After whinging loudly about not having access to the Google Wave preview, Santa GOOG dropped me an invite. Last night I held a Wave Q&A on Twitter; here are the results, complete with screenshots.
I’m no Wave expert, but now that I’ve got my dirty little paws on it I had some insights to share. The question and answer transcript is here, plus those images. Note: Sadly we have no invites to share.
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.
Dion Hinchcliffe: I’m betting that it’s likely to be one of the most interesting offerings to businesses that the company has created yet. With the open positioning, early outreach to the world, and the clarity of purpose and design, Google Wave has a good shot at helping take Enterprise 2.0 to the next level in many organizations.
Could this innovative communications platform be a ‘Holy Grail’ for enterprise application integration? Obviously, it’s too soon to tell – Wave isn’t even available for the public yet — and the use of “Holy Grail” always reeks of hyperbole, but there are others who believe there are enterprise integration possibilities.
“Ray Ozzie (Chief Software Architect at Microsoft) says that Google Wave is ‘anti-Web,’ by which he seems to mean that it is too complex for its own good. In the video he complains about its complexity in relation to Microsoft’s Live Mesh: ‘If you have something, that by its very nature is very complex, with many goals… then you need open source to have many instances of it because nobody will be able to do an independent implementation of it.’ That’s its weakness to Ozzie, apparently — that this complexity that can only be overcome by open source.
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In an ISTEConnects.org blog post, Joe Corbett, online community manager for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), discussed Google Wave and traded blog comments about the application’s potential with other educators.
“I’m happy to put myself on record as having said that all of you who are reading this will use this product in some way, whether it is to conduct classes, arrange social events, or manage your digital footprint,” Corbett wrote.
“… I think having many users collaborating on the same project/document at the same time in multiple languages across multiple platforms opens the door for some amazing cross-cultural learning,” he wrote in a reply to other comments.
“Teaching about France? Plug Google Wave into your wiki and invite French students to work with your students in real time with translations on the fly for both groups. [I'm] sure that can be done now, but not as close to real time as this is and not without a tremendous amount of preliminary communication. It will be easy to jump into collaborative learning sessions anywhere you find them … the possibilities are endless.”
Google’s Wave technology launched at Google I/O recently shows a lot of possibilities and many interesting and very impressive features – but is the world waiting for another Facebook?
The overview of features of Google’s Wave as presented at Google I/O is truly impressive – character-for-character transmission, the ability to integrate pictures, maps, emails, instant messaging, games,… As it will be open-source it also presents a broad platform for a wide developer community to further develop interesting applications.
Several sites have written in-depth reviews of Google Wave. Everybody is wondering what the impact of this upcoming service will be. Here are some articles that are very interesting to read:
Hats off to Michael Arrington from Techcrunch for his awesome interview with the Google Wave team.
After whinging loudly about not having access to the Google Wave preview, Santa GOOG dropped me an invite. Last night I held a Wave Q&A on Twitter; here are the results, complete with screenshots.
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.
Dion Hinchcliffe: I’m betting that it’s likely to be one of the most interesting offerings to businesses that the company has created yet. With the open positioning, early outreach to the world, and the clarity of purpose and design, Google Wave has a good shot at helping take Enterprise 2.0 to the next level in many organizations.
Could this innovative communications platform be a ‘Holy Grail’ for enterprise application integration? Obviously, it’s too soon to tell – Wave isn’t even available for the public yet — and the use of “Holy Grail” always reeks of hyperbole, but there are others who believe there are enterprise integration possibilities.
“Ray Ozzie (Chief Software Architect at Microsoft) says that Google Wave is ‘anti-Web,’ by which he seems to mean that it is too complex for its own good. In the video he complains about its complexity in relation to Microsoft’s Live Mesh: ‘If you have something, that by its very nature is very complex, with many goals… then you need open source to have many instances of it because nobody will be able to do an independent implementation of it.’ That’s its weakness to Ozzie, apparently — that this complexity that can only be overcome by open source.
In an ISTEConnects.org blog post, Joe Corbett, online community manager for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), discussed Google Wave and traded blog comments about the application’s potential with other educators.
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Google’s Wave technology launched at Google I/O recently shows a lot of possibilities and many interesting and very impressive features – but is the world waiting for another Facebook?
Several sites have written in-depth reviews of Google Wave. Everybody is wondering what the impact of this upcoming service will be. Here are some articles that are very interesting to read: