Google Broadening Wave Access With GMail-Like Rollout
Sep 29, 2009 at 11:00am ET by Greg Sterling
As we previously reported, starting tomorrow Google will widen access to its innovative communications platform Wave, offering 100,000 new invitations to use the service. Many of these people in turn will be allowed to invite others to join as well, reminiscent of how GMail propagated. (It's wise for Google to allow these new users to invite friends and family because you effectively can't use Wave without contacts on the system.) Those who will gain full access tomorrow will apparently be developers, early users who provided feedback and some Google Apps customers.
My earlier blog post pro [...]
Filed in: Google: Gears, Google: General, Google: Gmail, Google: iGoogle
Google Expanding Access To Wave Soon, First “Hands-On” Impressions
Aug 28, 2009 at 12:25pm ET by Greg Sterling
At the end of next month, September 30, Google will expand the current "developer preview" of Google Wave to roughly 100,000 consumer users. According to Google, "included in this group of early testers will be some of the businesses using Google Apps." In anticipation of this wider release, Danny and I got some time with Lars Rasmussen and the rest of the Google Wave team the other day.
By way of background, Danny and I wrote about Wave when it was first announced earlier this year and then offered some third-party developer observations.
Without doing a full "review," I'll offer [...]
Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google: Gadgets, Google: Gmail, Google: iGoogle, Top News
Google’s New Wave Of Ambition
May 28, 2009 at 3:34pm ET by Greg Sterling
I'm in the Google Wave press conference, following a dizzying keynote -- dizzying, at least, after a night of little sleep. As he did yesterday Google co-founder Sergey Brin joined the discussion and similarly apologized for arriving late.
Danny live blogged the keynote earlier this morning. He jokingly compared Wave to Lotus Notes. In some respects that's not an entirely inappropriate comparison, given the scope of the product and the emphasis on collaboration -- though the Google folks would probably disagree.
Wave seems to be conceived as a total communication and collaboration to [...]
Filed in: Google: General, Google: Gmail, Google: Labs, Google: Mobile, Google: Orkut, Google: Outside US
Google Services Go Down For Many
May 14, 2009 at 12:15pm ET by Barry Schwartz
Currently, many people who use Google's services, including web search, Gmail, Google Reader and other products are either down or incredibly slow for some Google users. For Danny and myself, we are able to access these services with no problem. However, if you look at recent Tweets about Google, you will notice that many people are having extreme difficulty for the past hour or so.
The Google Apps status page does confirm issues for some users. The question is, how many and for how long? It does seem fairly wide spread.
There are more people covering this at Techmeme.
Postscript [...]
Filed in: Google: General, Google: Gmail, Google: Web Search
Gmail: All Your Emails Are Belong To Us
May 14, 2009 at 3:27am ET by Matt McGee
Google is removing one of the most common excuses for not using Gmail: "It's such a pain in the (beep) to switch!"
The company announced a new tool that simplifies the process of importing emails and contacts from other providers, including bigger competitors like Yahoo Mail and Hotmail.
All new Gmail users have access to the import feature via the renamed "Accounts and Import" tab in Gmail Settings. The import feature will be "slowly rolled out" to existing Gmail users.
The import tool currently supports close to 50 email providers. You can see the full list in Gmail Help. [...]
Filed in: Google: Gmail
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