Playing with Google Wave

After the September 31st launch date for the first 100,000 wave accounts came and went we thought “we're going to have to wait now till it rolls out as a public beta” but I guess we were wrong as on Friday I read my e-mails as usual and in there was an e-mail from Google, which was nice, don't really get e-mails from Google that often and in there was a link to register for a Google Wave Account. After playing with Wave and reading some public waves I started to see what people mean about the UI being a bit weird first of all and the other problem is that as it's a developer preview there aren't many people registered for it, but you do get a few invites (we got 8) so I've invited a few people so we could all start “Waving” together.

One thing we didn't realise until we'd played with Wave was you needed a wavesandbox.com account in order to develop things, so we have now signed up and hopefully we'll get some through soon. It took me a while to figure out how to add contacts to Google wave, particularly robots, while I would of liked to use Bloggy to write a blog with Google Wave it appears you need a sandbox account for this so I did a search and there is a robot called embeddy, or to add it to your Wave account, embeddy@appspot.com, which when added displays source allowing you to embed a wave in your site, so I added it, the only problem is you need a Wave account and you need to be added to the Wave in order to see it.

One thing I did do was write in this blog Wave and in the Wave UI and see them both updating at the same time, which was cool :-)