A New year starts and this one will be the year of Google Wave. In this new post we talk about what we expect about Google Wave and everything related.
At this time there are probably few who still aren’t aware about the existence of the new Google Wave platform. Nevertheless we don’t think that a blog that will almost speak exclusively about Google Wave can be considered if we don’t start with a review of what the platform is, at this point. So…
What is Google Wave?
Google Wave is a “personal communication and collaboration tool” that was announced in the past Google I/O 2009 keynote.
Though there’s a lot of controversy about what it will become, we are part of the ones who believe that it will probably change our working methods and significantly speed up the way we communicate.
Yep, but…what is it??
In other words, Google wave is a platform who intends to unify most of the communication protocols that coexist in the internet nowadays ( email, blogs, instant messengers, social networks, shared files…) The result of that is an application that lets the users work way faster since they have everything in the same tool.
Usually that would scare most of us since we have seen that happen before, then google did their greatest move, they made it open source. This means that any company, or even individuals, will be able to install a Wave server and modify it on any way he wants to. All this is called Federation and we will take a closer look in the next post.
Apart from the ones mentioned, Google Wave will have plenty of other functionalities, the ones that could be seen and demostrated in the keynote where:
Applications and extensions:
Almost compulsory in any of the nowaday’s platforms, they know that a very good way to make something grow is to let us developers help them.
Drag-and-drop file sharing: Just pick you file up, drag it to a wave and share it with anyone participating on the wave. Think of it with the next feature.
Embeddability: That’s one of the most important points of the whole story. Nowadays the concept is clear: mails are in mailboxes, blog-posts are in blogs, comments are in blogs, comments are NOT in documents… But all that is possibly going to change, we will be able to embed a Wave, of any kind, anywhere. We will need some further explanation but that will be in a future post.
Enhanced language tools: While writing in a wave the spelling will be automatically corrected ( letter by letter, in real-time ), or translated as well in real time to de language of the other user(s).
Playback: Quite an interesting feature that will let us literally ‘replay’ the conversations, documents or games.
Real time communication: If desired, you will be able to transmit stroke by stroke to the other users what you are writing. In case of games it really looks to be super addictive and playable at the same time by several people.
All these different functionalities are real nice, we bet, but there is no doubt that so many more will come up as soon as developers will start having the chance to get access to a sandbox. If you, like us, are interested on the development of the platform should sign up here
Terminology
From the Google Wave API Overview you can find a nice map of the Wave’s interface showing the different terms that matter to us.
There we have:
Wave: A wave is a conversation itself. Almost everything will happen into it, normal people will speak or together create a document, share pictures, enable robots to do any task from translating to searching in a database of clients or to…
Wavelet: A wavelet is also a thread but this time forms part of a larger thread or a wave.
Blips: They are single messages, the atomic part of a conversation. Still, they can be blipped or… commented
These are all the terms that most of the people will ever need.
This was just an introductory post and since there is not much more to explain at this level of depth we believe that it’s better to leave you with an awesome post that has been for some days in the web already that will definately clear any doubts you may still have.
From now on we will start speaking about how Google Wave works (federation, robots, widgets…) so, if you are interested, stay tuned.
Please leave your comments or corrections.
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What is Google Wave?
At this time there are probably few who still aren’t aware about the existence of the new Google Wave platform. Nevertheless we don’t think that a blog that will almost speak exclusively about Google Wave can be considered if we don’t start with a review of what the platform is, at this point. So…
What is Google Wave?
Google Wave is a “personal communication and collaboration tool” that was announced in the past Google I/O 2009 keynote.
Though there’s a lot of controversy about what it will become, we are part of the ones who believe that it will probably change our working methods and significantly speed up the way we communicate.
Yep, but…what is it??
In other words, Google wave is a platform who intends to unify most of the communication protocols that coexist in the internet nowadays ( email, blogs, instant messengers, social networks, shared files…) The result of that is an application that lets the users work way faster since they have everything in the same tool.
Usually that would scare most of us since we have seen that happen before, then google did their greatest move, they made it open source. This means that any company, or even individuals, will be able to install a Wave server and modify it on any way he wants to. All this is called Federation and we will take a closer look in the next post.
Apart from the ones mentioned, Google Wave will have plenty of other functionalities, the ones that could be seen and demostrated in the keynote where:
Almost compulsory in any of the nowaday’s platforms, they know that a very good way to make something grow is to let us developers help them.
All these different functionalities are real nice, we bet, but there is no doubt that so many more will come up as soon as developers will start having the chance to get access to a sandbox. If you, like us, are interested on the development of the platform should sign up here
Terminology
From the Google Wave API Overview you can find a nice map of the Wave’s interface showing the different terms that matter to us.
There we have:
These are all the terms that most of the people will ever need.
This was just an introductory post and since there is not much more to explain at this level of depth we believe that it’s better to leave you with an awesome post that has been for some days in the web already that will definately clear any doubts you may still have.
Mashable’s Google Wave: A complete Guide
And other useful resourses:
Google Wave API
Google Wave Federation Protocol
Some media
From now on we will start speaking about how Google Wave works (federation, robots, widgets…) so, if you are interested, stay tuned.
Please leave your comments or corrections.
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