Presentation for Third Tuesday Ottawa on October 23, 2009. My personal opinions only; not associated with CISTI.

1. Google Wave Richard Akerman October 23, 2009 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/

2. Wave Dev in Ottawa http://www.ottawawavegroup.com/ Ottawa Wave Developers Group Next meeting November 5, 6:30 PM, Code Factory WaveCamp (“hackathon”) November 28, Code Factoryhttp://ottawawavecamp.eventbrite.com/ LIMITED SEATS http://www.googlewaveblogger.com/ David Cook

3. Will Wave Collapse? Google Wave = next Google Mailor Google Wave = next Google Knolor Google Wave = next Google Orkut

4. Direction the wind is blowing? Google Wave the web app Google Wave the protocol Enabling applications to be collaboration-aware Google Wave as HTML 5 pathfinder And HTML 5 driver (e.g. Google Chrome)

5. Message in a bottle Explicitly described as reinvention of email Google Wave as tool to solve internal Google communication challenges, based on data from Gmail & Gchat – from the Google Maps developers Remember: engineers like efficiency But also remember: inventors don’t necessarily know what they’ve invented… trying to see what the uses are and testing the limits of the system

6. Treasure Beneath the Wave Ideas from Google (Lars): Ads “almost certainly” add Wave to Enterprise bundle APIs The following is my wild speculation: Google Wave as part of the Enterprise offer? Undersea ecosystem? (Wave apps store.)

7. First and Second Wave 1st round = 100,000 who each got 8 invites 2nd round therefore = 800,000 who currently have zero invites You can request a regular account online Go to wave.google.com and click “Request an invitation” You can follow @googlewave , @twephanie and @larsras

8. No Overlapping Waves Developer’s Sandbox = WaveSandbox.com “Please keep in mind that WaveSandbox.com does not currently interoperate with users on wave.google.com” Separate form to request a developer account. Preview = wave.google.com (pre-beta) “much much more demand than capacity right now” - @twephanie, October 14, 2009 Their major major focus is scalability and stability. Some of the features demoed in the sandbox are NOT available in the preview.

9. Terminology Wave = an entire discussion Wavelet = subsection of a discussion Blip = individual “post” Extensions: Robot = software that can join as a “member” of a wave and act upon the wave’s contents (e.g. Rosy Etta translator bot) Gadget = “plug in” that you can add to a particular blip (e.g. Google Maps extension) – a further development of existing Google Gadgets

10. More resources Google Wave Developer Bloghttp://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/ Google Wave 1 hour audio interviewhttp://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?i=61846984&id=326657491from http://supernovahub.com/2009/10/backstage-with-the-google-wave-team/