Comments on: Sudoku anyone?

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:35:06 +0000

Rich and I are both out of invites.

By: Sadagopan

Sadagopan — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:21:19 +0000

Any more invites left

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:35:06 +0000

Rich and I are both out of invites.

By: Sadagopan

Sadagopan — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:21:19 +0000

Any more invites left

By: manalang

manalang — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:17:31 +0000

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.

By: scompany

scompany — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:06:44 +0000

How long does it takes till I get invite?

By: scompany

scompany — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:32:22 +0000

Thank you very much!

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:43:18 +0000

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

By: John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises)

John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:19:05 +0000

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

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:15:59 +0000

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.

By: John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises)

John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:08 +0000

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.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:21:28 +0000

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.

By: manalang

manalang — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:57:15 +0000

That's all folks… all out.

By: manalang

manalang — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:56:49 +0000

invited

By: manalang

manalang — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:56:33 +0000

Invited

By: scompany

scompany — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:23:59 +0000

One for me maybe?
scomp4ny@gmail.com

I'd be veeery grateful

By: scompany

scompany — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:22:07 +0000

One for me maybe?
scomp4ny@gmail.com

I'd be veeery grateful

By: scompany

scompany — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:20:23 +0000

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

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:02:35 +0000

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

By: John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises)

John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:59:06 +0000

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...