Yeah, google wave looks awesome I signed up at their website the day it was announced, but I haven't got anything back from them

I'll be keeping my ear to the ground on this one. Can't wait until it's finally released though.

Good luck. I was in Google Summer of Code this year, and my buddy interned on the Gmail team...Neither of us could snag an invite

You can find them on eBay.

-- Terhorst

Terhorst wrote:

You can find them on eBay.

-- Terhorst

Yeah, for $150.

I'd much rather wait for a kind, fellow Japanese learner to share

If I get an account with invites, I'll be sure to share. I hope you'll all do the same. I really think it could be a great way to make a huuuge database of japanese learning resources.

Is there no other way to find people?

I just have this wonderful picture in my head of a bunch of us getting on wave and starting some Japanese resource waves. What do you think of it? Have you thought of any cool new things you can do yet?

Right now it feels a lot like IM... except you can instantly publish the results to a blog or CMS or some other kind of website. And naturally, you can just drop in things like photos or youtube videos or some of the apps.

I was just playing with it with a friend of mine, and we were both editing each other's replies in real time as we were replying to each other in a wave. It was pretty funny stuff. And the best part is that you can use playback to see who edited what, so you don't necessarily lose any data. It's all preserved.

It's pretty much an open container, which means you can do pretty much anything you want with it. If there's a publishing robot available, it can publish the wave pretty much on whatever destination system you want to-- WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc.

I see it as something that could eventually replace Facebook, to be honest, only more useful. It's not a closed-end system, it has the same kind of extensibility, and it doesn't have all of the annoying bits of something like Facebook. (Not yet, anyway.) And it will eventually be (mostly) open-source, so you'll be able to run your own wave server using the Federation protocols.

I've made a public RevTK wave. Search for 'with:public tag:revtk'.

bombpersons wrote:

YEAH !! Google just sent me an invite =P

nice.  do you have any invites to send out?

Yay! I got one this morning, too How wonderful! As soon as possible, I'll start sharing invites here.

Wow, it really is in the beta stages, eh? It's only been stable enough for me to play around on for an hour or so today.