Google Wave

Anita Barabe

Google Wave

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Communication and Collaboration Tool

- Instant messaging

- Wiki

- Social networks

- Groups

- Media sharing

- Blogs

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Email and Wave Comparison

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Wave Interface

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Some Waves Capabilities

• Real time

• Playback

• Natural language tools

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Some more waves capabilities

• Embeddable

• File sharing

• Both communication & collaboration tool

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Anatomy of a Wave

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Google Wave API

• Allows developers to enhance Google Wave using:

- Extensions (gadgets and robots)

- Embedding (include a wave into a website)

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Extensions: Gadgets

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Gadget Architecture

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Gadget APIs

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Robot Architecture

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Extensions: Robots

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Example of Robots

• Bloggy:

Publishes waves to a blog

• Tweety:

Syncs between waves and Tweeter

• Polly:

Demostrates forms within a wave

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Wave Robot API

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Gadgets & Robots: Differences

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• Robots: automated participant

• Gadget: wave element

• Robot: interacts and modifies the wave

• Gadget: interact with the user, modifies only its own state

Embedding

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Embedding

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Embedding

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Google Wave Federation Protocol

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