In Link on 2009-12-09 by JoshuacloseAuthor: JoshuaName: 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: new feature, official help, preview
Google has just unveiled their plans for group waves. The Google Wave Blog outlines the steps to set up a Google Group (yes, you have to use another tool) then add the group as a contact in Google Wave.
The service does not yet allow you to add users by their googlewave.com account (gmail.com only), and the permissions can only be handled through the Google Groups interface. It also seems that to avoid spam (being able to send messages to an everyone in a public group at once) users must pro-actively seek out the group wave and follow it to move it to their inbox [currently waiting for confirmation of this].
Like any Wave feature, this is still being developed and its behaviour could change over time. The Wave team have said they will continue to enhance the groups feature to make groups easier to navigate.
In Post on 2009-10-27 by JoshuacloseAuthor: JoshuaName: 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:
Extension gallery to be fully up and running in months with a wider collection and sharing functionality.
An extension store is planned where developers would be able to display and charge for apps.
[… snipped …]
Google Wave will be able to be deployed within networks and intranets for organisations and companies to use internally.
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…
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.
In Link on 2009-10-20 by JoshuacloseAuthor: JoshuaName: 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, guide, preview
Don’t get what all the fuss is about Wave? Don’t have the time to watch the original hour-twenty demonstration? Lifehacker has chopped the presentation up into bite-size chunks to highlight the parts they think are most important.
Google Wave was recently announced at the Google I/O developer conference. This is an amazing video and well worth the hour and twenty it will take you to watch it. If you’d like to know what the future of web communication might look like, you can get a head start right here.
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