Google is all about children's shows this week.

Well, I say kids shows, because I can't think of a better term right now. I wouldn't really say Wallace and Gromit are strictly for children, because of their huge popularity with adults, myself included.

At any rate, two children's favourites had their anniversaries celebrated by Google this week. The first being the 20th Anniversary of Wallace & Gromit followed later by Sesame Street, which has been on the air now for 40 years now, making it as old as the moon landing and, indeed, the network that would eventually become the Internet.



One suggestion, in case anyone from Google Ireland are reading and looking for image ideas for the google.ie front page, would be to also celebrate another children's (and adult) favourite, Dustin the Turkey who will be 20 this Christmas and would have won last years Eurovision were it not for the intervention of Vladimir Putin.

Anyways, thank you Google for rekindling fond childhood memories but also for souring them with the realisation that said memories were a considerable time ago.

For anyone else who reads this and feels the same spare a thought for Oscar the Grouch, 40 years living in a dustbin, or worse, poor Bert, 40 years old and still sharing a bedroom with his rubber-duck loving brother.

Googlewaveinvites.com is toast

http://twitter.com/googwaveinvite/status/4778886944

Google told them to stop. My theory on all of this is that Google's servers aren't up to the task. Hence the reasons invites can take up to a week to send.

And I was only 54,956 on the list to receive one - oh well!

Cool Twitter & Social Network Marketing Pack

Got this in my email this morning from Hubspot. The guys who run the well handy Website Grader site.

It's a full set of videos & PDFs on how to market yourself using social networks and on Twitter. Pretty handy.

Right - I'm going to stop begging for Wave Invites now...

Because I couldn't keep my big mouth shut I'm now starting to get Wave spam from scammers. You click through and site says: "Oh I'm sorry the invites are gone - but while you're here..."
Yeah, yeah, I get it, fuck off.

It was stupid of me to follow the link in the first place. Thankfully it was only a site trying to scam me. Others are far more malicious though.

So if you're in the same boat as me beware of emails trying to redirect you to sites offering invites.

Couple of articles I found on "Google Wave Scams":

One

Two

Waaa!!! I want Google Wave NOWWWW!!!

Cast your mind back to when you were a child and how you looked forward to opening your presents Christmas morning. Imagine yourself jumping out of bed, sprinting down the stairs and diving beneath tree, tiny clawed fingers at the ready to cut wrapping paper to ribbons and feast your eyes upon all those marvelous presents.

Now imagine there's nothing there.

That's sort of how I feel today, having looked forward for months to the debut of Google's new Wave service only to find no invite in my stocking. I guess all I can do is just sit tight, obsessively refreshing my Gmail and performing sleazy solicitations for invites on forums and blogs.

...Refresh again...no, nothing, ok, Publish Post....