
In Post on 2010-03-05 by Joshua
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Name: Joshua Nunn
Site: http://www.joshnunn.com.au
About: 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.See Authors Posts (78) Tagged: addon, direction, email, new feature, official help
One of the problems with Google Wave for the non-geek crowd has been how you know you have a new wave?
For dedicated geeks, there are browser extensions, OS specific software, iPhone Push notifications, and more.
But most of these don’t figure in the non-geek arsenal for managing the wash of information from the internet. And for regular folk convincing them to use Wave without these sorts of notifications will be hard simply because they don’t want to bother checking for new waves as well as new emails.
Convincing them may have just gotten easier however with the release of integrated email notifications for your Wave inbox. In a post on the official Google Wave Blog, Ged Ellis explains how to turn on email notifications for new waves. Using the drop down list next to the inbox link (it’s hidden until you hover over it) you can choose an email address to have notifications sent to. The tool even picked my Google Apps email even though it’s not my official Wave address because I’ve set it as primary in my Google profile.

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In Post on 2010-03-02 by Joshua
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Name: Joshua Nunn
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About: 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.See Authors Posts (78) Tagged: bots, extensions, gadgets, official help
Recently, the Wave Team have made a big push to publicise more bots and extensions. In a post to the Google Wave Help forum, Kylie announced that some users might start seeing a new Extensions link in their navigation panel. Then enterprising Wavers noted that anyone could get access to this Extension information with a search for [group:google-wave-extension-gallery@googlegroups.com].
Now Google have made it easier than ever to submit an extension to the Wave Extension review team using a simple bot.
Create a new wave and add the Submitty bot (submitty-bot@appspot.com), and Submitty will create a submission form for you to fill out. At the bottom are a couple of checkboxes. If you check either of these boxes, you’ll be prompted to fill in more information about your bot and/or gadget. Finally, you add the Extension Review Group (google-wave-extensions-review@googlegroups.com) to your wave to submit your extension.
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In Post on 2010-01-31 by Joshua
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Name: Joshua Nunn
Site: http://www.joshnunn.com.au
About: 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.See Authors Posts (78) Tagged: blogging, client, embed, future, interface, opensource, use case
Want to share a public wave with someone who hasn’t jumped on the Wave bandwagon? Need to publish a Wave in a way that keeps it safe from editors and wanna-be trolls? How ’bout this Wave Reader that takes a wave and displays it as a web page without the reader needing an account.
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In Post on 2010-01-23 by Joshua
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Name: Joshua Nunn
Site: http://www.joshnunn.com.au
About: 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.See Authors Posts (78) Tagged: editing, interface, new feature, official help
In the first major update to the Google Wave client in what feels like ages, the Wave team have implemented two new features that will make a big difference in managing your waves. The first fixes one of the most shocking things about the first release: that anyone you invited could come along and edit any part of your wave. Of course the point of Wave is collaboration, but sometimes it was conceivable that you might not like anyone to be able to hack away at a wave, particularly once a wave was made public. Many good useful waves were effectively destroyed by granting the public editing rights.

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In Post on 2009-12-06 by Elle
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Name: Elle Ray
Site: http://taciturnly.com
About: I'm a marketing student in my last year, a worker, and a geek. I love to see how businesses can utilise the Internet, to either market themselves and share information, or to communicate within their organisation and further their business practices.See Authors Posts (1) Tagged: chat, direction, use case

While attempting to complete my first group assignment as an external student at University, I realised how much harder it was than while I was an internal student. If you’re an internal student you see each other at least once a week, making it hard to ignore the fact you have an upcoming assignment. Also you actually get to meet and talk with people and elect to be in their group (if the group selection process is left to the students). Being external, I had to post a random post on the discussion board and hope I was choosing the right people. And then hope they didn’t ignore my emails or wait a month or so to reply.
Google Wave would have been one of the best tools for this group assignment. Email meant a group of four people were all individually emailing each other and also at times emailing all four of the group. I ended up with snapshots of what was happening, who was having what role, and what the plan was. With Google Wave, all the communication would have been in one Wave, or even multiple, but it would have been available for the group to read and to add and edit. The plan of the assignment, of who was writing what, and how we were writing it could have been kept at the top of the wave, and edited as needed. The parts assigned to individuals could have been put in the wave and the group could know exactly where the assignment was up to, and edit other’s parts as we went.
The two main features of Google Wave which would have positive affects on a university group assignment, would have been the real time editing and the ability to highlight. Real time made it more like conversation, without having to wait for emails to be sent, or having to work out who could possible meet in the City to catch up. Highlighting would allow those edits to be prominent or for individuals to reinforce any point they needed to make.

