Google has managed to create an amazing hype around their new product, Wave. Almost everyone who saw the demo of Google Wave at the company’s developer conference a couple of months back went back impressed, but well, it was disappointing for most people when they found out that wave is still in beta and Google is only going to give out a small number of invites for people to check it out.
Not much has changed since that first Demo and Wave is still an invite-only product and if you still don’t have an invite, I’ve got some good news for you.
I have 25 Google Wave invites to give away to readers of this blog. Read on to find out how you can get your hands one.
What is Google Wave ?
First things first, go see the demo video of Google Wave that I linked to above. If you still don’t have an idea of what Google Wave is, here’s the skinny on it.
Google Wave is a real-time collaborative communication platform.
Well, that’s it. That didn’t take too long to explain. Did it ?
The concept behind Google Wave is actually pretty simple and it aims to mimic, as closely as possible, real life conversations that humans have.
Unlike email, real conversations between human beings take place in real-time and that is what Google Wave brings to the table. A user creates a new Wave, add a recipient/user to the wave and the two of them can then have a conversation with each other in real-time.
In that sense, Google Wave is somewhat like instant messaging. Only this is more social, you can have multiple participants in a wave with all participants being able to edit messages and also share things like pictures, maps, videos etc. from right within the Wave.
Google wave is an instant messenger plus a wiki and that still doesn’t exactly describe it completely.
Want to try out Google Wave for yourself ?
We’ve got 25 Wave invites to give away and to get one, all you have to do is tweet this post out on Twitter adding the hashtag #geekyninja and once you’ve done that come back to this post and leave a comment telling us why do you think Google Wave is exciting ?
That’s all ! Really ! This has to be the easiest give away you’ve entered, right ?
Well, what are you waiting for ? Tweet this post like crazy. You’ve got till the 25th of December to do so. I’ll collect all the tweets and randomly choose 25 of you who’ll get the Wave invites.
Please use your real email address while commenting as that is the address we’ll be sending out the invites to.
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