Did your friends actually get into Wave or are they just on the (very very long) list? There's a huge amount of invite begging going on but it's not clear that these "invites" are worth anything.
They're a waste of money at any price. I hear from a friend who activated his wave account this morning, that you can't create a wave account that has the same name as a gmail account. So it seems very likely that all gmail accounts will eventually be wave accounts someday anyway.
Just today I went through the process of associating my gmail account to my wave account.
As for whether or not it's a waste, if you were a developer looking to leverage the Wave platform, and have not already gotten an invite, I'd guess $100 is a very small price to pay for access.
These are Sandbox invites. In all likelihood your gmail account will become your wave account and the sandbox accounts may or may not stay alive as developer accounts. Spending money on invites is pointless.
No. I've had a wavesandbox.com account since late May or early June. Yesterday in my wavesandbox.com account there was a Wave with a one-time-use link to create a normal Wave account.
These normal wave accounts (@gmail.com) are what everyone is getting now, and are totally separate from the previous @wavesandbox.com accounts. (Yes, one day, probably every Gmail account will be a Wave account - but not for a while).
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Also, this:
- http://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/4506427752Who wants an invite to my Wave? You've got to already have an Apps account @ googlewave.com.
[username]42 at googlewave
As for whether or not it's a waste, if you were a developer looking to leverage the Wave platform, and have not already gotten an invite, I'd guess $100 is a very small price to pay for access.
http://code.google.com/apis/wave/guide.html
I am guessing that with the new rollout, they have made it possible.
Edit: I was wrong. The new invites are for the production server.
These normal wave accounts (@gmail.com) are what everyone is getting now, and are totally separate from the previous @wavesandbox.com accounts. (Yes, one day, probably every Gmail account will be a Wave account - but not for a while).
Edit: I wonder why this is getting downvoted. This seems a completely ok comment to me.
Edit2: A good person just notified me that he has sent me an invite! Thanks dan!