Google Wave Now Open To All

tonyfugere writes "After a year of testing by invitation only, Google Wave has been opened to the public. From what I have seen, it looks like it could be beneficial for documenting brainstorming sessions beyond simple instant messaging protocols." (Google Wave is "also great for entertaining the masses," says tonyfugere, who links to the slightly NSFW demonstration below.)

Re:Surf's Up!

[John Hasler]

> I'm still unsure exactly what it is I'm supposed to be using Google Wave
> for.

The video makes that quite clear: creating a hideous garbled mess of crap.

To quote Triumph

[Sycraft-fu]

"Shhh, shhh, shhh, listen, listen closely, hear that? It's the sound of nobody giving a shit!"

Re:My best fit for Wave;

[natehoy]

A few of mine tried. After a couple hundred messages, you have to type each character and wait a second or two before you can type the next one.

I finally gave up when it started taking me more than a minute to type a short sentence. I started longing for the incredible speed of BBSes and my old 300-baud modem.

Re:My best fit for Wave;

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's see the kidney first.

Re:People are using it?

[dsavi]

Maybe this will lead to someone actually knowing what Google Wave is. I never thought I'd see the day.

Re:My best fit for Wave;

[D Ninja]

Some friends and I have used Wave for a LOST discussion group every week, and it's pretty bad by the end of each episode

The Wave or the show?

Re:Been using it for months

[fahrbot-bot]

I have been using Google Wave for months now.
It works well once you figure out how to use it and for what you can use it effectively....

I thought the same thing about my penis.
Admittedly, I can't share MP3s with it, like Google Wave, but other collaboration is a go...

Hell No- I Won't go!

[cffrost]

The link you actually care about
http://wave.google.com/ [google.com]

Haha yeah, that's the link you care about if your some kinda AOL newbie saving up to help that Nigerian prince. Nice try BitZtream, but I seriously doubt anyone on Slashdot fell for it! =)

Anyway, here's the real link guys, for geeks that care about their dignity:

https://wave.google.com/wave/ [google.com]