Mike Southby

Nary a day goes by, naught a moment is spared, from the fitful ruminescences of past battles. Delving deep into the hive of the the mind flayers, dueling blades with a duergar… All long ago, but not forgotten. Though the RPG’s be but homebrew, In Google Wave, I pray my bliss be.

(I suck at poems)

At my college we use a different tool for working on our projects online.
Its free and needs no installation since its online, go to www(dot)showdocument(dot)com
pretty useful for me since i usually do my projects on the laptop. -chrisman

Thanks Chris, although I am trying to work out if that’s a request for a wave invite or just a link to another collaboration tool! Worth remembering that Google Wave is also free and also hosted on-line so needs no installation either. OK so it’s still in preview phase but should hit market later this year..! I predict that when it does, it will probably upset a lot of other vendors who already have similar tools, such as the one you suggest. Thanks.

Hey my name is Godwin and I’d like an invite to Google wave. Maybe you were just wondering what type of name is Godwin? and where did anyone come up with that name? well I’ll tell you LOL (shhhh its not even on my blog yet).

When I was born I had a problem, not the usual ones (I don’t know what usual ones are but mine wasn’t it). Well I don’t wanna keep you in suspense for too long….when i was born I couldn’t pee…i know it sounds funny now but at the time it wasn’t LOL. Something inside my body wasn’t connecting properly and so the doctors had to do a surgery on me. That being said the likely hood of my survival was very slim.

My mom was crying and my dad comes up to her and says, “don’t worry honey God won’t take away our baby this time” (my mom had a miscarriage before me). And right when my dad said that the surgery was over and the doctor came and told my parents that it was a success and I will live. My dad figured that it was no coincidence that the surgery stop right when he mentioned god. So he decided to name me Godwin because in this scenario God won.

LOL hope that was creative enough for ya…and hope to get an invite my email is Gwin390(at)gmail.com …and for the record I am happy my dad named me Godwin and not Godwon that would be awkward.

Well, I can not think of anything creative to say really. Hopefully you don’t think of me as a selfish person who wants Google Wave all for himself. You got a nice blog here, much better than the one i tried to start and ended up sadly ditching. I started a forum on Google Wave though.

I guess i will tell you a joke.

Why do ducks have webbed feet?
To stamp out fires.
Why do elephants have flat feet?
To stamp out burning ducks.

I actually thought that one was funny. Cheers, and have a good time waving!

hubridnoxx@gmail.com

One fine day in England, there lived a boy called Elliot. This boy, he was as curious as the most curious thing. He was so curious, he was itching to try out the new Google Wave, and craved an invite from somebody generous enough to send one out. In fact, he was curious enough to shout his email to the world, so that anybody who saw could invite him. His email was elliot.bateman@googlemail.com. He then waited patiently for that generous somebody to come along. The End.

as I wrote in my blog over and over, it’s a shitty thing what Google did, and you Mike is not any better! You aren’t any better than those dickheads selling invites at 10$ a pop instead you make people jump through hoops, I work for a multi-national billion dollar company and I signed up for an invite years ago! I should have gotten one, the waverse ain’t fair my friend..

anyway dude, I give up, I am gonna die old and lonely with no wave to comfort me so be it,

cheers,

Zach, I’d like to be able to see your comments but notice that you choose not to add your blog URL.

So you’re not too keen on what Google are doing? well, I guess that’s your prerogative but it seems to me that actually you are very keen on using Google Wave, and your negative tone stems from the fact that you do not yet have an invite and feel bitter about it. If you’re so uninterested why are you browsing blogs that are offering invites? As for me not being any better than Google, I find that quite funny actually. I too waited a long time for invite; now I have one. I have given away the invites to my friends and colleagues so that I can use Wave as it was intended but, I do have a couple spare so thought I would offer one here on my personal blog. Notice the word personal, it’s my blog and I’ll choose what to do with it thanks. I’m certainly not asking people to jump through hoops; all I have asked is that people leave a comment, if they wish not to then I am by no means forcing them. You’ll also notice in my post that I said it was for my regular readers, I was purely hoping for a bit of interaction with some of them, I always think blogs should be more interactive.

