Sudoku anyone?

By Rich Manalang • October 1st, 2009 • 50 Comments

Just testing out a collaborative sudoku gadget from Google Wave. Update: you’ll only see this if you have a Google Wave account. 7 invites left. First 7 to comment gets an invite!

Update: All my (Jake’s) invitations are gone, not sure where Rich is with his batch. Also, the Wave script seems to be borked. It’s try to render at the bottom of the page and failing. Oh well, it’s definitely a “Preview” release. More to come as we experiment with it.

Update 2: Removed the embedded Sudoku Wave because for some reason it stopped working correctly and was trying to load at the bottom of the page.


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  • http://www.facebook.com/paul.pedrazzi Paul Pedrazzi

    Very cool.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/SH3XQM3RGY7JS76ETE35SLDUEI Norman G

    Looks like I'm still in the cold without a Wave account…. Doing Sodoku on paper by myself just doesn't feel right anymore :)

  • http://www.matttopper.com topperge

    Pick me pick me

  • http://theappslab.com manalang

    email me your email and I'll send you an invite rich dot manalang at gmail

  • http://theappslab.com manalang

    sent

  • http://www.oracle.com JordanOAtOracle

    Looks really interesting. I would appreciate a chance to check this out. Thank you.

  • http://theappslab.com manalang

    drop me an email with the email address you want the invite to go to.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/WXS733VAQLHKNM2R7FIOFT6ZHE Puneet Thapliyal

    me too!

  • http://twitter.com/oraclenerd oraclenerd

    me too!

  • http://nbrightside.com/blog Andy C

    9 comments but only 5 requests so far..

    Would like to dip my toe in the water

    andycowl at gmail

  • http://www.asif-patel.com Asif

    can i get the last invite?

    asif328462 at gmail dot com

  • Todd

    I'd like to request an invite newspaperman at gmail dot com

  • http://janetalkstech.com Jane Ullah

    Me! Me!! Dear I'd love to have a Google Wave account.

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  • http://twitter.com/myrnaslist Myrna Weinreich

    Any left? :) myrnaslist at gmail

  • Nik Green

    bummer too late again – anymore invites going?

  • http://theappslab.com Jake

    Got you.

  • http://theappslab.com Jake

    Nominated you.

  • http://theappslab.com Jake

    Nominated.

  • http://theappslab.com Jake

    Done.

  • http://theappslab.com Jake

    Invited you.

  • http://theappslab.com Jake

    Done.

  • http://theappslab.com Jake

    Used my last one on you.

  • http://theappslab.com Jake

    Invited.

  • http://janetalkstech.com Jane Ullah

    That is music to my ears!! :) Thanks so much. I hear the invites are like nominations so I won't get the actual invitation email anytime soon. Right? thanks again.

  • http://theappslab.com manalang

    I've got 4 left.

  • http://theappslab.com Jake

    Yeah, it's a bit odd. You nominate someone for invitation, whatever that means. I got my invite from Paul yesterday, so from what I've seen it's pretty quick. Good luck :)

  • http://empoprise-bi.blogspot.com/ John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises)

    After testing Google Wave (and not just on the Sudoku game), I have some initial impressions. After reading the Scoble/Gray warnings, I've proceeded relatively slowly in looking at waves – and even then, I found that I've archived half of the waves I've viewed. (Or I've TRIED to archive them; again, this is early stuff.) So far it doesn't appear to be a good vehicle for on-the-fly collaboration; unless I'm using it wrong, it works best when person A wants to collaborate with person B, rather than wanting to collaborate with, say, anyone who's interested in Oracle OpenWorld.

    I'm mulling over the advantages of using Google Wave vs. other collaboration methods (e.g. a FriendFeed private group). So far, the two positives that I see are (1) nested conversations, and (2) it's Google (thus tying in with existing Google account, contacts, etc.). Of course, I'm very early in my thoughts, so we'll see how I feel a week from now.

    Now I just have to figure out how to reset that Sudoku game…

  • http://jimpix.co.uk/ Jim

    If you still have one, please may I have one? Thanks!

  • scompany

    Does anyone have any left invite? My email is scomp4ny@gmail.com
    Thank you very much! :-)

  • scompany

    One for me maybe? :-)
    scomp4ny@gmail.com

    I'd be veeery grateful :)

  • scompany

    One for me maybe? :-)
    scomp4ny@gmail.com

    I'd be veeery grateful :)

  • http://theappslab.com manalang

    Invited

  • http://theappslab.com manalang

    invited

  • http://theappslab.com manalang

    That's all folks… all out.

  • http://theappslab.com Jake

    Yeah, it's very early, but so far, I feel a bit lost. I need to go over the how-to videos, which doesn't usually bode well. I'll post some reactions next week.

  • http://empoprise-bi.blogspot.com/ John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises)

    I'm still getting used to the idea (which I first saw in Google Voice) that a green bar on the left indicates an unread item. It's interesting that Google Search is a very clean interface, but Google Wave has all these little bits all over the place.

  • http://theappslab.com Jake

    I don't see a green bar, but then again, I have no unread items. It is a bit busy, but there's a lot happening, more so than with search. It will evolve over time, and the API developers will add different takes on the UI, which should be helpful. I need to put some time into learning how to use it, e.g. why can't I create a public Wave? I followed the instructions and tried different browsers. Weird.

  • http://empoprise-bi.blogspot.com/ John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises)

    My understanding is that the intermittent-at-best ability to create public waves is a bug that needs to be fixed.

  • http://theappslab.com Jake

    Intermittent? That's a stretch from what I've seen. Anyway, we already knew it would be buggy.

  • scompany

    Thank you very much! :)

  • scompany

    How long does it takes till I get invite?

  • http://theappslab.com manalang

    That's up to Google. The invitation isn't actually an invitation… it's a nomination. Sounds like Goog does a little background check before actually handing out an acct.

  • http://cpsadagopan.blogspot.com Sadagopan

    Any more invites left

  • http://theappslab.com Jake

    Rich and I are both out of invites.

  • http://cpsadagopan.blogspot.com Sadagopan

    Any more invites left

  • http://theappslab.com Jake

    Rich and I are both out of invites.