Google Wave Invite – A Haiku Contest!

Google Wave is “a personal communication and collaboration tool”.

Google Wave is designed as the next generation of Internet communication. It is written in Java using OpenJDK and its web interface uses the Google Web Toolkit. Google Wave works like previous messaging systems like email and Usenet, but instead of sending a message along with its entire thread of previous messages, or requiring all responses to be stored in each user’s inbox for context, message documents (referred to as waves) that contain complete threads of multimedia messages (blips) are perpetually stored on a central server. Waves are shared with collaborators who can be added to or removed from the wave at any point during a wave’s existence.

Via Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave

Like many Google products they are not publicly available for what can seam like years! Google Wave has been sending invites for a while now and I have been given a second batch. So the last time I announced on Twitter that I had some to giveaway I got more responses than I could deal with. So this time I asked my Twitter followers how I should decide to pass these invites along. Well it came down to a haiku contest.

A haiku is a form of Japanese poetry, consisting of 17 moras (or on), in three metrical phrases of 5, 7, and 5 moras respectively. Haiku typically contain a kigo, or seasonal reference, and a kireji or verbal caesura. In Japanese, haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line, while haiku in English usually appear in three lines, to parallel the three metrical phrases of Japanese haiku.

I have 9 Invited to give away, so if you are interested leave a haiku in the comments and I will pick at random 9 winners on Friday the 13th (spooky).

Feel free to enter multiple times but make sure your entries are different.