without the need of sending 30 different emails for the same project.
8. Mrs Banka
As a math teacher, I think Google Wave could revolutionize group projects by lowering the classroom walls so that students can converse with students all over the world. The real-time display of typing will only be pertinent for those students in relatively close time zones, but think about a group of students set up to solve a common, real-life problem. I’d also like to see how the Wave would boost the digital PLN. I just graduated in May with my B.S. in Math Ed and am currently in graduate school for Curriculum and Instruction… but I can already tell, I want to be a change agent in the schools. And what better way than to already be armed with the technology experience to incorporate in my classroom. I want to make math real, meaningful and understandable and I think group projects with students outside of the classroom would be phenomenal!
9. John Lombaerde
I think that education and training is one of the greatest applications for Google Wave. I deal with complex technology subjects on a regular basis, and I always try to use layman’s terms in my explanation, but sometimes the written or spoken word is just not enough. The Multimedia drag and drop capabilities of Google Wave seem to have great potential, as well as the playback feature. These would both be very valuable in a technology training session. The asset Google Wave could bring to online education is very significant, and one for which I would have an immediate use
10. Patrick
I’m currently getting my masters in multimedia and am looking at using Google Wave heavily within my graduate project. I plan on incorporating it into an online educational model aimed towards kids with learning disabilities. It is such a cool and useful tool.
November 5th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
the ‘crap’ wants in! check out the site, and catch you on the wave.
mahalo!
November 5th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
I want to be able to get to use the wiki-style workspace. As I get to know how to use a wiki like WetPaint, being able to bring ever changing and flowing functionality into everyday activities would present some great options in my workspace.
Thanks for the opportunity for an invite! – kac2882
November 5th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
I’d like an invite! :) I’m constantly on the road, so this would be really useful for work collaborations and school team projects.
November 5th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Google wave provide common platform to access many application in easy way, this feature attract me more.
November 5th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Hey,
I’ve been following wave for a while and haven’t got an account yet. If you have one left, could I please get one?
thanx.
Wessel
November 5th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Hi there, I wanted to try google wave so bad. Can I have an invite please. Thanks in advance.
November 5th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Due to multinational projects I am leading, i often need to communicate with people speaking other languages than my own. So, that instantly translating service of Wave amazed me with one word! I’d be pleased to be invited and be a part of this revolution! Thanks..
November 5th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I want a invitation ,thanks
November 5th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Sorry forgot my reason.
I really like the twitter and image drag and drop feature.
November 5th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
i really love the fact that it will enable better communication within members of group projects. I hav been apart of multiple group assignments where there was a mess of the emails passed back and forth whilst certain members missed out on important information altogether. Thats why Im really excited about google wave since it changes the way we collectively communicate and recieve information ( and real-time adds a factor of cool) and that was my mini essay…
Thanks !
i hope I’m a contender…
November 5th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
it’s interesting to see how things can be updated in real-time, just like in IM except this comes with more practical functions to work things out like projects or discussions.
:)
November 5th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
I want one!
Reason: I actually watched that one hr + dev. preview (I’m sure others did too hehe) – and I know it’ll be a tool I’ll be using everyday!
PLEASE~ :D
November 5th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Hi there!
Please send me an invitation, that would be great! :-)
Greetings from Switzerland
Michael
November 5th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
I’ve been wanting to try out Wave since they released it – love the Gadgets integration, the drag and drop photos and the real-time conversation.
I’ve been recently trying to do a collaborative document on G Docs, which is good, but the accountability is sometimes confusing. Thats where Wave comes in!
November 5th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
me want one!!!
November 5th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
I want this invite, I love the Open Source as the best feature for Google Wave because of the fact that it will allow 3rd party developers to build extensions and software based on Google Wave. I want to try it out, please let me get it.
November 5th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
i want one please!!!
November 5th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
I want one.
November 5th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Please provide me one invite
November 5th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
I want an invite too! thx in advance.
November 5th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
I get TONS of emails every day, both from internal and external communications. I try to reply to them asap, but some eventually drown in the sea of mails. Hoping that Wave can go a little way towards improving our workflow here in the office.
November 5th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Hi,
It would be great if you invited me. I’m trying to get this thing known in Belgium.
