Hi Betty, This was a product decision that we discussed for quite some time, and did not make lightly. In the end, we thought there was more benefit for users in being able to access all Google products with one password and one public identity. By having a new namespace, we'd be asking users to remember yet another username and password, and also having to communicate a whole new user name to friends and family. There are other benefits to using the gmail namespace too: users can carry gmail contacts into googlewave, and as integrations between Wave and other Google apps appear, users won't need to log in twice.
I appreciate that the Google account namespace can sometimes seem pretty full, and it was fun to be able to pick a name in the relatively clean wavesandbox.com namespace - I've enjoyed being [email protected]! However, there are still lots of great names out there. I suggest you create a gmail account now, with a name that you're happy with (something like betty.xlu, wave.at.betty, betty.in.wave, or blue.sky.betty? I'm sure you and your friends could come up with something much better), then send it an email invitation. When it arrives, sign up the new account to wave and you're done. You might also be interested to know that we have long-term ideas about giving users lots of control over how their profile appears in Wave. If you're happy for people to be able to find you, you'd be able to make it easy for them to find you and start waving, no matter what your user name. Once they started waving with you, they'd mostly see your full name rather than your user name, so user names wouldn't be as important. Still much work to do, though, and no guarantees as to how (or if!) it will work out. Cheers, a On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Betty <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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? > > > -- [email protected] / [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
