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Google Wave invites

lux — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:07:15 +0000

We’ve got 5 a sack-load of Google Wave invites to give away – to the first five people who ask for them in the comments below.

Go ahead; add your name below. We’ll accomodate all we can.

PS: invites will be emailed to the email ID associated with your profile.

The above post was written by Lakshmanan (Lux) Narayan of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, powers the online backup services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides remote backup, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies & universities.

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I got a Google Wave invite. Now what?

lux — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:35:31 +0000

Week 1: I want a Google Wave invite. I want a Google Wave invite

Week 2: I got a Google Wave invite. I got a Google Wave invite

Week 3: It’s lonely here. What do I do with Google Wave?

Sounds familiar?

I was (and am still, in some sense) in that boat – till the guy who gave me the invite just gave me two tips that really helped.

For all those of you who got into Google Wave, only to find that you and your (wave invitation) benefactor make up your entire wave universe, here’s how you can connect with the rest of the world:

a) Type “with:public” in the search box to search for public waves – and start participating in them. There are Sudokus, guides, conversations & spam.

b) Create a wave of your own and make it public by adding public@a.gwave.com as wave participant. There’s a small ‘trick’ needed with this one. When you Click on the + beside the Manage Contacts link and type public.a.gwave.com as a contact, you’ll get an unfriendly “User does not have a Google Wave account” message. Just ignore it, and hit the enter key. The contact gets added and is called ‘Public’ in your contacts list. Now you can create a new wave and add ‘Public’ to the conversation. And don’t forget to add me: aluxtinas AT googlewave.com

That’s it.

Hello World, anyone?

Note to self: try & rack up some good karma points by illustrating the above in a a video.

Hat Tip: The ‘guy’ who gave me the Google Wave invite and these inputs is James Ramya Rajan. Thanks, James.

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Wave to me

lux — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:10:17 +0000

Today I felt like a kid with a new toy – a new toy that was temporarily out of stock (and so my friends couldn’t get at it…yet).

I got a Google Wave invite!

What’s Google Wave? You’ve either been living under a rock or even worse…you have a life!

Anyway, Google Wave is a new product/service form Google that is currently in “Preview Mode”. Preview mode seems to be the mode before Google goes into a never ending Beta. Google Wave aims/claims/hopes to usher in a new way (wave?) of communicating.

The rationale is simple – if email were to be invented today, what would it look like? Google argues that it wouldn’t resemble anything like what we use now – all of which they say are (they say) incremental improvements over their predecessor emailosauruses – remnants of a jurassic era in computing.

Google Wave is (apparently) for today’s communication needs!

If you’ve got an hour and some minutes to spare, you could join 5.9million other people and check out this video – aptly called the looooooong video. Yes it’s long, but it’s guaranteed to knock your socks off. Trust me.

Now excuse me while I play in my Google Wave sandbox. If I get any invites, I’ll be sure to let you know.

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