What is Google Wave?
Google Wave: An online communication and collaboration tool, forming “waves” of conversation or documents, bringing people into discussion to work together over the Internet.
Full details can be viewed on the Google Wave website but here is a summary to educate quick readers after having absorbed the information on the Google pages:
Communicate with:
- Text
- Photos
- Videos
- Maps
- More
Description of a Google Wave?
Conversations and documents shared online, which can be played back after rewinding. Transmissions are real time, so user interaction is broadcasted as it happens. This works with conversations along with extensions.
Google Wave on My Website
Waves can be embedded onto your website using Google wave APIs.
Google Wave API
Extensions to automate common tasks or embedding a Google Wave on your website can be done through the API.
More information about the Google API can be found on the official Google Wave website.
How does Google Wave work?
Users can create a wave and add people to it. People can then use text, gadgets and photos and reply to or edit your wave concurrently. The wave can also be played back to see how it evolved.
Google Wave’s Three Layers
Product
An HTML 5 application including a rich text editor and other functions like drag-and-drop from your desktop, E.g. for photos.
Platform
A set of APIs allowing developers to embed waves and other services. It also allows building your own extensions.
Protocol
A method of storing and sharing waves, concurrency control and ensuring interoperability across Google Wave services.
I can’t wait to get gnawing on this real-time online collaboration tool. Apparently they’re looking for developers now, and at the moment it’s on some kind of trial. Been waiting for an invite from Google for quite some time now, possibly they don’t like to choose rats as much since we’re not that influential.
Got an interest in Google Wave but have absolutely no idea where to get started? Read The Complete Guide to Google Wave at completewaveguide.com. Google Wave may not be available to everyone just yet, but there’s still a lot to learn about it and not that many places to do that learning. That’s where The Complete Guide to Google Wave steps in.