I have ONE Google Wave invite nomination left

by Tracy on October 14, 2009

Or, I shouldn’t be given so much responsibility

waveIf you don’t know what Google Wave is my friend Omar wrote a really good article to explain.

I woke up this morning to find an invite to Google Wave in my inbox. Better, I got to nominate 8 people to receive invitations, too. Now, I have no idea how this works, if they automatically put folks that were nominated on the short list to get an invite or if there is a screening process or what. Although you know, I don’t think that they can be looking at potential members that closely as I got an invite before my husband did.

Not that I am trying to rub it in or anything.

Of course, I had to invite my husband first, so that’s one down. But, you know, he’s always busy with “work” and Wave is useless, USELESS to me if I don’t have people to use it with that actually make time for me at all hours and are HAPPY to talk to me about my very important stuff so I invited the 6 people who are in my main email conversation gang. We already bullied them all into getting Gmail because we were afraid they’d stop accepting our emails once they figured out we can spit them out at the rate of 20-50 an hour.

I wish I were exaggerating, but no, between the 6 of us we can put out hundreds of emails on just the topic of jeggings alone. Never mind the acres of conversation on what that bitch did. And if you are that bitch, you know you were wrong for that. So wrong.

Clearly, I NEED them to get an invitation to the most wonderful innovation in online communication since Gmail. I know you are reading this Google so please, please, please let my friends in today so we can be cool together. Thank you and thanks for giving me so many opportunities to learn how to get whiter teeth! YOU ROCK!

Seven invitations down and one to go, which is where I am totally and completely stuck. Do I give it to my brother OR my sister OR my dad OR my mom? One of my fellow bloggers? Life coach Tim so he can snort at it? Random person on Twitter?

I mean, because I don’t want to waste it on somebody who won’t use it and I don’t want to give it to somebody and somebody else finds out and they start badmouthing me on plain, old-fashioned email and I don’t want to give it away and then not have any.

I just don’t want it to be over. I don’t want to have none.

I might get more, I might not.  Dangit, I just don’t know what to do. What do I do? Because I don’t want to know what will happen if I make the wrong choice. I’m just not that strong, my friends.

While I try to figure this out, please take a second to vote for me again. I’m already up to 174 votes. So many thanks to those that voted and helped spread the word through Twitter, Facebook and email. It’s humbling and exhilarating to know how many people are willing to help, if you just ask.

And if you make a good case for yourself in comments, I might be persuaded to hand over the last invite. Or I might not. As you can see, I’m pretty attached to it. Also have no idea if it helps or hurts to get a nomination from me, so it’s a gamble.

Related Posts with Thumbnails

{ 1 trackback }

A Whole Brave New World
October 22, 2009 at 9:51 pm

{ 22 comments }

Nathalie Hamidi October 14, 2009 at 8:45 am

I’m the first one to comment, so, really, I should have it! ;)

Nathalie Hamidi October 14, 2009 at 8:47 am

I’m also commenting twice, I mean, who would go to such lengths?? I totally deserve it.

Deagh Dia October 14, 2009 at 11:45 am

You know I graciously gave up my slot for you don’t you Dahling ?

Sergei called and asked my personally to join , told me that since I was on this here internet ever since Al Gore invented and spent goodly half my life embedded in te technology that I was their exact demographic target.

I shun endorsements by proxy though , it’s an abuse of my powerful standing to stoop so low and my public expects more of me . I told ‘Ol Serge that he should give you mine as a test to see what the “6 months ago didn’t know cpanel from c-sharp” demographic could do with it .

You’re welcome !

Kat October 14, 2009 at 12:17 pm

ME! I mean, my husband is fighting for your freedom and all. Hahhahaha….I had to use that excuse at least once. Wave sounds nifty. Hopefully I would be able to invite my hubs if I got an invite?

I also can offer a nudie pic, a limerick, and $3. Your choice Tracy, your choice.

JD at I Do Things October 14, 2009 at 12:57 pm

You have a life coach? What’s that all about?
JD at I Do Things´s last blog ..I Reveal the Results of the Top-Secret Rock Star Bulge Contest so you don’t have to My ComLuv Profile

MadFab October 14, 2009 at 3:29 pm

It’s not that I’m not grateful—particularly if it makes it more efficient for us to talk about what that bitch did and why she was so, so wrong. It’s just that I don’t know what it is! The fact that it’s so exciting is enough for me to desperately want it, but I don’t understand it.

