[mdlug] Google Wave invites

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 12:57 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> rborromeo at the5spot.com wrote:
> > I'll take one if you have one available. While everyone rips on the Wave 
> > you don't know if it really sucks unless you really try it. I remember 
> > when everyone said ICQ was a lame GUI IRC client.
> What I really miss is powwow.
> Powwow was basically Unix/Linux talk (character by character,
> rather than line-by-line, transmission) with split screen

Actually just about everyone I've talked to about wave gives the
opposite as a complaint - that wave is char-by-char rather than
line-by-line.  It is not only distracting to the reader but not
conducive of effective communication for the writer.  People want to
compose a message, possibly rethink it, and then commit to sending it
out into the world.  Who hasn't banged something into an IM line and
then thought better of it?  In real-world applications the moments pause
is important.

> allowing simultaneous typing, but had the advantage that
> unlike talk, it didn't require a talk deamon.
> ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, etc are just glorified
> versions of write(1) (which are "line at a time"
> communications), only with network capability

I think that is a gross over simplification of what IM is.  The concept
of "presence" is critical to every IM, that and much other meta-data
associated with the actual simple passing of messages.

> >>> I have 13 Google Wave invites available to anyone that would like one.
> >>> Please reply off list to my email address and I will get one to you.