Augurae, I think it's not so easy to balance such a complex product right from the beginning. Imagine millions of users interacting on a "product in construction" at the same time. Operational Transform is not just your common RDBMS app. First you have to figure out where the borders are and you can incrementally improve...
david On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Augure <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think that their move to prevent power users either devs or not, to > access the most important google product about to be released, even 4 > month after the presention, is not really smart, nor open source-like, > it will only get power users & dev pissed off, and prevent the buzz to > grow especially amongst casual user if there are too few early > adopters. > > Plus, altough wave seems to be a great product, its functions & > principles are pretty natural and easy to adopt, so I wouldn't Be > surprised if other start-ups starts showing up with alternatives. > > I hope the 100k accounts will be enough especially for those who > signed 4 month ago right after the IO keynote, otherwise they really > should send more. > > On Sep 29, 2:16 pm, "Jerry N." <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dislike. > > > > I did have one of those invites.. but they never sent me the user > > name nor password... > > Kinda is sad. > > > > On Sep 28, 1:41 am, Tony Hoyle <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 23 Sep, 23:05, Galen Mullins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > As far as my knowledge goes Wave opens its doors on the 31st. I've > > > > also noticed that the developer form is no longer posted on the wave > > > > website. I submitted my form all the way back on June 6th and have > > > > never received an invitation. By this point are just not doing any > > > > more developer invites because its so close to public beta? > > > > > I even *had* an invite but never got access.. only a very few got in. > > > Mostly > > > developers in the US who could attend a special google presentation I > > > believe. > > > > > > Also will I be able to start developing and posting gadgets as soon > as > > > > it opens on the 31st or will developer privileges still be in limited > > > > distribution? I've been waiting all summer for an invite so never > > > > receiving one after submitting the form in June has been kind of of > > > > depressing. All I want to do is start playing with Google Wave > > > > > I know how you feel - had two months of developer time that I could > > > have > > > allocated to wave, and it passed by with no Wave & now there's no time > > > left! > > > > > AFAIK the 31st isn't 'open' fully it's an extra 100,000 invites (this > > > time > > > to non-developers). Given that they've probably got a couple of > > > million > > > requests in the queue you might get lucky but don't hold your breath. > > > > > Tony > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