In Post on 2009-11-15 by Cathie
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Name: Cathie Tranent
Site: http://cathiet.blogspot.com/
About: 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 techalogically challenged as the adventure unfolds.See Authors Posts (2) Tagged: api, fun, gadgets, wave
Now I’m rather pleased that I can get myself around Wave, post links to my photos and generally do all the good stuff.
There are however, people of my acquaintance who are a lot more technologically ‘ept’ (it should be a word, you know — the opposite of inept) and have started mucking about under the bonnet of Wave.
One of these is Dave, and the other day he introduced me to a little gadget he calls 5×5. The object of the game is to totally fill the grid with black squares. Clicking on a square results in that square (and those around it as seen in the initial pattern below) toggling its colour. There is a solution in 14 moves.

DaveP’s 5×5
I’ll hand over to Dave to explain what it is, how it came about, and how it works.
5×5 is a puzzle I first saw as a DOS PC thing back in the late 1980s. I wrote my own version of it back then (just for fun) and, ever since, it’s sort of been my “try a new environment” project. I’ve written versions for DOS, Windows, OS/2, the old Palm Pilot and even for GNU emacs.
Some time back I quickly wrote a HTML/Javascript version so, given that that’s pretty much all a Wave gadget is, I reworked it as a gadget. The main difference with this version is that it’s coded with the state of the game held in the Wave. This means that a) you can always come back to it and it’ll be how you left it and b) everyone who is part of the Wave can see what’s happening and can also make moves.
All you have to do is use the “add a gadget” toolbar button (the one that looks like a green jigsaw) and just input this URL in the dialog that you get: http://serenity.davep.org/5x5/5x5.xml
Hmm — the fun stuff begins!
Oh, and PS … I couldn’t do the puzzle (/grin) not even using Wave’s fabulous “playback” feature!

In Post on 2009-11-15 by Joshua
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Name: Joshua Nunn
Site: http://www.joshnunn.com.au
About: 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.See Authors Posts (78) Tagged: invites
I just nominated someone for a Wave account and they received it within thirty minutes. That and the number of invites I last received (30) lead me to think that Wave accounts are no longer the hard-to-get commodity they once were.
Oh well, no more $100 invites on eBay.

In Post on 2009-11-10 by Joshua
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Name: Joshua Nunn
Site: http://www.joshnunn.com.au
About: 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.See Authors Posts (78) Tagged: first look, fun, tip, use case
By now if you’ve been using Wave long enough you should know that a search for [with:public] gets you a big long fast updating list of all the Waves that people have shared with the world. If you’ve been reading the Complete Guide to Google Wave you might know to narrow down the search with tags and terms too.
But were you aware that Local Waves have popped up everywhere as well, and you can find users near you just by plugging your city/suburb into the search (with the public wave search) eg. [with:public city name]. If you can’t immediately find a Wave for your location, you can start one! Just create a crafty title, and make the Wave public. Encourage people who join to mark themselves on a map, and shout out their Twitter/social details for people to connect elsewhere.
Have a tonne of fun, and stay safe!

In Post on 2009-10-27 by Joshua
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Name: Joshua Nunn
Site: http://www.joshnunn.com.au
About: 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.See Authors Posts (78) Tagged: email, extensions, future, money, preview, roadmap, store
The Next Web attended the Google Wave GTUG (Google Technology User Group) meetup in London where Lars Rasmussen and Stephanie Hannon (the two responsible for Google Wave) gave a presentation on some upcoming Google Wave APIs. James Glick from The Next Web has included a dot-point summary of the most important parts, a few of which I have included below. Read his article for even more juicy inside information.
To cut a potentially exhausting blog post short, a summary of snippets from their presentation include:
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Extension gallery to be fully up and running in months with a wider collection and sharing functionality.
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An extension store is planned where developers would be able to display and charge for apps.
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[… snipped …]
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Google Wave will be able to be deployed within networks and intranets for organisations and companies to use internally.
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Although it has been requested by a substantial amount of preview users, there are no plans to intergrate Gmail or any mail with Google Wave. The APIs though, will provide developers with the ability to do it in the future…
Read the article at The Next Web for more
The rest of the items on Glick’s list show Wave team is obviously committed to improving the experience for everyone. The four items I’ve included above highlight for me the potential for Wave to grow beyond the bounds of what Google can achieve and put it firmly in the hands of developers who can make it a thriving, useful tool. If Wave can ever dethrone email as the default form of communication, it will be because of these for things: The ability for developers to extend it and make money from it, for businesses to deploy their own secure versions, and for Wave to send and receive email. Although it looks like the Google team don’t have plans to bake email support in, I am confident it will not be long before such an extension is built and available.