Watching the Google Wave demo and reading Tim O’Reilly’s enthusiastic review, it struck me how amazingly cool Wave promises to be…and just how paltry most enterprise software remains. Sure, you think: it’s easy for Google to innovate. It has thousands of engineers! Maybe. But I don’t remember Microsoft coming up with Wave, and it has even more engineers. Neither did IBM, Oracle, SAP, etc. Google did, and it started Wave with a small core team of two brothers, a core team that appears to have done much of the work gestating Wave to its currently demo-able state. There’s a very good reason that Google innovated Wave, and not, for example, IBM.
Archive for the ‘Developers’ Category
Google Wave: Why it’s so good and enterprise software is so bad
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009How Google is boosting its innovation efforts
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Internet giant Google is improving its innovation process to ensure its top management hear about the best ideas much faster than before.
The company, which famously allows its employs to spend one workday per week exploring projects unrelated to their job profiles, has set up a structure by which its engineers will now report ideas through division management channels, while chief executive Eric Schmidt will hear the best ideas at internal ‘innovation reviews’.
The meetings “force management to focus” on ideas that could be developed further, Schmidt told The Wall Street Journal. “We were concerned that some of the biggest ideas were getting squashed,” he said.
Google Wave Extensions: An Inside Look
Monday, June 15th, 2009
It’s undeniable: Google Wave has captured the imagination of techies, social media enthusiasts, and web users everywhere. Its combination of email, real-time chat, wiki tools, and social networking have generated an incredible amount of buzz.
While the focus of this buzz is centered around Google Wave’s features, there’s an aspect of the new platform that hasn’t received the attention it deserves: Google Wave extensions, which allow any developer to add their own gadgets or robots to the open-source tool. Extensions offer the potential for Google Wave to end up being used in so many different ways. But what exactly is an extension? Why would someone build one? And how exactly does one go about it?
Thanks to developers Sam Gammon and Nick Hume, we now have the answers to most of these questions. We looked inside the process of building a Google Wave extension, from start to finish and assembled the following guide, which explains the concept of a Google Wave extension, why they’re important, how one can be built, and what you can expect in the coming future.
Read the full article at Mashable.com
Introducing the Google Wave APIs: what can you build?
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Welcome to the Google Wave Developer Blog. This is a new blog where you can learn about the technical aspects of Google Wave, especially the Google Wave APIs and the Google Wave Federation Protocol. In this first post, we’ll walk you through the Google Wave APIs that have just been announced as part of the Google Wave developer preview release at Google I/O.
Read the full post at Blogspot (new window)
Google Wave Federation Protocol
Thursday, May 28th, 2009- Draft Protocol Specification — This is an early draft and will definitely change
- Community Principles — Understand how this open source project works
- Architecture Whitepapers — Learn more about the components of Google Wave