Thanks
Pete
November 5th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Oh, please, send me one! I’m a swedish girl living in Hamburg and Google Wave would really come in handy. Furthermore, your blog is awesome of course ;)
November 5th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
I have to deal with a lot of email in my inbox, things that i need to share, foward with my friends or co-workers. Google wave is supposed to make my life better in that aspect.
I would appreciate one invite.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
thanks for the invitation!
:)
November 5th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
I find your Firefox page the most useful (plus I love the site title).
November 5th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
This will make all other social networking sites redundant! All hail Google Wave! Thanks for taking this to the next level!
November 5th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Hi I need a invite. Please mail me one. I am in need of it since it has been released. But no one has yet invited me.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
invite me pleeeae :D
November 5th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
As a pastor, I’m always sending emails, documents and spreadsheets to others for worship planning. With input from several staff people, our Admin. Assistant cobbles together the Sunday worship bulletin. I think Wave will make our lives easier and our communication better. Thanks for offering to share!
November 5th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
WOuld like one…please! ;)
November 5th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
hi,
how to get 10 invite form google hehe.
google wave will improve my communication with my friend and co workers,
November 5th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
I love to start using Wave. Please consider me for an invite.
November 5th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
I suspect I can’t tell you exactly for what I need/want an invite until I have actually tried the Wave… here in rainy Sweden.
November 5th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
I would like a invite!
November 5th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
As a cultural entrepreneur I need to manage different projects, among different teams, at the same time to keep everyone envolved and motivaded.
So Wave can be a true ‘time-saver’ in my day routine, helping me to administer the communication between my contacts.
Want one invitation!
Cheers from Brazil!
November 5th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
I would love an invite simply because I am technical geek who like experimenting with new technologies. I do not have a favorite feature because I would like to play with the service/product myself, opposed to reading what others have to say about it.
November 6th, 2009 at 12:39 am
Hi,
I want to get a head start on using Wave to help edit stories. I would post a document and have all the people who need to comment it or edit it to do it without having to send different versions back and forth in an average of 10 emails for one story! It is very frustrating and confusing and wastes lots of time.
November 6th, 2009 at 12:47 am
Personally, I am most excited about using Google Wave to telecommute. Having been fortunate enough to keep my job while going back to school, I can’t complain too much about difficulties in doing my work. However, being able to communicate/collaborate on documents with people at the main office in real time will vastly improve my ability to do my work.
November 6th, 2009 at 1:12 am
You got invites? Me want invites.
Won’t bother begging – but open to barter haha.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:25 am
I would like a chance to start using google wave because i have alot of team project for college that require team members to share information, a lot of the times requiring us to edit the same document multiply times. Google wave seems like a perfect fit in terms of giving us the ability to share information real time and without the need of sending 30 different emails for the same project. Thanks for the time, hope to catch you on a wave!
November 6th, 2009 at 4:53 am
Hi, I’m now learning document management systems and wiki, and I realy want to try google wave to know how it works.
November 6th, 2009 at 7:02 am
Hi,
I hope the invitations have not run out yet. I like the collaboration feature in Google Wave. As a developer, I would like to develop my products to interact and take advantage of Google Wave. An invitation would be greatly appreciated to help my development.
Thank you!
Regards,
Sam
November 6th, 2009 at 7:15 am
Please give me one wave invite
November 6th, 2009 at 8:58 am
please, send me one ^^
blasyramon27 at gmail dot com
November 6th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
I gotta say, of all the features of Wave I think the most novel and interesting to me is the real time display of what someone else is typing. It’s such a small thing, but being able to know what’s coming your way is and formulate a response is a lot of what actual conversation is about, and having that in Wave will make having a text based conversation feel a lot more fluid than previous technologies have allowed.
November 6th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
As a math teacher, I think Google Wave could revolutionize group projects by lowering the classroom walls so that students can converse with students all over the world. The real-time display of typing will only be pertinent for those students in relatively close time zones, but think about a group of students set up to solve a common, real-life problem. I’d also like to see how the Wave would boost the digital PLN. I just graduated in May with my B.S. in Math Ed and am currently in graduate school for Curriculum and Instruction… but I can already tell, I want to be a change agent in the schools. And what better way than to already be armed with the technology experience to incorporate in my classroom. I want to make math real, meaningful and understandable and I think group projects with students outside of the classroom would be phenomenal!
