Google “WAVE”. Say Hello & Start Collaborating.
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Ok – this was announced back in May, and I took a quick look at the demo back then, but I just revisited the demo and was inspired to write a little story.
The CLOUD
The air was still. Silent.
All but the constant drum of “MS..MS..MS..”
Beyond the horizon, however, a small CLOUD appears.
An APParition
Thin and solitary.
A lonesome spirit in the BIG BLUE.
Suddenly, the winds of change blow gently across my keyboard.
A tingle travels down my spine, disrupting my MEMORY.
Where was I? Time warps.
Something stirs in the air.
An approaching CLOUD
Massive and thunderous in APPearance.
In the streets, DRIVERS stop and stare.
Others gather from near and far, sensing something wonderful in the air.
A gentle rain begins to fall.
The HARD WARE and tear of our grounded existence begins to wash away.
We feel lighter, untethered, carefree, ethereal.
The rain falls harder but the CLOUD defies Mother nature’S laws.
It grows in size. APPearing to become more substantial.
We connect with it somehow – this strange CLOUD gathering substance and sustenance from those it has FREEd from their earth-bound tethers.
We have been changed.
Our CONNECTions to each other have grown stronger.
I pause to take a breath of fresh air and look around me to see a better world.
And so I WAVE goodbye to all those with whom I am now CONNECTed. And they WAVE back.
Wave is Google’s new collaborative, universal messaging platform. It is an open source system allowing developers to build collaborative ‘WAVE” communication objects. So, that means you can connect with communication and collaboration systems like email systems, VoIP, IM, photo-sharing, use WAVE as a platform for building blogging sites, discussion groups, build wiki-like sites, and use WAVEs to collaboratively edit documents. It includes a set of extension APIs allowing you to build games collaboratively inside ‘a wave’ , connect with Twitter, Facebook, etc. It’s about integration into workflows and appears to that ‘ubiquitous‘ collaboration platform talked about often. The list goes on, but it’s beauty lies in the ability of each of these apps to interact cross-platform seamlessly. And, it’s all done in the browser. It’s quite remarkable.
wave.google.com (sign-up to become one of the first 100,000 to beta test it)
code.google.com/apis/wave – API documentation
www.waveprotocol.org – whitepapers and protocol
Check out the demo..
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