First aves

This site is ded­i­cate to bring­ing you news and infor­ma­tion about the Wave tech­nol­ogy and the Google Wave client.

Joshua Nunn (@josh­nunn) is a tech at a large high school who likes to keep on top of new tech­nol­ogy as it emerges. He believes Google Wave is the only tech­nol­ogy advance­ment that has a real chance to sup­plant email as the dom­i­nant form of com­mu­ni­ca­tion on the web, and so is pretty excited to fol­low it as it grows.

Cathie Tra­nent (@Cathi­eTra­nent) would have loved to have been a geek (said with love and respect) except for her amaz­ingly short atten­tion spa… oh look at the pretty birdy!  She has offered her ser­vices to this blog as the ulti­mate “bloody end user” and will be pre­sent­ing her thoughts on Wave and what it has to offer the tech­no­log­i­cally chal­lenged as the adven­ture unfolds.

First Waves (@first­waves) will bring you the lat­est news and infor­ma­tion about Google Wave and the Wave Pro­to­col. We’ll share tips and tricks to make Wave work for you.

Ter­mi­nol­ogy

While brows­ing this site, you might be con­fused by our incon­sis­tent use of Wave, wave and Google Wave to refer to what seems like a mil­lion dif­fer­ent things within one sen­tence. Here is a sim­ple guide:

• Google Wave refers to the internet-based client made by Google — the inter­face you use to read and browse waves. Also known as Wave the Prod­uct.
• Wave refers to any imple­men­ta­tion of the Wave Pro­to­col. Cur­rently this is lim­ited to the Google Wave imple­men­ta­tion (see above) and a Python server called PyGoWave. Any soft­ware that can read and pub­lish waves is also a Wave Client as it accesses the Wave pro­to­cols. Wave can also refer to the Wave Plat­form — the API and hooks that let peo­ple cre­ate exten­sions to build extra func­tion­al­ity on Wave. As the exten­sions should work on other Wave servers, they get Cap­i­tal Letters.
• Finally, waves (lit­tle w) are the actual end prod­uct of the Waves listed above. They are the indi­vid­ual mes­sages you send to peo­ple using the clients and servers, and are roughly equiv­a­lent to emails. As in: “Hey, did you get my wave last night? I need those John­ston num­bers by midday.”