Be Excellent To Each Other

Who told you that? Just click on the paperclip to attach things. You only need gears to drag and drop.

I like the drag and drop function, so do not mind installing gears, but I thought it was a bit broken if you had to install it to attach things - if you can attach them in the normal manner then that's a different matter.

You won't have to forever. The drag and drop stuff will be supported natively in new web browsers, eventually, because it uses HTML5 stuff. But for now browsers don't support that, so Google suggest using Gears as a workaround.

I just tried adding Grim... but Wave reckons he doesn't have an account. Weird. Unless I've missed something I don't know the rest of yours addresses.

I am nik[at]angrycake[dot]com, or possibly bik[dot]norton[at]googlewave[dot]com. Please add me.

Ooooh ooooh oooh, if there are any spare invites going, can I have one, please?!

kpingham [at] googlemail [dot] com

Thanks!

I was invited, so have no invites.

Wave says I don't have a wave account either, when I try to add myself.

Christ the invite system is slow.

I tried, it told me you didn't exist

Hmm, I didn't notice the paperclip before I installed Gears.. My bad!

Wait, try biknorton[at]googlewave[dot]com.

Edit: Yes, that works.

It's manual, not automatic. They are throttling the signup rate to try and avoid crashing it.

All Wave identities are @googlewave.com and although they are linked to the Google account you used to sign up from, they have different names and aren't interchangeable. You can't add my @gmail.com account name in your Wave interface, it won't work. But you can add penllawen@ -- that's my Wave ID. This is probably because in the fullness of time a lot of the Wave backend server stuff will be open sourced and you will be able to run Wave servers on your own kit, so requiring a Google account would be nonsensical.

Grim...'s using his real name because he entered something dumb during the signup phase when it asked him what username he wanted. Grim..., why don't you send yourself an invite to another email address and this time use an alias?

It's T-Mobile's fault.

Aye, I read that, and it makes every bit of sense. I'm still impatient, though.

I guess the invites are on a pretty much exponential curve at the moment, so there's no wonder they're taking so long if the system is inundated with new users and new invitations.

Hoorah, my invitation has come through. Cheers, Mimi

I can't stay signed into Wave and any of the other Google services (Mail, Reader etc.) at the same time. Why?

I can access everything fine until I start up Wave, which asks me for my Google login information. I put in my standard one, obviously shared by all else Google, and it kicks me from the other services. Should I be using some other login information there, instead?

Weird - I'm logged into my domain services (including Mail) and Wave at the same time. Actually, I don't even think I had to log in to anything this morning, maybe Google have finally fixed Chrome's cookie handling.

Indeed. It's weird.



That's what appears in Mail/Reader when I log in if I have Wave open, then it kicks me back to the login screen.

Maybe I'm being dumb and have missed something really obvious here.

Sorted it. Just cleared out all cookies, cache and private data from Chrome. I hate resorting to that.

Thanks Mimi!

throughsilver@

If someone here ever gets a spare invite, then they would be ace if they could invite me (via [email protected])

It sounds confusing but good.

Invited Lave.

Thanks man! You rock!

You must let me win at Outrun now.

My Wave invite came through. Thanks Mimi. Thimi.

As did mine, so thanks again Mimi

consolemad@ had already gone (I wonder if the usernames have to be unique across all Google services as I've got a Gmail account with that name) so I've had to go for consolemad.co.uk@ instead.

Cheers Mimi!!

[email protected]

I didn't get a chance to pick a name; when I clicked on the link it just asked me to log into Wave with my Gmail credentials and it assigned me the same address as Gmail. I don't really want to publish it as its my name. Can I change it?

Apparently not
Maybe once the "settings wave" actually has some settings in it..

I got my invite but god knows what happens now.. It's like an email inbox.. except different.

Yeah, this. I'm clicking on stuff and bugger all's happening.

Press space to replay through the wave chronologically (rather than simply top-to-bottom). It's a bit weird, confusing and sometimes non-worky.

It rarely works in my version of Chrome, that, unfortunately. I don't know if it's a problem with Wave or Chrome's Dev Channel, but both are experimental.

After faffing around for 20 minutes and still getting bugger all happening in a completely non-intuitive environment, I declare Wave a pointless waste of time.

Start up a one-on-one conversation with someone, and perhaps watch some videos of how it works. It's quite cool, and I can easily see the benefits for work communication, but it's baffling being invites into a 250-message long conversation with several participants.

Okay. How? I can't even figure out where and what to type.

Actually no, don't bother replying, I've given up.

Bottom left side there's a contact list. It should already contain the person who invited you. Click on them and select 'New Wave' (ho ho), and the wave window will appear on the right. Type some stuff in there for them. If you want to reply to a message, hover over its lower border and click. It's all very confusing, aye.

You'd think so, wouldn't you?

I think that might depend on if you choose to use a different email address to the one that the invite was sent to.

Most folks that I invited show on mine, but Dimrill doesn't. Was it me that invited you, DM? I can't remember, but if it was you do not show, either.

Malc, has yours come through, yet? Yours was the first invite I sent. What about you, Gill?

Is anyone else still waiting for their invite?

Got mine last night, thankee!

Yes, it was your good self. I've checked back through this thread though and I signed up with the same email that you sent the invite to so I'm guessing it's a Google gremlin.

Did you send me one, Mimi?

ta

Are there any invites left for little old me? I feel really guilty for asking but I'm very very jealous.

How well would a game like Mafia work in Google Wave?

Got my invite, thanks Mimio.

Plan to spend the afternoon tinkering has been foiled by the fact that this PC (work) has IE on it and I can't install the relevant gubbins to make Wave work without Administrator rights which I'll never get. It'll have to wait until the weekend before I can break it and ruin the fun for everyone with my ham fistedness

I'm with Dimrill.

My friend is trying to invite me to this, but it doesn't appear to be working.
Could anyone please waste an invite on poddster HAT gmail.com?

Fear not: the whole shebang seems not to be working today.

I think I got mine this morning, just about to go and find out. Exciting! (I said that in a Stan Smith high pitched voice)

Ah, it wasn't just me then.