Matt Richards

While a few weeks back, in early November if you were to search the interweb the new fad would be to try and dig up a Google Wave Invite. I’ll admit, even I fell into the trap when they announced the grand opening back on September 30 2009. Here’s how my story goes.. essentially when this announcement hit, I knew I wasn’t in the first round as I did not go to Google I/O. So I went and applied for Developer Sandbox access and the Preview invite as well.  However, by a stroke of luck in one of my IRC channels somebody was giving away Invites. I was jumping up and down when I got the word my invitation was on its way. I was nominated on the October 17th, and about a week later my invite came my way.

Now, when I was first given access to Wave, I had no clue what to do with it, so I did what I do best.. Asked around the IRC channels I hang around in. They gave me the “with:public” search pointer, and I was off on my way investigating all these fun Public Waves, and learning all about what Wave really was. Wave is a very intriguing concept, but I see no practical purpose for it at this time. Bottom line, Google has really opened the doors to Wave, its very easy to get invited to the preview these days. Nobody cares about them now. It was OVER HYPED AS GOOGLE DOES BEST.