Google Wave Invite Paaleeasee.
So, it’s out. While it’s not quite out to the masses it’s out to the first 100,000 lucky people.
Already the folks over at lifehacker have put up a screenshot Tour of Google Wave, and to be honest, I’m a little bit envious. While I am drooling over certain features like the Ribbit conference call gadget (everyone inserts their phone numbers to a wave and a conference call gets made inline), it’s the potential that really gets me going. As I sit here now, I’ve got 4 google-related tabs open: Google Reader, Calendar, Docs, and Picasa).. imagine a streamlined page…. 1 page that contains all of your ‘online conversations’, your interests and your google related doings. Life will be simpler, no?
But! As the writer acknowledged, such innovations and collaborative tools are only as good as how many of your friends use it. The same holds true for the present, what with the social aspect recently added to Google Reader, the shared-calendar feature in gCal and even so in Docs or Google Talk! You don’t get to use half of the functions of these programs unless your friends are as into it as you.
Soon though, soon. It doesn’t take much to convert people to the good side, and over time I’m finding people to move back to the simple things like RSS, and some of those people will share calendars, and some who will log into latitude every once in a while. It’s a start.
What’s your thoughts?
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