November 6th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
The ability to streamline order processing and real time updates via timeline editing I expect will be crucial in “Just in Time” order processing for supply chain management.
Tony Kerr
November 6th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
I think that education and training is one of the greatest applications for Google Wave. I deal with complex technology subjects on a regular basis, and I always try to use layman’s terms in my explanation, but sometimes the written or spoken word is just not enough. The Multimedia drag and drop capabilities of Google Wave seem to have great potential, as well as the playback feature. These would both be very valuable in a technology training session. The asset Google Wave could bring to online education is very significant, and one for which I would have an immediate use. Thanks for this opportunity to put in our requests for an invitation.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
The problem with the folks like Google & Yahoo is that they have created many tools which have been loosely coupled. The challenge with such a solution is that the the information gets locked into multiple silos. With Google Wave they are trying to integrate all the conversations (discussions) but what would be truly desirable is a platform built form ground up using social networking at the base and business apps on top of it. I have tried Injoos Teamware (www.injoos.com) and found it captures both informal and formal knowledge like documents in one single workspace on the cloud.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
I want to see how well Google Wave change our way of communication. Also, help me to have better comm with family member stay 600KM away…
November 6th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
If any invites left… please send me one too…
thanks :D
November 6th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
i need an google wave account for my school project.
Google wave is an useful web-based application for collaboration and project management. I am helding a big project now. Plz I need one. Thanks.
November 6th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Great to see the new collaborative way of communication
would be really happy to receive an invite and use it.
and would also be happy to write feedback and comments after using it :)
November 7th, 2009 at 12:41 am
If you happen to have any more invitations, I could really use one. I’m currently getting my masters in multimedia and am looking at using Google Wave heavily within my graduate project. I plan on incorporating it into an online educational model aimed towards kids with learning disabilities. It is such a cool and useful tool. I just wish that I had stumbled upon it a little earlier. Thanks. irishthunder [at] gmail.com
November 7th, 2009 at 1:23 am
the best feature is that you can have a group conversation whether by chat or email and all members can edit it..
I would use it as the base communication between me, my colleagues and our professor for my graduation project
November 7th, 2009 at 2:52 am
please give me a google wave gift Thanks :) salmokarjames at gmail
November 7th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
If u hav Wave invitation left, please drop 1 to my box
ta986468@gmail.com
or
If u want to change with Voice invitation, I hav 2 left in my account
Thanks
November 7th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Yo. Hook a brother up!
November 8th, 2009 at 12:10 am
i wan!
November 8th, 2009 at 6:54 am
I am a math coach at an elementary school, and I am really intrigued by the real-time communication tool, especially with the translator robot. I spend a lot of time discussing solution strategies with my students. Instead of watching me solve a problem, they collaborate with each other about how to solve problems. This practice helps them build real-life problem solving skills. There is a lot of talk in education today (especially in math) about comparisons between US students and students from other countries. I would love to be able to bring my students into this conversation by allowing them to share their solution strategies with students from other countries! I think this would be a powerful use of the technology, and one that would really drive home an important social concept to my math students.
November 8th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Hey I really need an invite! I think the live collaboration tool is my favorite app and would love to try out the real time communication tool..
Thanks again for this giveaway..
Hope that I am the lucky winner!!
November 9th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
i want one :)
good luck to everyone
November 10th, 2009 at 6:27 am
Can sombody send me invite, please ?
gamblesweet[at]gmail.com
Thank you !
November 10th, 2009 at 10:26 am
I’m a student journalist, and my college newspaper is working on developing its online presence. As a leader within the newspaper, I would like to be able to collaborate with other students at my paper, along with other journalists, to discuss the future of journalism and how the web plays into it. However, none of the people using Wave at my newspaper received any invitations, so I can’t join their conversation. :( It would be beneficial to me and our newspaper if I could join in the discussion!
November 11th, 2009 at 4:34 am
I think the coolest thing is the collaboration functionality. It blows any other application away from that standpoint. I’d love an invite. Also would love to be able to keep in touch with some peeps over in Iraq! Thanks for the gracious offer either way!
November 11th, 2009 at 11:33 am
I would like an invite please.
November 14th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Contest closed! Congratulations to the winners!
For all those who didn’t win, thanks for participating – and if I do get another bunch of invites, I’ll post them up online again!
November 14th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Woaw! Thank you friendbeef and thank you James Yeang!