Google Wave is a project announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 28, 2009 [see above video] It is a web application and computing platform designed to bring together e-mail, instant messaging, wiki, and social networking, with a strong collaborative focus, mixed with spellchecker and translator extensions, which are able to work in concert, in real-time. It is planned to be released later in 2009.
Learn how to use and build extensions for Google Wave, the exciting new real-time communication and collaboration technology that unifies email, instant messaging (IM), wiki, and social networking functions in one integrated platform. With this book, you’ll quickly learn about the Google Wave Client and how to use Google Wave’s APIs to extend the platform and customize its functions and display.
Judging by the enthusiastic response this technology received since it was unveiled at the Google I/O web developer conference, Google Wave will gain millions of early adopters and organizations in a short time — more than a million users have already requested access to the public preview. Google Wave: Up and Running will give you a good look at this platform, and show you how to build sophisticated extensions for it. Why wait? Get in on the first wave with this book.
Become thoroughly familiar with Google Wave, including its key concepts and terminology
Learn through use cases how Google Wave offers consumers a distinct advantage over current communication and collaboration technologies
Get a hands-on introduction to the APIs, protocols, and resources that will help you develop on this platform
Learn how to develop key extensions (robots and gadgets), and how to embed waves, using Google Wave’s APIs
Great Summery of Google Wave
Here is a preview of Google Wave and a nice overview.
Google Wave can make you more productive even when you’re having fun.
About Google Wave
Google Wave is a new model for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year.
Here’s a preview of just some of the aspects of this new tool.
What is a wave?
A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.
A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.
Some key technologies in Google Wave
Real-time collaboration
Natural language tools
Extending Google Wave
Concurrency control technology lets all people on a wave edit rich media at the same time.
… Wave encompasses more than e-mail. It matches or exceeds the functionality of several major application types, including instant messaging, discussion forum software, wikis, and blogs. Rather, it will eventually, as it moves toward commercial release later this year.
Google Wave is a product, a platform, and a protocol. It’s a cross between conversation and document that allows users to do with one tool what they currently do with many. It works in a Web browser on the desktop or on mobile phones, like Apple’s iPhone or Google Android devices.
Just as Ajax technology has blurred the identity of Web sites by allowing content to be embedded on any Web site, Wave blurs the distinctions between communications modes and between content creation applications.
Writing a Wave is a lot like typing text into Gmail, Google Docs, or a blog posting form in one’s browser. To the left of the right-hand column featuring the discussion, there’s an in-box with other Waves. And to the left of that, there’s a navigation pane atop a list of contacts that looks very similar to Gmail’s layout.
It goes on to add…
Thanks to the federated design, people will be able to contribute to Waves with many collaborators and still mark certain posts private. In cases where there’s a Wave featuring input from individuals associated with several organizations and two participants from the same organizations post privately to each other, those replies can be set to reside on an internal Wave server rather than the Wave server hosting the larger public discussion.
Unlike online forums or wikis, Waves reflect changes in more or less real time: You can see responses appear from Wave participants as the typing occurs, network latency permitting. There is, however, an option to show a reply only after all typing has been completed.
It concludes…
Wave has the makings of a killer app, like e-mail before it. And while it may be tempting to assume that a killer app might put an end to less-capable modes of communication, like Twitter or forum software, Rasmussen insists Google’s goal is to foster connection and communication rather than cull the herd.
Developers, he said, could probably “build a nice integration between Wave and Twitter that would help make Twitter even more popular.”
Even so, as Google Wave breaks and comes ashore later this year, it could leave many applications gasping for breath.
Google engineer David Wang explains how collaborative editing through concurrency control and operational transform work in Google Wave.
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Google’s Campfire One is a series of sessions where they invite certain developers to their campus to talk about their ideas and news surrounding their developments. Last night they announced the Google Apps Marketplace. Which they describe as:
The Google Apps Marketplace makes it easy for more than 2 million Google Apps customers to discover, purchase and deploy integrated business applications and related professional services. By integrating with user account and application data stored in Google Apps, these cloud applications provide a simpler user experience, increase business efficiency, and reduce administrative overhead.
The Google Apps Marketplace supports open standards to provide deep integrations with Google Apps: OpenID for sign-in and identification, OAuth for authorization, and Atom-based Google Data feeds for interaction with user data and domain settings.
The Google Apps Marketplace makes it easy for ISVs to sell integrated apps to a rapidly growing Google Apps customer base of 20 million users from 2 million businesses and universities. You can develop integrations with Google Apps using simple & reusable open standards such as OpenID and OAuth, and have freedom of choice for both billing arrangement and hosting platform.
More than 50 vendors joined us for this launch, including Appirio, Atlassian, Intuit, and Manymoon, who demoed their integrated apps at the campfire. To get started on your own integrated app, visit developer.googleapps.com.
The following 3 videos (30 mins in total) are from the live Google Campfire One presentation:
This is very exciting news for Google Apps. It will certainly be a feature that is a clear differentiator between itself and other Office Apps products suites. Moreover, it certainly gives cloud computing an added punch. Rather than just doing the same stuff in the cloud, you can now sell the cloud as the way to do much, much more.
However, I was a little disappointed not to hear any news regarding Wave. I was so hoping that they had something. I guess I will still have to wait for I/O 10.
Did you watch the Campfire One live presentation? What do you think about the App Marketplace? Leave your thoughts below, we love to hear your comments.
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