Is Google Wave getting desperate?

A lot of people around the world have wondered how they should use Google Wave. There has been a general trend of people first clamoring for wanting to get invited, and then not knowing what to do with the service once they get in. I am certainly part of this trend. The problem is that a number of people today don’t have time to find out for themselves how a new way of doing things is useful. This is certainly true of me, at least. If its not obvious to me at first go why something is useful for me, I typically don’t visit that service that often. The same happened to me with Twitter – which I joined in 2007, but didn’t start using regularly till earlier this year, when some of my friends became regulars.

Anyway, back to the topic. It looks like Google Wave is getting desperate for adoption.

I am a user of EtherPad which Google purchased sometime ago. For those of you who don’t know what EtherPad is, it is a web-based word processor that allows for people to work on a single document in “really real-time” and it really does work in real time like you wouldn’t believe it. Their real time technology is of course interesting for Google Wave.

Anyway, today I got an email from EtherPad:

 

The email contains an invite to join Google Wave (I don’t need it because I already am on Google Wave). Could it be that they are not getting enough traction so now they are trying to get people who already are used to working with real time collaboration applications (such as EtherNet) to use their product?

By the way, here’s a very interesting re-tweet making the rounds about Google Wave:

Google Wave was built to show younger people how older people feel when they try to use the internet.

Not sure who is the original person who made it. Anyway, if someone can explain to me how to use Google Wave to do something useful, I will start right away.

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