Sort of like gravity. Or rules of social behaviour.

vered | blogger for hire October 14, 2009 at 4:08 pm

203 votes! yay!
vered | blogger for hire´s last blog ..Did Karl Lagerfeld Just Call Me Fat? My ComLuv Profile

Margaret (Nanny Goats) October 14, 2009 at 5:41 pm

OK (*breaks out checkbook*), how much do you want for it?
Seriously, how did you luck out with the GWave invite?
Let me put this more delicately….who do I have to F*CK around here to get an invite!?
:D
Also? I voted for you again.
Margaret (Nanny Goats)´s last blog ..Goat Thing of the Day: Dressing Up Your Goat My ComLuv Profile

aaron October 14, 2009 at 6:55 pm

I have been itching to try this out. Please send me an invite if you still have some. I will gladly pass it on to my friends to spread the wealth. Thanks much.
aaron

Tracy October 15, 2009 at 9:28 am

Still mulling it over…can’t decide!

jan geronimo October 15, 2009 at 12:06 pm

Raffle it out, Tracy. So I’d have a chance. “,) Count me in your long list of candidates.
jan geronimo´s last blog ..27 Reasons Why Jena Isle’s Inspirational Book Rocks My ComLuv Profile

Nathalie Hamidi October 16, 2009 at 11:49 am

Come on, Come on…
Think about all those offers!

Come on, Come on…
Your future with Audrey! (??)

Come on, Come on…
Ain’t no time to turn squeemish!

C-C-C-Come on!

I swear on all my spores…
When he’s gone the world will be yours. ♫
Nathalie Hamidi´s last blog ..Diarrhées vampiriques My ComLuv Profile

Rowan Mangan October 16, 2009 at 11:21 pm

Thanks but it’s ok…. I’m pretty sure there’ll be an invite in my birthday bar of Woogle Gilly’s Don’t Be Evil chocalicious surprise.

Although…… you know, just on the off-chance it’s not there, I should tell you:

I LOVE a good gimmick. And I reckon this might be the big one.

Matt October 17, 2009 at 3:11 pm

You see, I endeavor to create, via Wave, a Google-powered Hive Mind. Therefore, your invite could, quite possibly, be the progenitor of the most ambitious project ever undertaken by man. If you do graciously bestow the invite to me, you can be assured of eternal recognition in the form of this hive mind considering you a brother.

Seriously though, I’d be grateful for the invite and in return, since my account would then have invites to use, I’d reserve one for you to give to someone of your choice – just email me it’ll be done.

Cheers!

Vivek October 18, 2009 at 10:42 am

Hi Tracy, Please send an invitation to me if you still have one left. Thanks!

Tracy October 20, 2009 at 6:57 am

Hey guys, after much thinking I decided I probably should go on and give the invite to somebody who’d actually use it, rather than hoarding it for some unforeseen emergency. So I had somebody on twitter tweet me a number and gave the nomination to Rowan Mangan!

Rowan Mangan October 20, 2009 at 7:12 am

… and I will be eternally grateful!

Thanks again, Tracy!

*votes*
*votes*
*votes*

Jannie Funster October 21, 2009 at 2:14 pm

609 votes for you now!
Jannie Funster´s last blog ..Rose DesRochers: Just how Great IS She? My ComLuv Profile

David October 23, 2009 at 11:49 am

I know Google Wave is supposed to be revolutionary (just like the Segway, eh?) but I don’t like the concept of “live” emails. I’m a writer. And a rewriter. And then I edit. I don’t need 70 people watching me do it. Hmm, sounds like a bloge rant idea for Monday.

I wonder if it’ll really take off. Probably. What the hell do I know? I bought a Betamax.
David´s last blog ..Modern Horror Films My ComLuv Profile

Raj November 14, 2009 at 4:50 pm

Nice article.. :)
I have 3 gmail IDs (one for friends, one only for university related mails and one for employment stuff).. And today i got 2 google wave invites on 2 different IDs.. so now I have 16 invites.. i have already nominated 5 people.. Rest I am gonna pick up randomly.. LOL.. :P

Joe May 31, 2010 at 9:16 pm

Beat the recession. Get informed.
http://www.get-money-online.org

Joe June 1, 2010 at 3:16 am

Beat the recession. Get informed.
http://www.get-money-online.org

Comments on this entry are closed.

blog comments powered by Disqus

Previous post:

Next post: