Google Wave invites roll on, remain scarce

The initial hype for Google Wave invitations was massive and ended up leaving those who were left out of the first 100,000 disappointed. The good news is that Google has started to send out a larger volume of invitations again after having slowly trickled them out since the launch.

Google Wave's Steph Hannnon tells us that they are sending out a bunch of invites.

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Google Wave's Stephanie Hannon tweeted Sunday that Wave had overcome some of its stability issues over the weekend and that they were sending out a lot more invitations. As of Tuesday, "Google Wave" is the top trending topic on Twitter and the results are filled with users (including myself) bragging about receiving their invitations and not surprisingly, others begging for one.

The eBay economy for Google Wave invites has been pretty healthy, with some fetching upward of $80 to $100. This big influx of new invitees, all with 8 invitations each, will probably eliminate a lot of the demand for Wave invites on eBay, much like what happened with Gmail invites.

Google Wave invites are going for upwards of $80 on eBay.

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Google Wave will start to become a lot more valuable once more users get access to the site. It seems that Google is trying to roll out Wave to people as quickly as the service will allow, so the wait for those of you who haven't been lucky enough to snag an invite yet hopefully shouldn't be too bad. How many of you have been included in this recent wave (couldn't resist) of invites so far?

[Hunnter2k3]

I was one of the very lucky people to get invited.
Also, no, sadly i can't give anyone invites any more, already used them since a lot of my friends signed up for Wave testing too.

I'm very impressed with it so far.
The only fault i could find with it at the moment is the fact that menu items vanish if you resize the windows too small.
Ideally, they should appear in a drop-down menu.
But that shouldn't be a huge problem, and the awesome thing about it all is no need to download installers when it does get fixed.

[footnotegirl]

Actually, the new invitees (those who got invites from the 8 nominations of the original 100K, aka "the second wave") are not getting invites right now to give out. And we probably won't for a while.

[innov8ion]

I got in this morning and invited like 5 of my friends.

[pbsweet]

I got an invite as well - used them all on my colleagues! It seemed pretty rough - at one point every time I hit enter, it was consuming (not adding!) lines in my wave. But looks exceptionally promising. I'm very excited about it's ability to address online collaboration in an easy and real time fashion.

[nismodrift]

if anyone has an invite please send me one i have google voice invites if anyone wants to do a trade, [e-mail]

[missgothika]

i didn't get my invitation.. it's so sad. does anyone have a spare one for me? marialauraperaltarodrigues (at) gmail (dot) com.

[toolboy7]

It's funny the comments have started going to begging as well. I haven't gotten mine yet, and I'm anxiously waiting :-(.

[craiglist]

Hey if anyone did not get his google wave invite . You can get from here http://clipsbar.com/waveinvite.I am feeling lucky that i got one from there

[solidstategroup]

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