Google Wave

The easiest way to ask questions or offer feedback or updates to this book is in Google Wave itself.

Software developers have been using file versioning tools like the one built into Google Wave for decades now.

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Google recently announced that they have ceased development of Google Wave, one of the more ambitious and confusing collaboration platforms.

Right now the best place to browse for gadgets is at the Google Wave Samples Gallery.

Therefore, the idea of moving your messages to Google Wave might feel like you're giving the search giant a monopoly on your communication.

However, Google Wave's Firefly references are an in-joke. Wave will be best known for its attempt to upgrade email.

Google Wave treats an email conversation with multiple recipients and senders as a document with multiple editors and writers.

Google just announced that it will open up Google Wave to a large number of Google Apps users this fall.

There are two ways to contribute to this book: in Google Wave, or directly on this wiki.

"The goal of Google Wave is to collaborate INSIDE email rather than using email to ARRANGE to collaborate. "

But its previous efforts ended in failure, with both Google Wave and Google Buzz proving unpopular with users.

Some groups tried Google Wave, but the learning curve sometimes interfered with progress.

Google Wave, a wildly complex email, messaging and collaboration tool, was taken up by few.

CLARIFICATION: Capital 'W' Wave refers to the whole product, Google Wave.

They've learned from previous mistakes in Google Buzz and Google Wave where they dug a grave for those products by overhyping them.

Google Wave uses this callback function to display any changes in the state object.

Google Wave will be enormously useful to reporters collaborating on stories.

When you start a wave in Google Wave, you can add human and non-human participants to the discussion.

Since Google Wave's launch, we've seen a slew of real-time, short-form collaboration tools.

To create a public Wave, simply head over to Google Wave and start a new Wave.

While some early reviews panned it as buggy and slow, today's version of Google Wave is very stable and fast.

Another way to get your data out of Google Wave is to directly copy it and paste it into another application.

When you enter that URL and click Add, Google Wave processes the gadget you've built.

Google has not said when the Google Wave app store will go live.

Last month we wrote a short post about using Google Wave for live blogging.

Embeded Wave: An embeded wave is a way to take a Google Wave and the conversation within it and place it on your website.

You now know how to create a gadget that actually uses the Google Wave state object.

Google Wave, for example, is a new communication platform where text, photos and other information can be exchanged in real time.

As we've noted several times, Google Wave is a service that is fairly hard to explain.

Chapter 1 is a broad overview of what Google Wave is and what it's useful for.

Google Wave can also be considered a platform with a rich set of open APIs that allow developers to embed waves in other web services

Using Google Wave, all the participants in a conversation have the ability to:

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