If you haven’t read yet I am famous on the Google blog >

Also I have added a menu to the site with some popular links. Enjoy it while it lasts as I don’t particularly like it and it may vanish soon.

Speaking of site features, I have a comments section after every post. After receiving several emails and facebook messages about a post the other day I thought maybe no one had noticed it. Well it is there and am happy for you to use it as a soapbox.

1.This should be on gmail as well, the option to have a message delivered to the recipient at a set time in the future. This would be useful for sending reminders to other people, digital time capsules and at least a million other things. Such a technology existed in the late 90s when e-cards were popular, the options were “send now” or “send at future date”.
Why is this not standard these days?

2. As seen in this video, it would make cooking so much easier and creative. Pamela Fox suggested it be a gadget not a bot (as I originally concepted). Currently rethinking it and more on that to come…

As far as I know there are tons of interior design applications and all of them are rubbish.
My idea is you upload photos of areas of your house to a Wave gadget and change the colours of the walls/ carpets etc straight onto the photos. You would be able to add furniture into the picture straight from an Ikea (for example) catalouge and if you gave dimensions of the walls, this could be used to position things as well as feng shui. Being on wave means you could work with family and housemates to find colours and furniture everyone likes.

4. Whenever you leave a job you get a big card signed by everyone in the office, which you lose at work drinks before getting a chance to read it. Wouldn’t it be better to have that card online so you could access it later?
My proposal is a wave gadget with ecard templates which coworkers can decide on and then decorate using photos or drawings of the person leaving. When everyone signs the card with their personal message there is an option to leave a link to your facebook or linkedin account so you can stay in touch. When everyone has signed it a designated person would publish the card and add the leaving person to the wavelet.

5. Imagine if Protools or a similar company made a Wave Gadget which allowed multiple musicians to upload and mix together their tracks in one place.
No more emailing different parts to each other just one place to mix the music, discuss the lyrics and potentially even publish straight to Myspace/ Purevolume/ Lastfm when finished.  Instead of paying for expensive mixing software each song could just have a 5 second soundbite at the end promoting the brand who made the gadget. Would be perfect for start up bands and school music projects.

This is my idea to use Wave to make my life easier. A Wave bot which detects food names from your conversation and adds them to a gadget which suggests recipes. If a supermarket chain built this they could deliver the missing ingredients to your house!

Read more about it on the Google Developers Blog >

photo by @gadgetfarmer

Last night we went to this thing at Google (that’s me in the red cardigan). There were lots of geeks, and pies.

I still have yet to establish how this product will be useful for non-nerds, can you think of anything?

I started a public Wave asking if there were any girls around, and if so where they all were (I have only seen posts from men). The first response I got was “tits or gfo”, but before I could even read that and cringe another man edited the comment out (and also sent me some cool women to talk to on Wave).

It was like the XKCD comic below:

I was pretty sure I would be in the first round of Wave invites; I signed up in the first hour, the company I work for spends lots of money with Google, I get invited over there for lunch etc. But it seemed they did not like my haiku and I missed out in the first 100,000.

So next plan? Dress up like a surfer and go down to the Sydney Google offices and ask Doctor Wave himself for an account… and it worked! (Photo above Doctor Wave and Anna Rose).

I’ve given out four of my invites to those who I speak to on gmail/ share calendars etc with already, but have four more invites to give out so if you’d like one go to annarosekerr.com/wave and find out how to get one.

I will post a review of the system when James gets his invite and I actually have someone to Wave with. Exciting!