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I've never seen a good summary of Google Wave. Anyone hear a good one?

by gsiener 17y ago

gibsonf1 17y ago
It is basically a combination of real-time instant messaging (where each letter typed can be seen as it is typed), email, and collaborative document editing all in one. You can have as many people typing and editing at the same time as you want - which can be very entertaining actually among curious hackers goofing off. The key though is that each conversation is contained in a single object, the wave, and you can add as many participants to that conversation as you like, including "synthetic" participants or robots. Right now robots have to run off Google's app engine and you can write them in either python or java (we chose clojure on top of the JVM). You can also add "gadgets" to the wave, which are client side objects that all participants can see (in the same state) and when the state is changed, all participants see that change as well. Additionally, the wave is tracked temporally, so that you can "replay" the conversation as it occured.
- gibsonf1 17y ago
  So what we are doing is using a Robot to transfer information between our webapp and Wave and inserting gadgets to give views back into our webapp, etc. Robots are a very powerful idea.
- derefr 17y ago
  What I've never understood is how this is any different from IRC with a bunch of handy bots (esp. a logging one) sitting in on the channel.
  - Zaak 17y ago
    In Wave you can edit previous text.
    - derefr 17y ago
      You could do the same with the logging bot if it supported line-editing command messages, then just put a GUI on top that translated the visual-editing commands to line-editing semantics. I'm not saying any IRC server/network I've ever seen does this now, but it's not out of the plausibility range and far easier, I think, than pushing an entirely new protocol. But I digress: perhaps I should just set it up myself and see if it really can be done.
  - misuba 17y ago
    A wave isn't a flow of synchronous text (or asynchronous posts, for that matter) - it's a standing unit of editable text + widgets + threaded comments. Sort of live-wiki-ish.
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Keyframe 17y ago
gmail meets twitter meets gtalk meets wiki meets pingback - with a twist that you can have web pages a client to wave so you can show there your feeds too and that typing can be seen real time on the other, recipient, side. Oh and add to that that there can be multiple participants. Participants can be robots too, and you can mash up all of that into multiuser game kind of experiences.
- old-gregg 17y ago
  ... and it's gotta be about jobs creation too!

I've never seen a good summary of Google Wave. Anyone hear a good one?

by gsiener 17y ago

I've never seen a good summary of Google Wave. Anyone hear a good one?

It is basically a combination of real-time instant messaging (where each letter typed can be seen as it is typed), email, and collaborative document editing all in one. You can have as many people typing and editing at the same time as you want - which can be very entertaining actually among curious hackers goofing off. The key though is that each conversation is contained in a single object, the wave, and you can add as many participants to that conversation as you like, including "synthetic" participants or robots. Right now robots have to run off Google's app engine and you can write them in either python or java (we chose clojure on top of the JVM). You can also add "gadgets" to the wave, which are client side objects that all participants can see (in the same state) and when the state is changed, all participants see that change as well. Additionally, the wave is tracked temporally, so that you can "replay" the conversation as it occured.

gibsonf1 17y ago
So what we are doing is using a Robot to transfer information between our webapp and Wave and inserting gadgets to give views back into our webapp, etc. Robots are a very powerful idea.
derefr 17y ago
What I've never understood is how this is any different from IRC with a bunch of handy bots (esp. a logging one) sitting in on the channel.
- Zaak 17y ago
  In Wave you can edit previous text.
  - derefr 17y ago
    You could do the same with the logging bot if it supported line-editing command messages, then just put a GUI on top that translated the visual-editing commands to line-editing semantics. I'm not saying any IRC server/network I've ever seen does this now, but it's not out of the plausibility range and far easier, I think, than pushing an entirely new protocol. But I digress: perhaps I should just set it up myself and see if it really can be done.
- misuba 17y ago
  A wave isn't a flow of synchronous text (or asynchronous posts, for that matter) - it's a standing unit of editable text + widgets + threaded comments. Sort of live-wiki-ish.

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Keyframe 17y ago

gmail meets twitter meets gtalk meets wiki meets pingback - with a twist that you can have web pages a client to wave so you can show there your feeds too and that typing can be seen real time on the other, recipient, side. Oh and add to that that there can be multiple participants. Participants can be robots too, and you can mash up all of that into multiuser game kind of experiences.

old-gregg 17y ago
... and it's gotta be about jobs creation too!