Blip - Google Wave Blip. Google Wave was an innovative new platform that Google introduced at their I/O developer conference in 2009 It got a standing ovation from the attendees. The service was killed just over a year later in August of 2010. Although Google had hoped to revolutionize email and group collaboration with the tool, most users didn't know what they should do with it and seldom did more than simply register an account.
It didn't help that Google introduced the tool with a brand new vocabulary, such as "blips" and "wavelets. " It also required users to register a new email-like address "your-user-name@googlewave.com" instead of using existing Gmail accounts, and it reproduced a lot of the types of tools that existed elsewhere. Rather than continue development on Google Wave, Google decided to use portions in existing tools and leave other portions available for possible development by the open source community. Google Wave: 5 Ways It Could Change the Web. Google Wave arrives on September 30th. On that day, Google will start sending out 100,000 invites to non-developers to its much-anticipated real-time communication platform. It's not even released and it's generating more hype than almost any other web product in recent memory.
The reason stems from its game-changing features and their potential applications on business, education, customer service, email, social networking, and more. So with Wave on the way, we wanted to explore some of the potential of Google's upcoming product. We have a few of our own ideas and included some from Google Wave developers, but more than anything, we want your ideas, so be sure to leave your great Google Wave invention in the comments! Who knows, maybe we'll feature them in the future! 1. This idea's actually been in my head before, but it's articulated with some depth by Andrew Camel in the Google Wave API Google Group: Real-time threads?
2. 3. Can't you see it? 4. Real-time customer support? 5. Embeddable Waves: The Google Wave WordPress Plugin. One of the more intriguing aspects of Google Wave – the much anticipated communication and collaboration platform that debuts later this month – is the fact that Waves can be embedded anywhere on the Web. Waves, in case you’re not familiar, are essentially individual threaded conversations that take place within Google Wave. So, when we’re talking about an embeddable Wave, it means a conversation that can be placed on other websites, with the same functionality as it would have within Wave itself.
Since some developers already have access to Google Wave, we’re now able to show you what this functionality looks like – and how you may be seeing it in the future – via a WordPress plugin that has already been built for easily embedding Waves in blog posts. Embeddable Waves You’ll only be able to see the embed in action if you have a dev account for Wave, so here’s a screenshot of what the end result looks like, via a post on Mastering Wave: Google Wave WordPress Plugin Google Wave Resources. Google Wave: A Complete Guide. Last updated: January 29th, 2010 Today has been dominated by news and excitement surrounding Google Wave, Google's new real-time communication platform that will launch to the public on September 30th.
In fact, there's been so much buzz that you might just not have enough time to read the thousands of articles being released on Google's biggest product launch in recent memory. To make sense of it all, we have compiled key information, definitions, and links related to the launch of Google Wave.
This in-depth guide provides an overview of Google Wave, discusses the terminology associated with it, details information on Google Wave applications, (i.e. the Twitter Wave app Twave), and goes over ways to keep yourself informed. We know you're excited about Google Wave, so here's what we think you should know: What is Google Wave? Google Wave has a lot of innovative features, but here are just a few: Google Wave was the brainchild of a team based out of Sydney, Australia.
Terminology Wave Gadgets. Look out Outlook, Google's Wave is coming to swamp you - web - Technology. Google Wave's Best Use Cases - Wave - Lifehacker. @arekkusu82: Realistically, Wave is just a new implementation of an old idea. You can acheive much the same thing with SharePoint Discussion boards, or Microsoft Groove (which was developed by a different company before being gobbled up my Microsoft), or ShareFlow by zenbe.
Wave is extensible, but so is SharePoint. Sure, the real time translation is pretty sweet, but all the "oooh, shiny" stuff in Wave are just features. The idea behind wave isn't anything groundbreaking...people just think it is because it's a Google project (Oooh! Google's doing something new!). They seem to benefit from the same Reality Distortion Field that Apple does. @arekkusu82: Given that Wave protocol is an open standard, not long. @Bill Clark: Yeah, it first looked to me like a fancy IRC client. But that doesn't stop me from wanting to try it. The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave. Web Site for Telling Stories with Photos from Flickr. How does Google work? Infographic.
How-google-works.jpg (JPEG Image, 1195x2074 pixels) - Scaled (55%) Connecting Google Apps Education Edition with Blackboard. Technology has the potential to transform the educational experience and to connect students, instructors, and researchers in new ways. We think it's critical for schools and institutions to expose learners to these tools and practices to impart information literacy skills required to succeed in their careers – as students and beyond. Sharing a strong belief in the power and possibility of open platforms, Google and Blackboard have recently teamed up to combine our platforms, and we wanted to share a few powerful examples of these integrations with you here.
Enhancing collaboration in the classroom. Earlier this summer, Northwestern University took the lead on developing a way to facilitate classroom activities by letting instructors embed Google documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and calendars into Blackboard course sites. Now, more than ten different institutions, Google, and Blackboard meet on bi-weekly calls to regularly discuss the future of the Bboogle project. Google Wave – first Meh, then Wow! | Librarians Matter. Google Wave vs Twitter at conferences | FreshNetworks Blog. Image courtesy of Shutterstock Twitter has quickly become the must-have channel for conference back-chat. Reading what other people tweet during a speech provides an extra dimension as you get a sense of what the audience is thinking.
