Google Wave ready for wider testing
Google Wave is ready for wider testing.
(Credit: Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET)Google Wave is ready for its next step: a more thorough test of its scalability and stability as more than 100,000 new users crowd onto the service.
As promised, Google plans to open Google Wave beyond an extremely limited preview on Wednesday, granting access to users who have signed up in hopes of getting a chance to try the service. Google received more than 1 million requests to participate in the preview, said Lars Rasmussen, engineering manager for Google Wave, and while it won't be able to accommodate all those requests on Wednesday it is at least ready to begin the next phase of the project.
Google Wave is an attempt to re-engineer Internet communication, blending elements of e-mail, instant messaging, social networking, and workplace collaboration software into a single Web application. It was first unveiled at Google I/O in May before Web developers who were a bit dazzled by the possible uses of the technology.
At present, however, Google Wave is one big bug bash, perhaps half a year away from launching as a stable product. Google engineers have solved many of the more persistent bugs that were hampering the product a few months ago, but there is still a long way to go and Wave should not be considered anything but a "preview," Rasmussen said. Still, that's better than "developer preview," the status previously attached to Wave that implied only hardcore techies should venture within.
In addition to the developers and waiting list, Google also plans to open Wave up to a limited number of Google Apps enterprise customers for testing, Rasmussen said. A few companies, such as SAP and Salesforce.com, have already started playing around with the technology but Google is seeking feedback from other organizations on how Wave might work within their environment.
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1. allow people beyond the 100K limit to at least be able to check Wave out.
2. allow people/developers to see some of the cool things that can be done with HTML5.
I doubt it will happen, so I guess I'll just have to wait like everyone else...
I think it's good that they're rolling this out slowly... otherwise the user experience would just be terrible and might backfire on Google.
Anyway I am hoping I am one of the lucky ones.
I'll test the ^%~! out of this!
I'm just hoping one of my friends gets in as well, it would be a bit pointless if they never.
I should hope they are taking this in to consideration when adding new people, unless of course they have an "Invite Your Friend" like they did back with Gmail.
* Phone numbers and other contact info for all of your friends, family, and business associates.
* The incoming phone numbers of everyone who calls you.
* Your opinion of all of these people (based on group classifications, whether you listen to their voicemails, etc.).
* The contents of all of your SMS messages, which are sent in clear text.
* The ability to monitor all of your incoming and outgoing voice calls & messages (in order to provide you with relevant advertising content, of course).
* The ability to combine all of the above with the contents of your email (if you use Gmail), your search history (which is retained when you are logged into any Google service), your news preferences, etc. etc.
So...still think Google Wave is "free?"
If you have to hide things from anyone, it is quite sad, actually.
Enjoy the brave new world, then.
Still hiding something you don't want others to see, no matter what spin you put on it.
>I agree this is disconcerting - in addition to logging your searches and scanning your email (Gmail), now Google will have access to all your personal contacts and communications. It's a bit much I think.
Logging can be turned off and cookies blocked.
Gmail scanning emails is client-end.
They ALREADY have access to your personal contacts and communication.
Gmail isn't some magical thing on the internet, it is a website hosted on servers in Google's buildings.
Hell, pretty much single system ON the internet is run through some sort of middleman.
You go through several servers yourself just to get here. Any of those servers could be compromised, it has happened before countless times.
One of the root internet servers IPs had been hijacked for years by some group that just vanished and nobody knows what information they took with them.
You automatically don't have privacy just by connecting to the internet, every single thing you do is going through your ISP
In most cases, they won't even begin to argue with the governments in requests to hand over information.
I'd click that Disconnect button in your modem / router page pronto, else your ISP might gather information about you! :O
Not to mention all those double-illegal wiretaps you DON'T know about.
Well then gamer, you don't have anything to worry about, do you?
Besides, you've already gladly given Microsoft all your dox, haven't you?
I know certain Americans seem to struggle with that concept.
2) Aren't you talking about Google Voice? That is very different than Google Wave, which the above article is about
It would not be hard to fake your entire on-line existence to make tens of millions a year.
But Bernis Madoffs is probably one of the best con artist on the planet, there are probably better ones who did not do a wobble and held the nerve or got bailed out by the government. If there was not a financial crisis no one would ever discovered his schemes. The fact he manage to con so many intelligence people he should congratulated for teaching them a lesson.
That either is a "duh" or makes no sense. "As promised" suggests something has already occurred, but the thing that you are saying as occurred "as promised" is future plans that Google probably will - but has not yet - perform(ed).
get from here http://clipsbar.com/waveinvite.I am feeling
lucky that i got one from there
- by haikaladli October 30, 2009 10:57 AM PDT
- Google is always making innovations. Moreover ChromeOS will be present at the end of the year ...
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