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Started by Bebek Sincap Ratatosk, October 01, 2009, 04:37:00 PM

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Bebek Sincap Ratatosk

#15
October 02, 2009, 08:22:50 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 02, 2009, 07:56:09 PM
I gotta be honest, there is no way in hell I am going to watch a 90 minute internet video.




I didn't either... I skipped through the boring bits and watched the 20 minutes or so where they have multiple laptops engaged in communication with the Wave system... I think it starts around 15 minutes in or so.


EDIT:
This is from their site:
   
What is a wave?

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.
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Captain Utopia

#16
October 02, 2009, 08:35:45 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 02, 2009, 07:21:22 PM
Time to start nudging Audacity in that direction, I suppose.



Holy shit, this could break things wide open.
It's still quite a way from being that. They seem to be addressing infrastructure/scalability first. The UI is neat, but it is a basic container. Of course, being able to implement any interface on top of the infrastructure is where it starts getting interesting. And the "data" in a wave can be sent to "robots" on other wave servers - robots are just programs that can read/write data contained in waves - e.g. you could have a "reverb" robot, and if that sucked up too much of your CPU quota in the cloud, then you could run it on your own computer.

Bebek Sincap Ratatosk

#17
October 02, 2009, 08:43:20 PM
Quote from: fictionpuss on October 02, 2009, 08:35:45 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 02, 2009, 07:21:22 PM
Time to start nudging Audacity in that direction, I suppose.



Holy shit, this could break things wide open.
It's still quite a way from being that. They seem to be addressing infrastructure/scalability first. The UI is neat, but it is a basic container. Of course, being able to implement any interface on top of the infrastructure is where it starts getting interesting. And the "data" in a wave can be sent to "robots" on other wave servers - robots are just programs that can read/write data contained in waves - e.g. you could have a "reverb" robot, and if that sucked up too much of your CPU quota in the cloud, then you could run it on your own computer.


Muahahahahaha!
- I don't see race. I just see cars going around in a circle.

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fomenter

#18
October 02, 2009, 08:47:22 PM
i avoided my-space face-book and twitter... and feel i missed nothing

in the video at around 23 min he said it will make flame wars more effective,   why did it take him so long to get to the feature that really sells it...
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Faust

#19
October 02, 2009, 09:05:55 PM
Hey, I'm looking for an invite here.
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Captain Utopia

#20
October 02, 2009, 09:50:04 PM
FYI, I'm now out of invites.

Golden Applesauce

#21
October 03, 2009, 12:16:56 AM
So if this is the next big social thing... are there limited numbers of invites or something?  Seems like that would kinda kill the concept dead.
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fomenter

#22
October 03, 2009, 12:24:22 AM
limited invites to play with the beta i would guess...
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Captain Utopia

#23
October 03, 2009, 01:01:25 AM
My guess is that they're staggering the rollout to ensure that they have enough resources. They did the same thing with gmail back in the day, you got 5 invites.. then a while later you'd get some more. They're scaling by 3-4 orders of magnitude, so it's not a trivial undertaking.

Eater of Clowns

#24
October 03, 2009, 01:11:03 AM
How long is it supposed to take for the invites to come through.  You sent mine yesterday and it isn't there yet.
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#25
October 03, 2009, 01:54:13 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 03, 2009, 01:11:03 AM
How long is it supposed to take for the invites to come through.  You sent mine yesterday and it isn't there yet.
I wish I knew - a quick search around and other people are asking this too... the first "nomination" I sent out yesterday around ~4pm hasn't been sent yet.

All they say is:
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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 I guess anything else is speculation at this point :-/

They are right though - it is a trifle dull by myself!

Rococo Modem Basilisk

#26
October 04, 2009, 01:35:16 AM
Presumably those invited will get invites to send out themselves?

I'd like one, if any of you can send.


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#27
October 04, 2009, 01:41:13 PM
Quote from: Enki v. 2.0 on October 04, 2009, 01:35:16 AM
Presumably those invited will get invites to send out themselves?

I'd like one, if any of you can send.
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bds

#28
October 04, 2009, 05:33:20 PM
Ditto, if there are any going?

Dalek

#29
November 15, 2009, 05:00:59 PM
Can someone send me an invite. My email is trolled@abv.bg
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