Google Wave invites up for grabs

Yahoo! I finally received my Google Wave (Preview) invite. It was ba da bing ba da boom, well almost, to set it up and get it running. The only hiccup was that I had to install Google Chrome Frame, an open source plug-in that brings HTML5 and other open web technologies to get it running on my browser, Internet Explorer 8.

For those unfamiliar with Google Wave, it is an “online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more” and was developed by the Sydney Australia based Google team.

To find out more about Google Wave, please visit these links:

1. About Google Wave
2. The Complete Guide to Google Wave
3. Went walkabout. Brought back Google Wave
4. Google Wave Invites: How to Get them

Now, with Christmas just a stone’s throw away, I’m happy to say, “As part of my invite to Google Wave, I am allowed to give away 20 Google Wave invites. To be fair and equitable, I’m offering the remaining 19 invites only to people listed in my Blogroll. My apologies if I offend anyone by doing this.

So, if you’re interested just send me an email (see my address in the image above) with your email address, preferably a Gmail address, so I can add you to my list.

Note from the Google Team: “Invitations will not be set immediately. We have a lot of stamps to lick.” Another thing worth mentioning is that you must hold a Google account.

Why did I want a Google Wave invite? A: In for a penny, in for a pound, I say, in my quest to spread the word to locate my St Vincent’s Hospital Darlinghurst Classmates of August 1975 and to make it even more easier to converse with my friends. Well, it’s worth trying isn’t it?

To be continued…