Google Wave...A grass roots tool?

[wizardwatson]

If you wouldn't mind, please request an invitation for a Google Wave account via this link if you haven't already. It will take you less than thirty seconds.

Anyway, I know many of us on these boards use Google services as half of the users polled use GMail, via this thread.

Google Wave is a real-time multi-user collaboration tool with a very generous open-source framework, and a simple usable api.

Go to wave.google.com to get the rundown.

I think it would be a great tool for community organizers, as opposed to email/chat/wiki/conference call all as separate entities. There are a thousand uses for something like this and the api pretty much allows programmers like myself to tweak it to where we could add anything from a simple voting mechanism, to a complex multi-player board game. Something which can't currently be done on closed proprietary systems like these bulletin boards/facebook/meetup.com.

Feedback?

There are people on this thread including myself that have invites for Google Wave so maybe if you ask nicely (like I did) you could get one too!!!

AS OF 11/30/09 THERE ARE 34 PARTICIPANTS ON THE MAIN RON PAUL WAVE!

 

[dannno]

Thanks..

I just put in for an account..

 

[ronpaulhawaii]

OK, you convinced me. I can barely keep up with FB and here, but this sounds like something that can become powerful and getting in early will help

Thanks

 

[wizardwatson]

OK, you convinced me. I can barely keep up with FB and here, but this sounds like something that can become powerful and getting in early will help

Thanks

Well, I'm already hooked on Google App Engine. It is a very cool and very free web application platform. Through Google App Engine, Google is essentially giving every web developer 5 million page views per month for free (that's a lot for free).

Now that's great and all and allows developers to do some really cool stuff backend, but you still have to design all the interface, make it collaborative, blah blah. So essentially what happens is many developers play with it for a few months and then don't do anything with it. With Google Wave we get all the interface/multi-user collaboration/storage facility all up front. So Google Wave makes Google App Engine all that more appealing, for me anyways.

Don't want to get hopes up too soon though as Google likes to take their time.

The point of this, is people are always PM'ing ideas for coding stuff, but the problem is that most ideas, even relatively simple ones, require user accounts, secure authentication, database/static xml for storage, etc. Making even a simple collaborative voting widget hard to implement easily.

I don't know if this will be the killer communication platform or not, but it's the best candidate I've seen and as a movement, I think its worth checking out and getting into early if possible.

 

[Ian A.]

Let's not forget You Tube's new "Promoted Video" feature!

Since Ron Paul is big on You Tube, we could make him and his issues HUGE using this tool:

https://ads.youtube.com/

YouTube - YouTube Promoted Videos

 

[mrsat_98]

i want an invite.

 

[dannno]

My friend got an official invite, which allotted him 6 or 8 invites himself.. he invited me, but that did not entitle me to give out invites.


This is pretty interesting, though:


http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/wave/thread?tid=51ab1dba08130519&hl=en

http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-data-api/browse_frm/thread/6a2a8fac9735280e?pli=1

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/wave/thread?tid=086ffe5c31ab70e6&hl=en

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/wave/thread?tid=2f11d9f4df3dc801&hl=en



Anybody know what's up with that?

 

[Austin]

watson, what's your email?

 

[newbitech]

i mentioned googlewave a few weeks back. I need a user account. I also applied for the sandbox aka developer account.

if anyone has a user account with invites please send to my handle at gmail.com. thx!

 

[FunkBuddha]

If anyone has an extra invite I'd appreciate the hell out of it. I've been wanting to try this out for a while now.

 

[RonPaulVolunteer]

Would appreciate an invite too please. I run 3 libertarian groups and could really use this. Please PM me if you can extend me an invite. Much thanks!

 

[UtahApocalypse]

I have 8-10 invites available. Please let me know if you need one and will be serious about using it has a powerful grassroots collaboration tool.

I think back about the "Ames Ad" design night on this board and imagine what Wave would have been like for projects like that and others.

 

[axiomata]

I've got 20 invites. PM me with your email.

And a heads up, it appears the invitations won't go out automatically once I submit your email. It says:

Google Wave is more fun when you have others to wave with, so please nominate people you would like to add. Keep in mind that this is a preview so it could be a bit rocky at times.

Invitations will not be sent immediately. We have a lot of stamps to lick.

Happy waving!

 

[Bryan]

Wave is a game changer. IMO, it will take a few years for it to really get out there, but it will change online collaboration / social networking. Part of the benefit is that you will have a universal wave login to track all the discussion across the web that you are interested in in one location. I am willing to guess that within two years vBulletin will integrated into wave, as well as some of the standard blogs and other CMS systems.

I've got a wave account but have not received any invite offers yet. PM to get me on your wave contacts.

 

[RPTXState]

Waiting at my email for the invite to be sent out

 

[Captain Bryan]

Anyone who has a Wave account send me a PM so we can connect.

 

[wizardwatson]

Anyone who has a Wave account send me a PM so we can connect.

Do you have a Google Wave account? We're all waiting for somebody to invite somebody that's on RonPaulForums.

 

[wizardwatson]

Wave is a game changer. IMO, it will take a few years for it to really get out there, but it will change online collaboration / social networking. Part of the benefit is that you will have a universal wave login to track all the discussion across the web that you are interested in in one location. I am willing to guess that within two years vBulletin will integrated into wave, as well as some of the standard blogs and other CMS systems.

I've got a wave account but have not received any invite offers yet. PM to get me on your wave contacts.

Oh, so when you do get an account they don't give you like 50 invites or whatever? Bummer, if that's the case.

 

[wizardwatson]

Holy Crap just read the rest of this whole thread, people have invites!!!!

Ah! Somebody send me one!! PLEASE!

wizard watson at g mail dot com

 

[Captain Bryan]

Doubt I'll ever be able to invite anyone.. but if I get to i'l probably save 3 for my friends and you guys will get the rest.