"Mr. Blount commenced the auction on Tuesday night, and by the time he had woken up at 6 a.m. Wednesday, the day that Google would be releasing Wave invites, his auction had already received 12,000 hits.
As the day wore on, he received about 33 bids for the Google Wave invite, with the winning bid reaching $157".
Here you can read the full story: WSJ:Google_Wave_invites_for_sale_on_ebay
According to Google, Wave is a modern version of email that takes into account all the different types of communication that have emerged and integrates those in a single tool that covers all those types of conversations. A conversation between two or a numerous amount of people becomes a Wave. All contributors to a Wave can add messages, reactions, photo's and other features simultaneously. You can actually see real time what different contributors are doing or typing letter by letter. Contributors can invite other participants to the wave. Those newcomers can rewind the development of the Wave in order to see how it evolved from the start. In May it was presented for developers. Wave developers presentation
Unfortunately I have not received an invitation for Wave yet. But I'll keep on begging for it.... So if you are one of the 100,000: please invite me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Google Wave and Internet Explorer
The Wave development has already been cause for new battleground between Google and Microsoft. Apparently it was impossible to make Wave work inside Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE). So Google gave up on that and instead developed a plug-in for IE - Chrome Frame.
Google pitched the plug-in as a way to instantly improve the performance of the notoriously slow IE, and as a way for Web developers to support standards IE can't handle, including HTML 5. According to benchmark tests, IE8 with Chrome Frame zips through JavaScript nearly 10 times faster than does IE8 on its own.
Specifically, said Google, it was pushing Chrome Frame because it decided it wasn't worth trying to make its new collaboration and communications tool, Google Wave, work with IE. Google developers spent "countless hours" on tweaking Wave for IE, but gave up.
"We could continue in this fashion, but using Google Chrome Frame instead lets us invest all that engineering time in more features for all our users, without leaving Internet Explorer users behind," argued Lars Rasmussen and Adam Schuck of Google's Wave team last week.
Of course Microsoft was not amused that Google decided to "improve" their browser just like that See: computerworld.comMarketing
The way they put Wave in the market is fascinating. They develop a Beta ( Or even Alpha) version, send 100,000 invites. Here's the First reaction I've found from one of the earliest users:
Eerste indruk
Na een paar uurtjes spelen en testen kan ik zeggen: Google Wave is briljant! Het is mail, Twitter, instant messenging, Hyves, file sharing, wiki en een forum in één en het werkt gewoon erg goed. Tenminste, zodra je door hebt hoe het werkt. Het is namelijk niet zo makkelijk als gehoopt. Het kijken van de instructievideo’s is dan ook geen overbodige luxe.
Interesting Links
These are a few examples of how Wave could work in a business environment:
SAP; Collaborative Business Process Modelling within Google Wave
For People that are interested in more in-depth development issues I can recommend:
googlewaveblogger
googlewavedev.blogspot.com
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