I find it interesting that you feel you ‘should’ have an invite simply because you work for a multi-national billion dollar company – so what. Google is offering invites on an invitation basis for a reason. Firstly, they were given to those in the community who have contributed to making the development successful. Secondly, those initial developers have been given invites to give out to further the development and testing. If everyone were to be simply given access then the system would simply collapse, it’s still being tested and is not ready for sheer volume of users yet. Let’s remember that it isn’t even in beta yet. I agree with you in regard to people selling invites, that’s not really what it’s all about but again, what some people choose to do with them is their business and if you are so against it, just don’t buy one.

Let’s hope you get an invite soon before you ‘die old and lonely’, I’ve given my girlfriend the task of choosing who’ll get my invite so who knows, she might find your post riveting enough to get mine, although personally I feel being so negative is not the way to go; being that you work for such a large company, why not send an internal memo asking if anyone has a spare invite, statistically speaking I’m sure you’d find someone who’s willing.

Thanks for your comment.

Zach, I understand your pain, but perhaps this is a small indication that the world is not quite so driven by money as it is communities and contribution now, that seems like a good thing :)

I wouldn’t have called posting a creative comment ‘hoop jumping’ it is more a fair exchange for ‘encouragement’ to get involved in Mike’s community. I wasn’t actually going to post for an invite originally but Mike’s considered reply to you compelled me to join in.

As much as I am sometimes skeptical of Google’s motives they certainly are doing some impressive things, in particular I watched some of their live conference last night, they were discussing how to leverage technology to create a new paradigm in education. Using a real time moderated question system was a very nice touch and added greatly to the sense of involvement and value of participation.

Nice job on your blog Mike :)

I’ll ask my better half to have a look in a weeks time, so the 5th of November and get an invite sent out to whoever she chooses. I’ve heard that a lot of users are now also getting some additional invites, 20 I believe, so if I do get any more I’ll ensure everyone else who has posted a comment gets one if they still need one; can’t say any fairer than that!

I’ll admit that I am merely a casual/occasional visitor to your site, but you’ve enticed me sufficiently to suck up for a Google Wave invite. Having read your previous posts I think you may enjoy this witty riddle:

If a man has a bee in his hand, what does he have in his eye?

I will share the answer with you during our first Wave conversation…

Thanks for the opportunity at scoring an invite!

By the way…I know you are an Android fan, but have you seen the full version of Google Wave running on the new Nokia N900 with Maemo? Pretty awesome! Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqd2WCFc6mg

I’m sure Android will catch up soon…props to Nokia for building a device that beat Google at its own game.

Mike,

That Google Wave invitation deserves to go to a good home. A home that will care for it, nurture it, and love it like its own. At my house we a lonely wedding invitation just waiting for a new friend to keep it company. I’m sure they’ll get along just swell. I promise I will feed it, and play with it, and get online with it everyday.

Best,

Travis
travis.sari@gmail.com

thed00@ymail.com

Can you send me an invite please mate,,,interested in using at my new job, this will stand me in good stead

My wife’s birthday is February 14, so you can imagine the panic I feel every year as Valentine’s Day approaches. Do you find it difficult to surprise your wife or girlfriend with just the right anniversary gift? Well, that is nothing compared with having to select the ultimate combo gift — Valentine’s Day plus Birthday on the same day! And let me tell you, we are way past flowers and candy and jewelry — those are just the expected starter gifts. The real gift has to be something unique, something rare, something valuable. The real gift this year must be a Google Wave account. Please help me make my wife happy by granting us the Google Wave invite. I promise to keep it warm and safe with regular use until it is formally gifted to my wife on Valentine’s Day, er birthday.

I’m surprised no one has resorted to bribery…I guess begging is cheaper.

if you care to give
a wave to me would be kind
my thanks you would have

I’ll see your haiku and raise you a limerick…

It is what I desire, google wave
Nothing else every day do I crave
If Mike’s wife is nice
Like sugar and spice
I promise forever to behave

Hi Mike, the first thing that came to my mind, when i saw the Google wave roll out on Google IO, is the way i used to chat with my girlfriend (now my wife) using a shared text file hosted on the network…. :D

I will also commit myself to contribute to the google community with my suggestions by testing and covering as much of wave as i can to make google wave a better thing to use for us all :)

Hi Mike,

I am desperately looking out for an invite, can you please invite me. my e0mail address is aashshah@gmail.com

Hello sir, from the far depts of the reagons on all of the earth, you are the savor of those who are in need of the Wave of mercy, to release us from the death grips of facebook and of the wrath of myspace, I bow now to you in request of a saving hand of mercy to show me the light and dawn of a new era of social networking. Please oh great one, pass down your holyness so that I may bask in the glory of Wave… Please ohh please if you find it in your heart please send an invite to Schmitty23@gmail.com.
Thank you and may the breeze of the Wave clear your path from the dark ages of social networking.

