Posts Tagged ‘Google Wave’
September 30th, 2009, 10 comments
Google's inviting 100,000 people to the Google Wave beta today, which means Twitter is already awash in people asking about and begging for entry (hello, trending topic). For what it's worth, my sources tell me invites won't go out until later in the day U.S. time--remember the Wave team is in Australia. Update: There's no source link, but the Twitter trend explainer in Brizzly says re: Google Wave:
Google has announced that it will be sending out more than 100,000 invites to Google Wave. Each of those 100,000 invites will come with 8 invites to invite other people. The release time for these invitations (originally 16:00 GMT) has been moved back to "late in the day US time on Sept 30".
In the meantime, you can sate your Wave curiosity without an invite. Check out my in-depth high-res screenshot tour of Wave over at Lifehacker this morning. Like I said in the post, Wave is only as useful as the people who are in it, so if you get an invitation and the privilege of giving out invitations, do use them very wisely. For background, see also my previous Wave posts: The Google Wave Highlight reel, and Google Wave Q&A.
Google Wave First Look [Lifehacker]
September 22nd, 2009, 8 comments
After "countless hours" of work, the Google Wave team has thrown up their hands and decided not to make Wave work in Internet Explorer natively. Instead, they released Google Chrome Frame, an IE add-on that puts Chrome's backend inside Internet Explorer. Next week another batch of Google Wave invitations will go out, and IE users will have to install Chrome Frame or switch to Firefox or Safari to try Wave. (The screenshot is the prompt IE users will get when they try to log into Wave.) Google explains why Internet Explorer just doesn't have what it takes to run Wave:
Google Wave depends on strong JS and DOM rendering performance to provide a desktop-like experience in the browser. HTML5's offline storage and web workers will enable us to add great features without having to compromise on performance. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer, still used by the majority of the Web's users, has not kept up with such fairly recent developments in Web technology.
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New Tech Gets Deployed “the Web Way”
August 7th, 2009, 2 comments
Anil Dash makes the compelling argument that small incremental upgrades using easily-hackable technologies is the most effective way to get new features deployed across the web--as opposed to installing monolithic, multi-requirement software like Google Wave. When it comes to realtime-enabling sites, the Pushbutton web uses "the web way," and Google Wave will go "the Wave way." Which will succeed? Only time will tell, but these days I'm just as (if not more) excited about Pushbutton technologies I can easily turn on on my web site than Wave.
June 12th, 2009, 9 comments
After whinging loudly about not having access to the Google Wave preview, Santa GOOG dropped an invite off in my inbox last night. Sadly I have no invites to give you, but I want to share the love how I can. Last night I held a Wave Q&A on Twitter, where folks asked anything they wanted to know about the app and I did my best to answer. I'm no Wave expert, but now that I've got my dirty little paws on it I had some insights and screenshots to share. The question and answer transcript is here, plus those images.
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June 9th, 2009, 6 comments
I haven't gotten an invite to try out the Google Wave Preview (yet? pretty please Mister Google?), but based solely on the 80-minute demonstration video, two weeks later I'm still jazzed about the upcoming product. Everyone I talk to about Wave who's not a tech journalist hasn't taken the time to watch the lengthy video, which is understandable.
If you haven't either, you're in the right place. To save you the trouble, using TubeChop I've sliced up the video into eight 30-60 second clips that show off the best parts of Google Wave (minus the awkward nerd moments, bad scripted jokes, and network outages that happened during the full demo). Here they are.
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Google Wave, Bing, and the Future of Newspapers on TWiT
May 31st, 2009, 2 comments
Had a blast yakking with Leo Laporte, Don Tapscott, Jeff Jarvis and his son Jake Jarvis on today's episode of This Week in Tech. We covered much ground, from gushing over/being cautious about Google Wave (first take the time to watch this, then read this), to the flailings of the newspaper industry (read this), to redesigning the goals and methods of the modern university (listen to what 17-year-old Jake has to say about that). This was my third TWiT, but it was the first one nerves didn't get the best of me--felt comfortable, chilled out, and quite chatty . Thanks to Leo and the rest of the fabulous panel for putting up with me. Here's the episode page; MP3 available for download.
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