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Waving Hard? You Need WaveNut!

Luis Sandoval — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:30 +0000

Google Wave has taken the online Google community by storm. For many months there was teasing from Google on the development of a collaboration tool that would tie into all of their existing Google Apps, and revolutionize how we communicate with our colleagues, community, and groups. The release of Google Wave was nothing less but…interesting.

Users fell on one of two sides with very little middle ground. You either had the sparkle and glow in your eye of having seen the next best thing for your online work and collaboration efforts or you had the “WTF” moment after realizing that Google Wave just didn’t apply to your needs. In either case, Google Wave has slowly started to gain ground in some circles with book “How To” book releases no doubt on the horizon.

WaveNut has now stepped in to do one thing and one thing only, and that’s make your Google Wave experience as customizable and fun as possible. Seeking out the right the most popular Google apps to attach to your account, read reviews on apps from other users, and help you find the best embeds, themes, and gadgets. Simply stated, this is the modifying search engine for Google Wave.

What’s your take on the Wave? Do you like, dislike, or just have no use for it? I’d like to hear your thoughts and whether you think all the time developing was really worth it.

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Google Wave Federation Begins Testing – Start of SPAM

Dean Sherwin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:20:59 +0000

Google Wave has not been a big hit so far – everyone though it would be…but it hasn’t. The interface is complicated, buggy and unpractical. People aren’t staying long enough to build a community and worst of all – nobody is quite sure what exactly it’s for yet. However the development team are still making strides.

They have just opened up Wave to third party companies by releasing an API package. This allows companies to host their own Wave like services on their own servers and interact with other companies API Waves. This is currently only in sandbox testing and isn’t live on the internet as of yet.

One thing which concerns me is that this could mean the start of SPAM on Wave. Since its launch people have been confined to specific waves but now we’re seeing a growth in access. Although this growth isn’t enough to start a spamming campaign it could be the start of it. I’m pretty sure that soon the hackers and spammers will descend on Google Wave – then it’s up to Google to stop them on a platform which will supposedly be more open than e-mail.

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Big Google Wave Coming Up

Augusto Alvarez — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:23:04 +0000

Well, it’s time. A lot of people have been waiting for this for several months now: Google Wave is releasing 100,000 invitations in the next few days (expected for September 30^th) for enlisted participants.

As we’ve discussed before, Google Wave will give users the chance to manipulate the same content at the same time, and displaying the information in real time for the rest of the users. This collaborative environment can be crucial in developers’ teams. Will be something like this:

I know what you are about to say: how do I get an invitation to Google Wave? Well, there’s no guarantee at this point that you may receive one of the 100k that Google’s releasing, but you might get a chance for a second Google Wave (mid-October maybe?):

Dev guys can click here and enlist to receive one of the invitations.

The rest of the mortals can click here.

And yes, if we receive one of those invitations you’ll hear from our experience.

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Google Wave: Open Source

Augusto Alvarez — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:26:09 +0000

At this point I think that saying that Google released a new and very ambitious project as open source should not surprise anyone. Google officially announced that one of their recent projects, Google Wave, and the protocol involved, will be open source and they expect a lot of contribution from the entire community (I’m sure they will get it).

Google Wave will be oriented to concurrent messaging in a collaborative environment, multiple users can be manipulating the same content at the same time and user activity is immediately visible to other participants. As any collaborative environment and architecture, most of the operations will converge when the server receives the concurrent requests; but the real challenge appears making all that an “invisible transparency” to the user without resigning the usability, functionality and performance.

Will be something like this:

Google says: “To kickoff Federation Day, we open sourced two components: 1) the Operational Transform (OT) code and the underlying wave model, and 2) a basic client/server prototype that uses the wave protocol. The OT code is the heart and soul of the collaborative experience in Google Wave and we plan that code will evolve into the production-quality reference implementation”.

You can even take a peak to the source code of this protocol. And you can check also a nice overview.

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