Geekology has 10 Google Wave invites to give away!

In case you haven’t heard of Google Wave yet, it’s Google attempt to create “what email would be if it was built today“.

Waves (Google Wave messages / documents) are fully collaborative in that participants can edit any part of the Wave, see others’ changes in real-time as they are made, and play back past changes to see how the Wave has grown over time.

This video does a pretty good job of explaining the basic idea behind Google Wave:

According to Google, a wave is:

Equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps and more.

Shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

Live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

Additionally, waves feature:

Real-time collaboration. Concurrency control technology lets all people on a wave edit rich media at the same time.

Natural language tools. Server-based models provide contextual suggestions and spelling correction.

Extendability. You can embed waves in other sites or add live social gadgets, thanks to the Google Wave APIs.

Playback. Users can playback any part of a wave to see changes in the order that they occurred.

Drag-and-Drop File Sharing. To upload a file to a wave, simply drag it from your desktop and drop it inside the wave (requires Google Gears).

Applications and Extensions. Developers can build their own apps within waves.

Open Source Code. The Google Wave code will be open source to foster innovation and adoption amongst developers.

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A more in-depth description as well as several screenshots can be found in Geekology’s review of Google Wave, here.

Invite giveaway

Google Wave is currently in a limited invite-only preview (just like Gmail when it was released), but Geekology has 10 invites to give away to its readers. To stand a chance of winning one simply follow these instructions:

  1. Follow Geekology on Twitter
  2. Leave a comment on this post with your Twitter username
  3. Tweet the following status update: “Geekology.co.za is giving away #google #wave invites: http://geekology.co.za/gwi (via @willemvzyl). Pls RT.

Winners will be selected randomly on Friday, the 6th of November 2009 and notified via Direct Message on Twitter.

Good luck!

 

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31 Responses to “Geekology has 10 Google Wave invites to give away!”

  1. Sergei Müller Reply 31 Oct 2009 at 01:37

    So… Does this mean I get an invite? Hit me up on @sergeimuller

  2. Zoezoepuffs is following you for the google wave invite!

  3. Jonathan Wolf Reply 31 Oct 2009 at 01:42

    @dokuritsuzero

  4. Just RT the message!

    My twitter username is dbdraper.

  5. twitter @golinko

  6. So, just for clarification, will the winners be selected randomly from among those who meet the conditions? @y4140

  7. italianomonkey Reply 31 Oct 2009 at 08:35

    Awesome! Been waiting for a long time for this!

  8. waiting for the google wave invite!

  9. @revmak man, I will name my next child after you if you can hook me up with a google wave invite. Singing in my best James Brown pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease

  10. italianomonkey Reply 31 Oct 2009 at 09:28

    @italianomonkey

  11. Twitter user: lrossouw

  12. Twitter account: martijniglo

  13. Twitter: ishahid

  14. Joost de Boer Reply 31 Oct 2009 at 10:11

    Twitter username = @pflanzerholz

  15. I would like to receive an invitation for google wave. Twitter @gbergling

    Thank you…

  16. @Richard A: Yes, I’ll choose 10 random winners. :)

  17. Happy Halloween to everyone! Please add my name to the giveaway list! A Gwave invite candy would be great for trick-or-treat ;]

    twitter username: mrigankroark

  18. Yes please – Would love to get an invite.
    @simonbotes on twitter

  19. Over 15 tweeps already … we all want what can’t have, still gota give it a shot! @christina_em7

  20. Well, I suppose it won’t hurt to try. :)
    My twitter username is @pamQ

  21. I’d love an invite too….

    Twitter account: @paulmaunders

    Thanks!

  22. @thecrazycoder would LOVE to have an invite!!!

  23. Hi guys, I would like to get one of these invitations!! My Twitter name is @arantxaguilera
    Thanks and congratulations for your page :-)

  24. GWI seblief: @wpeenz

  25. jairo gonzalez Reply 02 Nov 2009 at 11:54

    hey i really want one invite pleeaseeeee
    @c0mikita
    pleeeeaseeeeee!¿

  26. tweeted and follow

    @addeviant

  27. I would love an invite @pankajs

  28. @ewanjrc
    Rt & followed

  29. @mannonc

    GL everybody. ;p

  30. Hey everyone!

    OK, the competition’s closed, and the lucky winners are…

    @paulmaunders
    @pankajs
    @simonbotes
    @dbdraper
    @lrossouw
    @dokuritsuzero
    @mannonc
    @zoezoepuffs
    @gbergling
    @addeviant

    Congrats! I’ll DM you on Twitter to check your email addresses.

    After Wave invites are sent out, they can take a few days to arrive, so be patient. :)

    Come say hi to me on Wave when you get your invite!

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