Day 2 with Google Wave

I got my invite just 2 days ago. I woke up at my usual time of 4:45am and checked my 10+ emails over the night starting from 10pm. Twitter, Facebook… Google Wave?! Awesome! I woke up excited and ran to the computer.

I made my account and that was about it… I had to shower and make my breakfast before heading out.

Later that day, I sent out a couple of tweets about networking on Wave. I have a few contacts already but from what I gather, this Wave is a lot different from the original one I had imagined. I thought Wave would be a stand-alone web application that can be integrated on other hosts and servers. One that could be put into blogs using APIs and then run on our own servers. But after diving into Wave, it feels a lot more “corporate.”

I use the term “corporate” loosely. Working in big pharma, we are entirely corporate, using programs like SharePoint and Net Meeting. Well, Wave reminded me of these 2 programs only for the “public” rather than an internal network. With SharePoint and Net Meeting, you can type/draw/present in real time and share documents, update blogs or other news. Same with Wave. It is an easy way to share information with people (that you choose) and to get feedback that everyone else can see. No more teleconferences, just Wave.

But there is 1 big problem. Wave is in beta right now and invites are limited. Which means your contacts list is fairly small unless you try and reach out there and network. Because of this problem, I can’t fully utilize this program and need to wait until more of my friends are invited. OH! And I only get 8 invites? And those invites aren’t really invites but are nominations instead? And my friends won’t get them right away? Nice…

If you would like to add me to your network on Wave: kurteng [AT] gmail [DOT] com