Google Wave Preview Invitation - results!

Gina Trapani, editor emeritus at Lifehacker, kindly previews her own Wave invite and answers a fine bank of questions.

My takeaway from her post:

• Wave combines Gmail, Talk and Docs in one browser window.
• Wave is NOT a Facebook killer
• Watching messages as they created, typos and all, is a true home run.

Check out the full Lifehacker post, with screenschots, right here.

How do I get Google Wave?

Get in line to get Google Wave. My students visited wave.google.com to sign up and the site was s l o w in the hours after the preview appeared on YouTube. Google is keeping this a closed, invite only beta which will build buzz similar to the Gmail rollout.

When you visit wave. google.com you will have to make a choice before your request is accepted:




You get the sense that there will be a priority based on the choice that you make.

Then you toss out some fairly non-invasive demographic info followed by the opportunity to share some freefrom text. Haikus are enouraged.

Google Wave Preview at Google I/O 2009

Roll to about 7:38 for the live demo to begin.