I had hoped for the same thing as you did because I was finally able to get my desired username on the wave sandbox :)
But see it the other way around. Imagine you had gotten your desired username a long time ago with GMail. And then Google would let someone else take it over through Wave, you'd not be happy if you then had to create a new Google Account just for Google Wave. Like it's now, it's first come first served, which is fair. You can't make everyone happy. The good thing about this is that you've got just one account for everything Google now (Youtube, Wave, GMail, App Engine, ..) and don't need to remember a different username/password for each service. I guess this also makes it easier for Google since they solved the email problem with this now. Email goes to @gmail, waves to @googlewave. No email spamming your Wave inbox. Did you try thinking of a completely new name? Google wrote that you can just create a new GMail account and use this new gmail account with Wave if you want a different username. I couldn't think of anything (plus me being lazy) so I just went with my old GMail account. At the very least, I read that Google plans to let the sandbox accounts open for quite a while (maybe even forever but they didn't say that) with bleeding edge updates and the handy debug tool for developing, which means that there at least you will be able to continue to use your desired username while developing extensions for Wave or talking to other developers. On Oct 3, 5:08 am, Betty <[email protected]> wrote: > As far as I know, in settings you can change your nickname or display > name, but the username can't be changed. Like this: > > Address: a_clumsy_username @googlewave.com > > Can we change that? > > On Oct 3, 10:44 am, NADIA DOUAJI <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I beleive you can do that under your settings either under your gmail > > account or when you are in the wave when you click on your icon. try it > > out. it worked for me. > > > > Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 19:37:01 -0700 > > > Subject: [Google Wave APIs] Why is the googlewave.com username the same > > > as the google account (gmail) username > > > From: [email protected] > > > To: [email protected] > > > > I signed up for google account quite late, so my username is not > > > ideal. I thought I could have a better username at googlewave.com > > > since it is new, as I had my ideal username at wavesandbox.com. But my > > > gmail username automatically becomes the googlewave.com username. I > > > couldn't even make a choice. I hate that. ~~>_<~~ Why can't we choose > > > a new username since it is at a new domain? > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail > > Free.http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222985/direct/01/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
