Comments on: Early thoughts on Google Wave

By: Josh Shear

Josh Shear — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:06:43 +0000

Wave invites do appear to be readily available on eBay, but selling the invites is against Wave’s TOS, so I wonder if there’s a chance either they could be pulled or users found to get their invites off of eBay could be booted someday.

I like the way they roll out new products. It took a long time before I was sold on GMail, but I really am now. Maybe Wave will be the same.

By: Patti Smith

Patti Smith — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:05:40 +0000

For those interested, you can buy invites on Ebay pretty cheap.

Google did the same invite only process with gmail and everyone had to have it. Once everyone was using it, they opened up their membership. They are no dumbies. They know the best way to get people to want their product is by telling them they can’t have it.

By: Josh Shear

Josh Shear — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:04:56 +0000

I don’t think Wave will be the next big thing, but I do think it’s going to be a game changer in that other services that do similar things — like Go2Meeting, Blackboard, etc. — are paid applications.

Wave may very well be behind these technologies in terms of usefulness, but the fact that it’s free and, being a Google product scalable and with a near-immediate mass audience, we could see a shift toward pared-down corporate and teaching tools that until now have been out of reach for some public school systems and small businesses.

By: Shane L.

Shane L. — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:04:03 +0000

At first blush, I thought this might be “the next” social media tool down the road.
You turned down my request for an invite though, so I have very limited knowledge (kidding! : )

I was wondering if you saw any potential for “next big thing” status during the trial.