Anyone got Google Wave invites? I'm shamelessly whoring myself out for one.
ssssh you're infected, don't sneeze so much.
I have four left, PM me your email (anyone) - can be disposable I think, as you can attach it to your google profile later.
Whooooo!!!
Thanks fp!
No problem, you're in. Not sure how long it'll take - "Invitations will not be sent immediately. We have a lot of stamps to lick." - but I'd guess over the next 24 hours if it's anything like their previous signups.
Three left if anyone else is interested.
I believe I PMed you, but I also might have timed out at work so I'm not sure.
Got it - 2 left - rollup - don't waste your $10 buying one on ebay.
It's not _that_ exciting yet, but it'll be neat to get a discordian influence in there early.
Thanks, fp. I'll be checking it out over the next few days.
Wtf is Google Wave?
Quote from: GA on October 02, 2009, 06:50:54 PM
Wtf is Google Wave?
New collaboration tool which has the features of email, IM, Document Management, group chat, multimedia sharing etc all in one.
For example, I start a 'wave' (message) and invite Fictionpuss. Fictionpuss is offline so it works like email.
Fictionpuss comes online and replies to my message. I'm online so this works like Instant Messaging. We converse for awhile and decide to add GA. Now GA can see the Wave (and play it back to watch how the conversation developed). Replies can be nested inside waves, so one wave may have multiple threads within that wave. We can drag/drop multimedia content, or if the initial wave was the latest Discordian essay, the replies could be edits and markup which are visible to people already subscribed to the wave.
Then we can publish the Wave to a webpage and people on the webpage can also interact with the Wave, which we can see in our Wave client... all of this in real time (to the point that the default setting sends character by character in real time).
Of course, this is just the start. I think we'll see Wave replace many of the forms of communication we use currently. It can behave like email, IM, Forum, Wiki, Web publisher all at once.... and its all open source because they're hoping developers will look at it as a platform for new applications.
Oh and it can interface to your Android, iPhone, Blackberry etc in real time as well.
If they can do this with music editing software, I will have to find a way to make love to the internet.
Quote from: LMNO on October 02, 2009, 07:03:18 PM
If they can do this with music editing software, I will have to find a way to make love to the internet.
The key bit here is that the architecture is completely open sourced... So making it work for music editing is just a matter of a team writing the code.
Time to start nudging Audacity in that direction, I suppose.
Holy shit, this could break things wide open.
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.
I agree... I think this could be the next major evolution in communication on the web. There are some really cool videos at Google http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html#video The main video is the 90 minute presentation with crazy demo stuff. The other two are a little more direct/technical...
At the very least watch the 90 minute video and skip around through the demo to see what they already have in place. :)
I gotta be honest, there is no way in hell I am going to watch a 90 minute internet video.
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.
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.
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 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...
Hey, I'm looking for an invite here.
FYI, I'm now out of invites.
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.
limited invites to play with the beta i would guess...
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.
How long is it supposed to take for the invites to come through. You sent mine yesterday and it isn't there yet.
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!
Presumably those invited will get invites to send out themselves?
I'd like one, if any of you can send.
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.
Ditto, if there are any going?
Can someone send me an invite. My email is trolled@abv.bg
Sent. Expect it to take a while.
Thank you!
Can someone send me an invite?
genericthrowawayemail@gmail.com
So a fun thing that someone suggested to me recently was going to the With:public furry waves and deleting all the posts in it.
They can see you do it but they cant revert it :)
ugh, I just did a with:public search on porn and half the active waves are 4chan lolicon threads.
How do I go about getting people arrested/banned off google for this?
Quote from: Soylent Green on November 15, 2009, 09:37:04 PM
Can someone send me an invite?
genericthrowawayemail@gmail.com
Sent.
Quote from: Faust
ugh, I just did a with:public search on porn and half the active waves are 4chan lolicon threads.
How do I go about getting people arrested/banned off google for this?
Lolicon drawings don't count as CP except in Australia and (iirc) Germany.
Or so I hear.
Quote from: Enki v. 2.0 on November 16, 2009, 12:34:56 AM
Quote from: Soylent Green on November 15, 2009, 09:37:04 PM
Can someone send me an invite?
genericthrowawayemail@gmail.com
Sent.
Quote from: Faust
ugh, I just did a with:public search on porn and half the active waves are 4chan lolicon threads.
How do I go about getting people arrested/banned off google for this?
Lolicon drawings don't count as CP except in Australia and (iirc) Germany.
Or so I hear.
Nope fully illegal in ireland and maybe the UK.
Quote from: Enki v. 2.0 on November 16, 2009, 12:34:56 AM
Quote from: Soylent Green on November 15, 2009, 09:37:04 PM
Can someone send me an invite?
genericthrowawayemail@gmail.com
Sent.
Quote from: Faust
ugh, I just did a with:public search on porn and half the active waves are 4chan lolicon threads.
How do I go about getting people arrested/banned off google for this?
Lolicon drawings don't count as CP except in Australia and (iirc) Germany.
Or so I hear.
Thank you.
And I think I read that the UK was passing some law banning "offensive images" or something like that.
Google wave ... another step towards un-privacy. now they want us to save all your documents on their hard disks.
The technology sounds pretty useful. And if it's open source, one could run it on own servers so google wouldn't get any data.
For each search you do on Google, Google knows more about what you don't know.
Im in a love-hate relationship with Google.
Bürger, I wouldn't worry so much. To Google, you are just a machine for producing valuable statistics, and as these things go they are relatively well-aware of the fact that you're kind of doing them a favor supplying them with raw data so they tend not to do stuff that will piss you off and make you pull the plug on the stats. They need us. I wouldn't use Google products for anything seriously dangerous/illegal, but they can have the rest of my life if they keep working for it so good.
I got an invite to Wave but can't quite get my head around what it's good for. Time will tell, I guess.
Quote from: Bürger on November 16, 2009, 10:58:20 PM
Google wave ... another step towards un-privacy. now they want us to save all your documents on their hard disks.
The technology sounds pretty useful. And if it's open source, one could run it on own servers so google wouldn't get any data.
For each search you do on Google, Google knows more about what you don't know.
Im in a love-hate relationship with Google.
You might find this useful then: https://www.google.com/dashboard/
Thanks for the invite, Enki! :D
So, are there any PD wave going on?
There's one that seems to have been dead for the past few weeks. We have also brought over some percentage of the BIP.
Quote from: Iptuous on November 25, 2009, 01:16:31 AM
Thanks for the invite, Enki! :D
So, are there any PD wave going on?
What's your ID, we'll make sure you're added :)
Quote from: Doctor Rat Bastard on November 25, 2009, 03:20:38 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on November 25, 2009, 01:16:31 AM
Thanks for the invite, Enki! :D
So, are there any PD wave going on?
What's your ID, we'll make sure you're added :)
matthew.dozier