Google Wave Invite for a haiku
What is Google Wave?
Google Wave 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.
A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.
A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.
How to get Google Wave?
As Ben Parr on Mashable.com put it, there are four ways of getting Google Wave:
1. You signed up early on for a Google Wave account. Google put up a request form for Wave invites not long after Wave was announced. Most of the invites arriving tomorrow will go to people on that list. Your chances improve if you signed up early on and wrote a message to the Wave team. It is unlikely you are among them.
2. You have an account on the Developer Preview of Wave. The Sandbox version of Google Wave has been active for a select group of developers for several months now, allowing them to test Wave, report bugs, and build Wave extensions. They will all get accounts. It is unlikely you are among them.
3. Some paying users of Google Apps will get accounts. It’s likely several companies asked Google for invites when the real-time tool launched. They will get accounts. Some schools that use Google Apps will also get early access. It is unlikely you are among them.
4. You are invited by someone currently using Wave. This is the most intriguing revelation made today by the search giant. Here’s how Google explained it:
“We’ll ask some of these early users to nominate people they know also to receive early invitations — Google Wave is a lot more useful if your friends, family and colleagues have it too. This, of course, will just be the beginning. If all goes well we will soon be inviting many more to try out Google Wave.”
This where we come in. We know that the invites are far and few between so we are making an effort on bringing together those who have invites to spare and those who want them. As there are lot's of people looking for invites, we decided to make it interesting. Instead of just serving invites on a first come, first serve basis, we are asking for the prospective invitees to come up with catchy haikus. It's quite simple really, the better the haiku, the better your chances.
bysimondd [at] gmail.comon2010-02-06 10:52:24
Patience is not good
Impatience is much better
get out of my way.
byhaiwuuzi [at] gmail.comon2010-01-24 14:31:30
Yellow flowers spin.
The slimy, nosy ears trip.
Blue hedgehogs quiver.
byelmartin [at] gmail.comon2009-12-01 23:28:31
You have Google Voice?
I have Google Wave to trade,
want to swap invites?
bygoogle-wave-invite [at] store20.comon2009-12-01 03:33:41
Got nine more invites,
so send us your nice haikus,
invites are waiting
bybryant.mciver [at] gmail.comon2009-11-23 18:23:45
i love google wave
please help me out kind people
you guys are heroes
byenzogazzano [at] gmail.comon2009-11-22 12:45:27
why not?
Google wave it´s my dream...
Google is all...
byelmartin [at] gmail.comon2009-11-20 17:46:08
Ready for playtime,
I await Google Wave now,
Could you provide me?
byelmartin [at] gmail.comon2009-11-20 10:43:12
Google Wave demand
We all must have one today
Hope for life changing
byhotmailac [at] gmail.comon2009-11-18 08:38:46
The things we all do
In an effort to get what
Somebody else has.
byalejandrozepeda [at] gmail.comon2009-11-16 09:18:30
Invitation, please.
I am very eager to
try Google wave soon.
byjonathan.greens [at] gmail.comon2009-11-16 08:39:46
Well, technically
Haiku may be fantastic
but to run what apps
bychristiejenkins [at] gmail.comon2009-11-16 01:42:55
computer, big square
beaming like a sun on me
me - round face, you - square
bymistermiyagi [at] gmail.comon2009-11-15 06:45:12
IE6 lives on.
Box model - and heart - broken.
position: fetal;
bymiguidotcom [at] gmail.comon2009-11-14 19:53:33
Fap is good
p0rn is great
Thats why i need Google Wave
byquiente [at] telefonica.neton2009-11-14 19:29:16
A banana burps.
Goofy farts and piggies pop.
The flowers chortle.
byander.slashdot [at] gmail.comon2009-11-14 19:24:16
even in linux
we have to stay online
so is google wave
byvansebastian [at] gmail.comon2009-11-14 12:45:36
internet wonders
what will they come up with next
so no we just wait
byjonathan.greens [at] gmail.comon2009-11-14 10:26:39
rise of fog and heat
can represent many things
- in my car's backseat
byrahul.battle [at] gmail.comon2009-11-14 05:26:58
Last summer, the time of spring
when the sky was red
and meadoes were green
bythanks [at] keepitup.comon2009-11-14 04:21:40
i got mine today
so now i'm surfing the waves
totally alone
byjosyula [at] ymail.comon2009-11-13 22:31:13
playing by the rules
to be a legal immigrant
many years to wait
byobito.rin [at] gmail.comon2009-11-13 22:24:43
across the
arroyo, deep scars
of a joy ride
bywaveman [at] japanfour.comon2009-11-13 19:38:12
The bees in the breeze,
spreading pollen through the trees,
it spreads the disease...
bygary.robert.owen [at] gmail.comon2009-11-13 18:36:14
pathetic are we
will not wait patiently
still hurry up please
byann.denny [at] gmail.comon2009-11-13 12:55:22
sometimes when i think
it feels like too much to feel
then i think some more
bynirouth [at] gmail.comon2009-11-13 10:03:26
green morning today,
red afternoon yesterday,
blue night tomorrow.
byertanorhan [at] gmail.comon2009-11-13 08:17:39
Please send me invite...
Ä°f you don't invite
I'm going to die
bywasi620 [at] yahoo.comon2009-11-13 04:35:14
really need it
i know u have it
so pread it to the world
byhyr0815 [at] gmail.comon2009-11-13 03:05:35
The season's first frost
The sun reflecting in the creek
Bliss is all around
byzhengiszen [at] hotmail.comon2009-11-13 01:26:33
Autumn in the air,
Sky and leaves still orange,
Early nights
byguillermora1 [at] gmail.comon2009-11-12 20:29:06
This the time
the time for a wave
wave with flavour
bythemilkspectre [at] gmail.comon2009-11-12 18:49:04
Maybe one day soon
An invitation will come
after this haiku
bynicolashasegawa [at] gmail.comon2009-11-12 18:08:37
A student from Kauai
A young engineering major
Wants to ride the wave
bytheorenc [at] gmail.comon2009-11-12 17:54:20
I like the sunset
Never gets old, always hot
Burning forever
byhilelshapirah [at] gmail.comon2009-11-12 17:03:18
Google wave is a wave
a wave in the beach
the beach with waves
byneedone [at] gmail.comon2009-11-12 16:23:38
work is a circus
I trapeze without a net
surrounded by clowns
bygregory.baldini [at] gmail.comon2009-11-12 16:13:07
Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refridgerator!
bychereedy [at] gmail.comon2009-11-12 16:12:29
The things we all do
In an effort to get what
Somebody else has.
byjingles6 [at] gmail.comon2009-11-12 15:57:09
A mourning dove feeds
In a marijuana bush
And sings a high coo.
byivangrigorevich12 [at] gmail.comon2009-11-12 14:32:52
First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
byjekananthini [at] gmail.comon2009-11-12 14:10:50
The Website you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.
bymousemouse [at] gmail.comon2009-11-12 10:48:32
A banana burps.
Goofy farts and piggies pop.
The flowers chortle.
byjekananthini [at] gmail.comon2009-11-12 05:27:43
Yellow flowers spin.
The slimy, nosy ears trip.
Blue hedgehogs quiver.
bylittlebillyme [at] hotmail.comon2009-11-11 23:37:56
Haikus are easy
but sometimes they dont make sense
Refrigerator
bychristrill [at] yahoo.comon2009-11-11 22:30:11
alone, on the web,
drops of sensitivity
embrace an eyelash