Clearly I Have No Friends, At Least Not on Google Wave
Earlier this year I attended the Google I/O conference where they unveiled Google Wave to the masses of geeks. We were all pretty excited and immediately tweeted the news to our other geeky friends so we could feel better about ourselves. One of the perks of attending the Google I/O conference was that we each received a Google Wave developer account. Woohoo! It was all kinds of fun using the developer account until Google finally released Google Wave to the public via an invitation process. Once that happened the developers vacated the sandbox and moved their chatting activity to the production server.
Recently Ann was brilliant enough to wrangle me an invitation for Google Wave on the production server. I did a little dance and got all excited. Then the invite didn’t come. I had to send my goons after this Christopher guy but at the end of the day I had finally received my invitation. Salvation was so close I could taste it.
Now the problem is that I don’t really have any friends on the production Google Wave. I actually do have friends, but I can’t invite them and since they don’t have other geeky friends who invited them I’m left standing alone on Google Wave.
That being said, if you’re a fellow geek and use Google Wave we should connect and then we can talk about how lonely it is at the top. My account is: jeff.walden
As soon as they let me invite people I’ll make a sign-up list and you can all show me how important you are so that you too can be part of this super special club.
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But you’re not alone on Wave even if none of your friends have access just yet – there are lots of public waves available to anyone who is logged in, just do a search to find them! I’ve posted a quick walk-through on my blog at http://www.skyontech.com/blog/google-wave-public-search