Last night at around 2AM, Ben Crawford and myself were uploading the Google Wave Video to our YouTube channel. The bar said 11 minutes left until the upload finishes.
“I’ve got 11 minutes to get home before the video is up.” Ben said as he put on his bike helmet. He had a 40 block ride down Prescott to get to the house he is staying at while in Portland.
I updated my Twitter:
What is google wave? I’m glad you asked: http://bit.ly/z6PN2 – Now I’m going to bed #epipheo
The next morning LifeHacker and Gizmodo had our video on their front page and since then many of you have said how much you like our epipheo. Thanks for your support. We have no idea how many views the video has received in the last 12 hours as YouTube seemed to stop counting at 638, but if we make it to the top 20 on www.viralvideochart.com Ben owes me dinner.
*update: Ben owes me dinner.
- Jon Collins
Epiphean
Oh Yeah, and we got an invite:
Great video!
I saw the Tweet from @larsras giving kudos to and promoting the video – AND telling you an invite was on the way!
You REALLY had to go and trump the living crap out of the rest of us that were simply begging didn’t ya’?!?
When I get one myself – I hope to be “WAVING” with you!
Until then – have a DYNAMITE Weekend!
KUDOS! Love the video. I’ve wanted something simple and cool to show friends to explain Wave to them. Glad you got an invite from it. Definitely deserved one! Keep some good vibes out there for me to get an invite too..
So, I just got this message:
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FYI: Your email address is now in the hands of the Wave team. It is 6:30AM over there on a Sunday now but I can assure you that your invite will be the first out the door when they resume sending them again. The normal queue isn’t running right now so many people may have added you but there are not going to be sent until some point next week.
Thanks again for the awesome video and let us know if you need additional invites or anything else from us.
-Ryan
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Anyways, I wrote him back with a list of email address and somehow Wes and Parker’s name found there way on there.
Here’s to sunrise in Sydney!
Ben
awesome video on the wave. the one on advertising is very slick too. best of luck on your ventures. i look forward to seeing (and sharing) more (epiphanies).
!! congratulations
did you do a dance of joy?
hey! i’m glad to see you guys got an invite. If you happen to see this message, collaborate with me!!! i’m the only person i know with it and well.. its boring in here alone.
sawyercarterjacobs@gmail.com
love the videos by the way!
We don’t have our invite yet. I guess they are on hold for a bit while some things are being ironed out. Will look you up when we are in.
I absolutely love the Wave video and the one on advertising. The style is fresh and accomplishes being both informative and entertaining. Great job guys!
PS: Have you gotten your Wave invite yet?
PPS: The style choices here make the site very clean and clear to use (including the font in this very text box!)