Google Wave

Quite by chance that I got an invitation from a friend on facebook and laid my hands on this thing. I didn't quite understand the concept that I only heard about some friends mentioning it to be quite nice and stuff, I didn't expect much either. But well anyway I went ahead with it and watched like a third of that hour-and-a-half long video. (the length is putting me into sleep but the idea actually quite exciting, that you could do things that are very different and you could actually see a lot of potentials out of Google Wave)

Well I got excited obviously and then I found a big problem here, one that didn't come with gmail when I got the test account: I don't actually have friends to wave with except the guy that invited me and two magically added contact within my I think gmail contact list that had never showed up. It hadn't been a problem in gmail because it's only an email account that you could start sending any email to any people with email addresses, but with google wave, you don't actually have heaps of people to start with because it is a social network and it is invite only... Well like a day and a half after activating you do get a new wave saying that you are now able to invite people, well, 8 people. That's better than nothing but far from satisfying I would have to say, yes I do reckon I will get more invites later but Google Wave is still considered a social tool, and quite dependant on a social network.

In a word I am satisfied with the idea and stuff that come with Google Wave, but not the way that they open for testing like this. I do understand that resources are limited but 'by-invitation' should not be the mode one social network builds up. Facebook did not limit their access by 'invite only', they purchase new resources when it is used up, and btw what is facebook when it gets to the benchmark of 50,000 users? As a giant like Google, Wave should get more resources and open for public testing IMBO.

Well I bet this thing will be banned in China, with its powerfulness that fears its miserable government with potentials way more powerful than current social networks and wikipedia and youtube conbined, literally.