“We are going to open up Wave to everyone today” – Said team Google Wave team leader Lars Rasmussen

This is great news. People all over the internet thought Wave was dead, this is definitely not the case. Google Wave is a great collaboration service. With a huge upside for Businesses in the future.

Google Wave is now part of Google Apps.

Dian Joubert

First of all Google doesn’t condone the sale of it’s Wave invites. Secondly, is it worth risking the Backdoor.Tiderv Malware Trojan (some would say yes. Lol). Scammers convince Waver’s that they can earn money by selling their invites to others. (According to Symantec). So keep an eye out for these muppets/scammers.

What does a wave invite look like and how do I receive one?

A wave invited gets sent to your inbox with a link that takes you to a Google page to sign up. That’s it, nothing else.

Here is a screenshot of a Google Wave Invite.

This link will take you to a Google Url

It should look similar to this screenshot:

Best way to get an invite is ask someone you know to invite you. As it only gets sent to your email address.

Dian Joubert
Waving like there’s no tomorrow.

dianjoubert.com@googlewave.com

This will solve a core Google Wave issue. Google Wave groups and access controls are being discussed in the developer “labs” around the globe.

This will give entrepreneurs and enterprises a huge reason to jump onto wave right now in order to prepare the way. This will make it easier to control your wave, users on the wave and most importantly manage a mail list/newsgroup.

Reader subscribed but admin access controlled reader lists is a NEED for Google Wave.

This is still in early development phase. So just hang in there, it will come!

Happy Waving!
Dian Joubert

(Gary asked for a practical real life example of Google Wave in business)

Today’s Scenario:
Lets say you have a procedure for selling car insurance via the phone. Usually prospects would call, the sales person would take them through a script that requires a lot of questions in order to determine exactly what they need and likewise what your business needs in order give a accurate quote. (alternatively they can complete a basic application on-line, however these static pages are exactly that, static. They cannot incorporate intelligent software code that ensures your conversion rate’s sky-rocket)

Possible Google Wave Scenario:
Instead of calling up your department. The prospect can simply go through a wave procedure that can determine exactly what type of insurance the client needs and also capture their information directly into existing your back-end system that would have been entered by the sales agent. If at any time the prospect has difficulty answering a question or basically get’s stuck because they have difficulty explaining themselves via the Wave procedure, they can at that time directly wave the insurance sales person with their concerns, once sorted carry on with completing their insurance application/procedure.

So what’s the result?
Well instead of having one salesman handle one prospect at any given time, he/she can now handle 10+ prospects at any one time. If perfected, you’d probably not even need a salesman any more.

Reality?
Personally I would just follow wave and keep my ears to the ground for now. Wait for the developers to get the systems in place that’s needed in order for you business to easily and cost effectively make the move without hassles (especially for smaller businesses, remember Google Wave is still in Beta). Developers are working on SSL (secure socket layer) for wave, so it will be on the same security as you have with online banking… Remember, Google Wave is OPEN SOURCE. This means that the world will keep on adding and making it better, eventually commercial companies will be outpaced with open source. (I’m talking in years here).

Dian Joubert