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Re:Google wave invites going for ~$100 on ebay by bhousel on Thursday October 01, 2009 @11:20AM (#855071)
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.
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Re:Google wave invites going for ~$100 on ebay by bkbleikamp on Thursday October 01, 2009 @12:51PM (#855280)
When I got access to Wave a few months ago, it was not possible to associate Gmail accounts with Wave at the time.

I am guessing that with the new rollout, they have made it possible.

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Re:Google wave invites going for ~$100 on ebay by jraines on Thursday October 01, 2009 @01:07PM (#855306)
My Wave username is the same as my Gmail one.
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Re:Google wave invites going for ~$100 on ebay by pohl on Thursday October 01, 2009 @11:27AM (#855092)
If the wave invitation is sent to one's existing gmail account, that shouldn't be a problem. Still, people are crazy with their money!
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Re:Google wave invites going for ~$100 on ebay by bmelton on Thursday October 01, 2009 @11:35AM (#855107)
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.

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Re:Google wave invites going for ~$100 on ebay by bhousel on Thursday October 01, 2009 @11:54AM (#855166)
If you're a developer, what you really want is sandbox access (already free), not an public beta invite...

http://code.google.com/apis/wave/guide.html

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