Catching the Wave (Google Wave, that is…)

(Don't skim. Read the whole post. There's a surprise later.)

Just over a month ago, my friend Asheyna sent me an invite to the preview of Google Wave. Since then, I've been going to the site nearly every day, playing with features, catching up on some of the public waves I'm following, and generally just checking things out.

First off, Google Wave is cool.

No doubt about it. It's like a discussion groups forum with document editing and formatting features and bit of instant messaging.

But it's much more than that.

I see tremendous potential for this platform. There are huge numbers of programmers out there already creating plugins and bots for it, and the number of purposes for which one could create a wave seem near endless.

I'm not an expert, I'm not a developer, and I don't know exactly where this new technology is going to take us, but I'm glad I'm getting a sneak preview of it. As users kick its tires and report back to Google, it will just keep getting better and better.

One thing's for sure, though. It had better get a lot faster. Because, at the moment, Google Wave is sloooooow. I mean dreadfully slow. I know it's early days, and I'm willing to be patient, but the speed factor, especially on large waves that have a lot of users and a couple of plugins or bots, is nearly unbearable.

So, I live in hope that this will be addressed soon.

In the meantime, I have some invites for the Google Wave preview to give away. So, I thought I'd set up my first contest. Websites have contests all the time. So why not faltarego.com?

If you would like one of my invites to the preview of Google Wave, then I would like you to communicate with me. Add a comment to one the posts here on my blog, and make it a good one. The more creative or insightful or meaningful, the better.

I have sixteen invites to give away. I only had eight a couple of days ago. Today I have eight more. They're up for grabs.

So, chances are, if you read this, and you want one, you'll probably get it. Because, let's face it, this is a relatively new blog, and I don't tend to get a lot of comments. If I get more than sixteen comments from this post, I'll be pleasantly surprised. But not too pleasantly, because then I'll have to disappoint someone.

So, put your thinking caps on, find a post on this site that you like, and give me a whopper of a comment. And please note, the comment you leave must be in some way related to the content of the post upon which you are commenting. Randomness will get you nowhere.

So, thanks for reading, and I look forward to hearing from you.

Did you read this entire post? If not, go back and read the whole thing. There are rules to this contest, pilgrim…

Mind the gap. And catch the wave.