Google Voice – Invites Are In October 30th, 2009
Seems like it has been a good week for me this week in terms of getting my quota of invites to share on various Google services. Earlier this week I was given some Google Wave invites to share and now this morning when I logged into my Google Voice account, it would seem I now have some there too.
So, just like with Google Wave, I’m giving away a Google Voice invite here on my blog. Leave a comment below if you want/need one, we’ll pick a comment next week and send someone an invite..!
Note: Yes, I’m a UK user. It DOES work over here if you are a little clever with the sign up process although you do this at your own risk. As clearly stated in the EULA this is a US service only at the moment. Great if you have family in the US and want to make free local calls however…
If you’re not aware what Google Voice is – where have you been? – now’s a good time to find out!
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Google Wave – WordPress Integration October 30th, 2009
I thought being as the latest thing is Google Wave, I’d try and integrate a wave into one of my posts making use of the APIs. Remember it is still very buggy (wave integration that is) so don’t be too surprised if this doesn’t work. Also, remember that in order to be able to use Google Wave or even see the wave below you need to have an active account and be logged in, if your not it’ll probably break the post and look a bit rubbish! Here goes:
<<wave now removed owing to lack of support from Google, please contact me if you need further details >>
Here’t the code that I used to make it work:
<head>
<script src="http://www.mikesouthby.co.uk/embed.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function initialize() {
var wavePanel = new WavePanel('http://wave.google.com/wave/'); wavePanel.loadWave('INSERT YOUR WAVE ID HERE'); wavePanel.init(document.getElementById('waveframe'));
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="initialize()">
<div id="waveframe" style="width: 100%; height: 350px">
</div>
</body>
In order to find your wave ID, you’ll need to open Google Wave in your browser and either create a new wave or open an existing one that you want to use, then when the wave is in focus, have a look up in the browsers address bar and make a note of the URL, in my case this is https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252BqjsuPV2cI. Next, take a look at the end part after wave: so, googlewave.com!w%252BqjsuPV2cI. Now we need to substritute the part %252B for a + so my wave ID would be googlewave.com!w+qjsuPV2cI
Hope that all makes sense. Enjoy and if you are a wave user, please add to my wave!
Posted in Announcements, Blah, Blogging, Google, Technology Related, Wave | 3 Comments »
Google Wave – Invites Are In October 27th, 2009
As I hinted in a previous comment, I now have some Google Wave invites in my account.
Now as we all know they are pretty rare so I am not going to be just giving them away as I will be reserving them mainly for friends and colleagues so we can interact on Wave but, I had already decided that I would be putting one up for grabs here on my blog as a thank you for those who regularly read my ramblings. Not sure exactly how I am going to do it, I thought perhaps I would just leave it open and maybe in a week or so, read down through the comments on the post and the best one wins! Seems like the easiest solution…
So, leave a comment below, be as creative as you want (“hello I’d like an invite please” doesn’t really do it…), it doesn’t even have to be on topic, ‘freestyle’ is the key here! Best comment wins. Be sure to check back to see if anyone else leaves something more interesting so you can counter!
Enjoy!
Note: I’m also an active Google Voice user so will soon have some invites for that too..!
Update 29/11/2009 – 10 more invites to give away! As per my comment below, if anyone who has ALREADY commented below still needs an invite, leave another comment just to let me know and you get an invite! Simple as that, first come first served for those that qualify over the next few days, but be quick… Starting on 01/12/2009, the remaining invites will be given away at a rate of 2 a week until they are all gone. I’ll use the same methods as above so if you have not commented on my blog before, please leave me an interesting comment below and you’ll be in with a chance. It doesn’t have to be about anything in particular, it’s purely to add interest to the thread! Enjoy…
Internet Explorer 6 – Going, Going, Gone October 24th, 2009
If you’ve arrived at my blog using Internet Explorer 6, you’ll find that some of the features do not work as they should and the blog doesn’t always display correctly. You’ll still be able to view my posts which of course is the most important thing (well, I’d like to think so…), but you’re overall experience may not be as good as it could be. You’ll also receive a notice to consider upgrading to a new browser.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 was released in 2001. In its day it was a decent enough browser but in 2009 its time is fast coming to an end, a decade is a long time in the IT world and things have moved on. As any developer or coder will tell you, working with IE6 is one of the most difficult and frustrating things to deal with on a day to day basis; it takes up a disproportionate amount of their time. Aside from that, IE6’s support for modern web standards is very lacking, restricting what developers can create and in essence, holding them back from making the web a better, more interactive place.
So whilst not mandatory, I strongly urge you to upgrade your browser, my personal favourite is Firefox, you’ll find the web will look a much nicer place…
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Google Wave Invite October 17th, 2009
So I have been sat here patiently waiting for my invite to come through from the nice folk over at Google and as of yet nothing, absolutely nothing.
Do you think they have lost my address? Could it have somehow been lost in cyberspace? Have they run out? Has the chief invite geek be abducted by little green men? Something tells me I need to cut down on the caffeine at this time of night…
So I was wondering, does anyone have a spare one? If so, invite me over at michael.southby (at) googlemail.com and I’ll be a happy man!