Eric

OK, the boss has spoken. I asked Vicki to have a look through the comments and choose one – I honestly had no input on her decision. I asked her to choose based on a couple of factors; firstly I was hoping for a few creative comments, something different from the norm, I have seen so many sites now with comment fields full of ‘can you send me one’ lines which don’t really add much interaction to the site. Whilst I don’t expect everyone too, it’d be nice to think that some of you will come back and interact with my blog again; certainly I’ll be checking out your sites if you left a URL. Secondly, whilst I’m more than happy to give away the invite to a new reader, or just someone casually passing through if the comment was interesting enough, I always thought it would be good to give it to someone who is a regular reader or someone who has contributed something to my blog/post.

There were a couple of comments which she really liked, some made her smile and some were just weird but her final decision has been made.

So, Russell, the invite is going to you based on your contribution to the thread, leaving 4 comments and interacting with my blog as I had hoped. Also, I’ve been told to tell you that the decider was that she wants to know what he has in his eye!?

I’m now down to 3 invites from my initial batch, which I am holding on to for the next few days as I am waiting to hear back from a couple of colleagues who I think may well have already been invited, so, it’s quite probable that I will have at least another to give away in the next week or so.

It would seem that Google are also giving away extra invitations to some Wave users after they have used their initial allocations, the second time around they are giving 20 invites so I have been told (I have friends who have already had a second batch…) so, please do check back as if I get these, I’ll give 10 away on here straight off; I won’t start a new thread if this happens, I’ll just pick off names from this thread and contact you to see if you still need an invite. If so, they are yours.

So, please continue to leave your comments and details and I’ll hopefully distribute some more wave invites soon!

Thanks all.

I replied to you directly through email (with a request to have the invite sent to a more personal email address). Thank you so much for the invite, I am really getting excited to start riding the Wave!

As for what he has in his eye…I will give you the answer in a wavelet after I start up Google Wave. Any guesses?

Hi Mike,

I am sincerely hoping that you would get those additional 20 invites :)

my Lord please send me an invite of Google wave at atulmaheshwari8@gmail.com

Please see updated post above, 10 more invites are now available – Comment away :- )

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Please, Sir, I want some more.

I am really excited to get an invite. Been hunting for one since they launch with no luck. bummer. Hopefully I could get one off you. Thanks man.

I have a large ***** and need a Google invite to survive

Peace

Hi,

I would much appreciate a google wave invite. I’m a CS major in my senior year and I believe google wave can help me and my project partners collaborate our projects more efficiently and instantly.

I’m not sure if you have any more invites left, considering all the other invites you’ve sent to people, but if you do have some left, I would greatly appreciate it if I can get one.

Thank you so much,

Hiten Lad

Hey,

I am interested in helping google fix out bugs on the wave platform. I am a high believer of integrated technological interpersonal communication on a higher level. I would be very greatfull if a Google Wave invite is sent to me chrismacias@gmail.com

Thanks for everything

Pretty please with a cherry on top!! Would very much appreciate an invite!

1. I once watched 4 epiosdes of Cracker and 3 of Prime Suspect all in a row. Yes, I’m still alive….

2. Check this movie out: Kontroll

3. Portuguese is a beautiful and under-rated language

Oh and an invite would be much appreciated, thanks!

Thanks for giving away the wave invites Mike!
I got my invite from google….

Please send me an invite of Google wave
at 666.dust@gmail.com

Thanks

I’ve been ill for the past few weeks with Swine Flu so have not been able to keep on top of comments and send out the Wave invites… So, I have just sent out 4 for the last 2 weeks they are for:

Sergei, Kelly B, Hiten and Chris Macias.

More to follow! Keep the comments coming…

Hey, first I want to say awesome blog. I don’t always agree with your posts but it’s always a interesting read.
Keep up the great blogging.

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