I have no invite by the way. Will someone turn the freakin’ lights on please?

Google wave could be just that. I have a few different waves going on at the moment and I can easily dip into each one and know the kind of people I’m talking to and what the purpose of it is. There are those that are more ‘professionally’ focused and those that are purely social. I find this incredibly useful and a way of intergrating my contacts from different platforms into one dashboard.

It is the ability to tailor and create your own mini social networks within wave that is the big plus for me. In this respect, it might even be a competitor to sites like ning. We are no longer happy to just participate in social media, we want to be creators and this is where the Velvet Rope theory plays its part (I think!).

@Mike Maddaloni – I get as much enjoyment from reading the contents of the Google Reader as I do sharing them and when I share, I always try to add a comment to lend context to the original reason for sharing. That part – that personal recommendation to my circle of friends – is what makes it so powerful for me. Give it a whirl

@Peter Kim – First, thank you very much for commenting! Second, I see what you mean by the rope strategy when applying it to apps in private-beta. However, I think in this instance, even when the Wave opens to the public – users will still be able to create *private* Waves that they can build out with or without select members of their private network.

@Chris – You’ll get past the novelty aspect soon, I promise!

(Do see that ‘additional reading’ link above, well worth a look)

This post was mentioned on Twitter by Whatleydude: “About those velvet ropes – a post about Google Wave” – http://bit.ly/2BdHac…

But I do realise the potential, and when I have some invites to give out I’m looking forward to inviting people I can collaborate with on a few projects. I think it’s one of those things that I’ll eventually wonder how I did without, but at the moment it’s still a bit of a novelty.