Mike Southby » wave http://www.mikesouthby.co.uk Microsoft MCSE certified geek and general technology enthusiast Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:37:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Google Wave – Another 10 Invites Available… http://www.mikesouthby.co.uk/2009/11/google-wave-another-10-invites-available/ http://www.mikesouthby.co.uk/2009/11/google-wave-another-10-invites-available/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:02:13 +0000 Mike Southby http://www.mikesouthby.co.uk/?p=1083 As promised, I now have more Google Wave invites available after the initial batch.  If you need one, take a look at my original post for details:

http://www.mikesouthby.co.uk/2009/10/google-wave-invites-are-in/

Enjoy.

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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!

]]> http://www.mikesouthby.co.uk/2009/10/909/feed/ 3 Google Wave – Invites Are In… http://www.mikesouthby.co.uk/2009/10/google-wave-invites-are-in/ http://www.mikesouthby.co.uk/2009/10/google-wave-invites-are-in/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:42:32 +0000 Mike Southby http://www.mikesouthby.co.uk/?p=866 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…

]]> http://www.mikesouthby.co.uk/2009/10/google-wave-invites-are-in/feed/ 38 Google Wave Invite… http://www.mikesouthby.co.uk/2009/10/google-wave-invite/ http://www.mikesouthby.co.uk/2009/10/google-wave-invite/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:10:43 +0000 Mike Southby http://www.mikesouthby.co.uk/?p=622 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!

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