Google Wave
3 Dec
I got the super secret, super elite Google Wave invite from my former boss the other day (Thanks, Eric!), but I had to wait until today to try it out since I was busy finishing up my exams. I’m not really sure how I feel about it yet, but I know I need more contacts (which is sort of impossible because of the whole “invite” business). Google Wave is supposed to be the next generation of email and I guess it works more like a chat/conversation (?). I tried to start a “wave” with Dan and Eric (my only contacts) so that I could figure out how it works a little better, but later I asked Dan if he got my wave and he didn’t because it doesn’t email him (which I guess would be beside the point). He had to go to his wave account to see my wave. Hmm. I don’t know about this.
It reminds me of the day way back in ‘94 when we got AOL and my dad was all excited about my having a screen name and he showed me how chat worked. And I was all excited and signed into chat and… had no one to talk to. I imagined that it would be really cool, if my friends also had computers and AOL, but not that many people did at that point. I mean, imagine Facebook with only a few friends. Not fun. Eventually wave will be opened up to everyone (gmail started with the same invite deal), but I’m not convinced it will replace email. We’ll see.
Sometimes I think about all these new technologies and I wonder what my dad would have said about them, geek that he was. Wikis, blogs, twitter, facebook, skype, Garmins, iPhones, google wave… man alive, he would have loved this stuff. Although he liked to be surprisingly grouchy about some things (like cell phones… after he got in a fight with the Motorola people because they wouldn’t give him unlimited minutes for $20 a month). On a side note, I’m headed to Memphis tomorrow for the St. Jude’s Half Marathon, in honor of the old grouch! If you still want to donate you can do so here:
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