Finally I’m in, I got my invitation for Google Wave! After creating the first Wave pages I can say that the system looks really cool and I’m very happy that it’s browser based and not some Windows desktop application.

Why should I use Google Wave?

First what people asked me after I told them about Google Wave was: “Why should I use it and what is so special?” If the same people are already on Twitter and/or Facebook it’s easy to explain; It’s like Facebook, Twitter or MSN. Google Wave is a tool to share your content with other friends in real time and also private communication tool. Currently is Google Wave a preview release and I’m sure we will see much more features before the system is out of a future Beta period. I think a lot of people are missing the function to publish their content to others users without adding them to a conversation and you can’t discover stuff or profiles from others. On the other site there are already features like real time content updates and adding content is very easy and powerful. Adding content is like creating a word document with abilities to add images, links, gadgets and attachments.

Gadgets are allowed but there is no function for YouTube videos

As I said before, its possible to add gadgets to your Wave. Add Google maps, simple polls and many gadgets from the google gadget gallery. Since Google Wave is in an early state, not every 3rd party gadget works and adding gadgets is limited. The first thing I noticed is that there is no standard function to add YouTube videos to your Wave. We (finalwebsites.com) created a small YouTube Gadget Generator to create your custom YouTube Video object. Using this generator it’s possible to create a gadget from every YouTube Video URL.

Google Wave Invitations available

We like to share 10 Google Wave Invitations with our blog reader. If you like have one, post some nice comment why you deserve one of the invitations. We publish the most creative responses in the comment list below and we give away the invitations in a random order.

Invitations for Google Wave are send via the interface from Google wave. There is no code or something we can send via email or this website. If you like to get invited, provide your e-mail address which is connected with a Google account or your Gmail address. Post this e-mail address with your comment and mark this address: “My Google account is …”

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