How do you still work at hackaday mike?

This thing is wicked cool.

Anyone got an invite for me?

My email is mikeyberman@gmail.com

Thanks :)

I’ve been on the beta for a while now (had a dev preview acct) and overall, It’s very hard to judge how useful the base service will be until I can get everyone on my office on it, and use it for a while. It’s definitely not a “replacement” for Twitter, IRC or Blogs, but it could be a good alternative to email for some things, kind of a shared workspace thing for small projects or mini-projects. Not good for anything “public facing”

The protocol alone is probably worth the hype, but the client is still very beta (much moreso than Gmail was upon it’s “beta” release). Basically the protocol allows you to keep two or more copies of a single XML document in sync in real time. For an application that can deal with that, it’s extremely powerful, and can see lots of uses.

Seems like a glorified IM to me. You can now add photos though. Maybe once I actually use it, I might change my name, but it seems like a step up from what is already out there. I admit it is a step up, but can’t really call it re-inventing email.

Calling it a replacement for email and stuff is rather ignorant, but the most sensible use case I can see it as a very useful tool for teams needing to share info and files in RT.

All of you posting your email’s in a public forum like this, the spambots would like to thank you.

man oh man…….this looks fun…hack wise I dont know…..I wonder if you could html bomb it….haha

Cant wait till it goes live.

This sounds like a horrible fucking idea.
It sounds like google is trying to erase the entire notion of privacy from the english language.

Wow, they invented the forum with extra time suck.

The best part of email is that it’s NOT realtime. I can read/reply/react ON MY OWN SCHEDULE, not someone elses.

invited me ? xiaobaozjr@gmail.com

is this what normal people call editable chat! xD

This is basically Ray Ozzie’s Groove from back in 2001 or so, before Microsoft bought it and mangled it, and with some new functionality allowed by the proliferance of web APIs these days. Certainly not anything new. Could be convenient, but might require companies other than Google to get in on the act if it wants to become more than a toy.
Or am I missing something?

One more invitation please: xsoft.cz[AT]gmail.com
(I didnt have luck). Thanks

booooring…
..besides… this same thing has already existed through a terminal window for aaaages… I can remember doing the same thing in some old DOS program on a 14.4kbps modem between 3 of us… maybe it just wasn’t pretty enough to catch on…
ehh… whatever.

I am also one of the initial g-wave users. All I can tell you about it is that if you want to find out how it works and what it does, you can probably check the videos from g-wave devs.

It really doesn’t do more than you probably already know.

One thing I’ve noticed while playing with it, is that it eats memory, and lots of it.

A quick experiment showed me that when I was just idling (only one window open in FF, with only one tab – the g-wave one), the allocated memory for the browser was increasing by 2k every second. If I started clicking the links and typing/interacting with it, the memory usage would increase to about 50k every second.

Has anyone else noticed this behaviour?

People are currently being invited to try (a public preview of) an implementation of a Wave _client_.

What’s really interesting is the Wave Federation Protocol which is an extension to XMPP [RFC3920] and could well be a game changer for the way stuff happens on the web.

Have a read of this guy’s take on Wave: http://bit.ly/jQx4q which hints at Wave being quite a bit more than just a replacement for email et al.

I like how there is an icon used next to your text for the real-time translation. Machine translation isn’t quite perfect yet. Now if we could just get people to use the proper form of their own language, we would be set.
All your base are belong to us.

@Mr Dan, your company can host it’s own server implementing the wave federation protocol and making wave services available to your users and thus manage storage and security of your own data.
http://www.waveprotocol.org/draft-protocol-specs/draft-protocol-spec#providers

Regarding the BBQ, you’ve kind of hit the nail squarely upon its head – you could use all those disparate services to arrange an event or you could create a single ‘conversation’ using wave. Add your invitees to the wave, set a time and venue, discuss what booze needs to bought, etc. Your invitees can all participate in the same conversation using whichever wave client they choose, in real time (or not, whatever).

@jah

Thanks for that link, it explains more clearly what can be done and the benefits of the protocol. The video just focused on what the Google Wave site was doing with it, which is where my queries stemmed from.

can anyone send my invite, my mail is:
wave.sux@google-wave-shit.com

This is definitely not a next-gen email solution. People are able to see what you’re typing as you’re typing it? Sounds fun socially but I can’t imagine using this in the office when I’m engaged in a bitchy string of emails with management…

Looks like a bloated communications suite, I could be wrong though. From the description I can do all that stuff with IM or IRC/DCC.

holy shit that woman is disgusting

I see comment’s refering this to IRC. IRC is great, but it’s persistant. You can not edit the information posted by another use like you can with this.

I could see this being a powerful tool for dev-team’s looking for a way to share and edit code in unison from a distance. If there could be a secondary window open that would track the conversation that goes along with the coding then this would by far surpass Devunity.

i have to say that i really like google wave. it felt pointless at first with no friends on wave, then i discovered how to find public waves. i think it has a lot of promise. just my 2 cents.

btw your gmail account also becomes an @googlewave.com account as well. a friend test emailed mine and i never got it….

…still failing to see the purpose of this project/post.
:-/

…though it does remind me of Germany in the early 1940′s or Windows ME for some reason.

Interesting. But what about BCC? And what if you need to keep your emails hosted on-site in a secure environment?

And looking at the video this has shitall to do with email, A webapp with shared communication is sooner compared with facebook or IM’s or that failed orkut thing.
To refer to email in connection with this is ridiculous, and delusional.

Ok, to everyone whining about it “being in real time” and “everyone sees as you type”:

Flip off your switch for a while.

Character-by-character update is merely an option, a non-fundamental accessory.

JUST AS THEY THOROUGHLY EXPLAIN IN THAT 90 MINUTE VIDEO YOU DIDN’T WATCH.

This is the dumbed-down version for the masses.
In the full 90 minute intro they explain syndication, privacy, standardization and even show a fucking CLI client to get one damned thing into your decrepit skull: this is an open standard based on syndication. Just like email.

And then you go and compare it to MSN fucking Messenger.
Way to show your understanding on this matter.
Almost as good as “XMPP sucks because you can’t sign in with any email like MSN”.

@pauliweb most of those features are accomplished by adding “robots”, which are built on top of the framework laid out by wave – meaning anyone can make anything along those lines and it’ll be a first-class citizen just like the ones showed.
Think about that means.

@James Gtalk uses XMPP; you can message people using other XMPP servers just like you can email people who use other email servers.
Why no MSN? Because it’s a centralized protocol, as opposed to being syndicated (like email and XMPP).

I just hope Google really puts this tool through the testing it needs before it decides to push it live for the public.

yo can anyone send me an invite? that would be awesome I sent 100′s of gmail invites years ago.

kentgug89@gmail.com

thanks

If anyone wants a Wave invite you can also hit up jesseryan.me . There are some invites there.