Google Wave

I watched the 1:20h Presentation of Google Wave and I'm stunned by the possibilities.

Especially the automatic translation and the collaboration feature

Has anyone a spare invite ?

Bye bye ICQ....lo.l It looks quite impressive I don't think anyone has an invitation....

For me it's just too.... much.
I even have things like my ICQ client configured to show as few things as possible, because I hate it to have that many features.

Weird? Maybe.

This looks awesome. With the amount of global collaboration that I am involved with right now, I really like "Rosy". If the language supports are solid, this should make the communication channels so much better.

@AlexDeloy - thanks for the post.

If you are interested I know that Leo Laporte's "This Week in Google" has taken a look at Wave in a few episodes. Some developers, folks from Google and LifeHacker have been testing it and debating the possibilities.
http://twit.tv/twig

Hi, sorry to post in such an old post, but when I first watched that video, I requested an invitation. Three days ago, I finally got my invitation, and I played around with Google Wave a while now, but as I know no one else who has an account, I have no one to communicate.
So does anyone have a Google Wave account, too? My adress is lukas.brozio (at) googlewave.com
It'a a bit lonely atm^^

i added you to my account, i dont have anyone else in my list too. quadraxas.quadraxas at googlewave.com

also i have 3 invitations left i cand send if anyone wants[PM me]

Quadraxas is over their Private Topic limit.

oops sorry, fixed

Ha Ha Ha,
this guy is so much copying Steve Jobs presentation style.

Including "We have a surprise today.."

I got also spare invitations for whoever wants.
melonblaster@googlewave.com

So this service is not public yet?
If it is, why the invitations then?

The cloud computing idea is really interesting.
I just worry about Google having access to all private
conversations of millions of people.
Guess the CIA has a direct access set up already then.

Are you worry about that? What sort of conversations do you make?

Mostly about Porn, building Bombs and Nazi talk.
The standrds

I see a general Problem with server based computing to privacy.
Especially when it comes to business secrets etc,
where a competitor of Google might leak first class information
to Google (or any other provider) when caching documents
on their servers.

I wonder if they offer encrypted communication, such that only
clients can deencode the contents locally.

I added you, Quadraxas and Joozey and I opened a new Wave for the three of us.

And no Damocles, it's not public yet, so you need an invitation to be one of the privileged ones who can already use it.

EDIT: I see no more privacy problem that with E-Mails. Who says your E-Mail provider didn't already publish the buissnes secrets you sent by E-Mail?

With eMail there is at least the possibility to
send the contents encrypted.
So the mail-server cant read whats in it.
The clients can decrypt it then locally.
And Email-servers can run directly on private servers.

But Googles approach is even more centralised (one main
Server-grid), and the fundamental idea to store the conversations there
permanently.

I wish that Google would have adressed security concerns
on their presentation.

Security and liabilities are a concern of mine as well. As far having everything on one network grid, my understanding is that Google is releasing the core as open source so your company can set up its own wave service. This can be kept for internal use only or bridged to a similar set up at another company. Part of the looong demo simulated this, showing the platform agnostic capability.

There are still a lot of issues that need to be resolved and plugins that need to be developed. A really good VOIP plugin for example.

I dont think that big companies will use it and that secure meetings will be made with this. You still can use other tools for that, you can setup virtual private networks and use net meetings or whatever.

I see this tool as a good solution for the casual everyday-communication. It can be very helpful.
MSN is such a bad alternative. Exchanging files became worse and worse with every version, it is not reliable and I got spam from blocked persons as well. Wave sounds like the perfect alternative.

If I would be afraid about security, then I would switch to a more private tool.

But who knows, maybe they address this in the future as well with different keys, encryptions and other techniques.

Wave is not only a webapp., its an open protocol, you will be able to host your own wave server if you don't trust google (like you can host your own mailserver)

I also have some invites left if anyone is interesed.

I have access to it, but seems a bit lacking in use. Just a glorified email system really.
Maybe better when more people join.