And just like passing notes in class, it’s also a lot more fun than simply sitting and listening. (and empowering – remember that Facebook interview from SXSW’08?) Twitter is also a great way to attend a conference without actually being there – just follow a conference hashtag (e.g. But watch out Twitter. At the recent Ecomm conference delegates were provided with Google Wave accounts. Here’s what happened: an audience member would create a Google Wave and others in the audience would edit the wave during the presentation. 1. 2. 3.
For this conference the organisers created a Wave directory so that you could find what was said in each presentation. It’s worth pointing out that Twitter is still an early-adopter phenomenon, and Google Wave even more so. Google Wave for Educators. Six Ways that Google Wave is Going to Change Your Business, Career and Life. Learning Waves from Google. Waves A ‘wave’ is a group conversation with lots of added functionality. There’s work waves, product waves, party waves – waves allow you to do whatever with whoever, whenever. It works, in pretty much real time, because it’s all in the cloud. You can also have ‘Learning Waves’. Waves are hosted conversations combine email, messenger and social networking and media sharing – faster, more like real F2F group conversation with playback, drag and drop from desktop to browser. It pulls in mobile, blogs, Twitter, aggregates conversations, allows group editing, docs can include wave conversations (hide & show), spellchecks as you type, creates links a you type, polls, supports multilingual and has real time translation in 40 languages.
So that’s it, an open source, browser-based, personal communication and collaboration tool – Google Wave. Learning Waves So what’s the impact on e-learning? First, the creation of e-learning content should be quicker and cheaper. Google Wave Use Cases: Education. Google Wave is a much hyped new Internet-based communications and collaboration platform. It was announced at the end of May, released as a 'Preview' product shortly after and 100,000 more invites were made available at the end of September. Early users reported mixed feelings.
But one month after Google Wave was opened to tens of thousands of people, how are people using it now? What use cases are being discovered? Let's start with the education sector. We'll explore other use cases in upcoming posts. What is Google Wave Again? A quick reminder of what Google Wave is. In a recent CNN profile, Wave creators Lars and Jens Rasmussen described it as making email "collaborative and instant. " Wave in Class After searching some public 'waves,' we came across an educational wave. The wave was started to explore concepts like "Collaborative Note Taking" and "Wave as a Debate Host. " This particular wave was framed at the start as being "a set of collaborative documents, supported by a chat. " 7 things you should know about Google wave. Google Wave: how to add a bot. Google Wave and teaching. The announcement of Google’s new Wave technology seems to be causing equal parts excitement and bafflement.
For education, it’s worth getting through the bafflement, because the potential is quite exciting. What is Google Wave? There’s many aspects, and the combination of features is rather innovative, so a degree of blind-people-describing-an-elephant will probably persist. For me, though, Google Wave exists on two levels: one is as a particular social networking tool, not unlike facebook, twitter etc. As a social networking tool, Wave’s brain, erm, ‘wave’ is that it focusses on the conversation as the most important organising principle. As a new technology, then, Google Wave turns every conversation (or ‘wave’ in Google speak) into a live object on the internet, that you can invite people and other machine services (‘robots’) to. The fact that waves are live objects on the internet points to the potential depth of the new technology. Why does Wave matter for teaching and learning? Wave API Overview - Google Wave API - Google Code.
Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web. Yesterday, during the Google I/O keynote, Google’s VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, laid out a grand vision for the direction Google sees the web heading towards with the move to the HTML 5 standard. While we’re not there yet, all the major browser players besides Microsoft are aligned and ready for the next phase, which will include such things as the ability to run 3D games and movies in the browser without additional plug-ins. But Google wants to take it one step further with a brand new method of communication for this new era. It’s called Google Wave.
Everyone uses email and instant messaging on the web now, but imagine if you could tie those two forms of communication together and add a load of functionality on top of it. At its most fundamental form, that’s essentially what Wave is. Having seen a lengthy demonstration, as ridiculous as it may sound, I have to agree. Features Maybe you want to add another friend to the wave. And from here we go much deeper. A New Web. What’s Next for Google Wave - Digits. What Intrigues Me About Google Wave. Now that I’ve had a little while to think about it, I’m ready to distill my initial enthusiastic reaction to Google Wave down to a manageably short (and hopefully non-fanboi) post. Let me say at the outset that I have no idea whether Wave will succeed. I am convinced, however, that something like Wave will succeed, in part because much about it is not new. My initial thought was was, “Hey, somebody finally got Apple’s OpenDoc to work.” Scott Wilson twittered that Google had reinvented ActiveX.
In some ways, Wave is, like many great inventions, an old idea with some new twists. This is not to minimize the value of those twists. To the contrary, they are astonishing. At any rate, there are a number of elements to Wave that are particularly attractive and likely to change practice in the field of e-learning: A/Synchronousness Wave completely demolishes the line between synchronous and asynchronous communication.
There are good reasons for this. Open Permissions Playback Fluid Grouping. Does Google Wave Mean the End of the LMS? I suppose it was inevitable. At a time when even The Chronicle is asking whether Blackboard can be replaced by WordPress, a slick demo of a super-cool product like Wave was bound to trigger breathless speculation about the demise of the LMS. Equally predictably, the most enthusiastic predictions that the LMS will be replaced are being made by people who have already replaced their LMS. It is not terribly shocking to read Jim Groom predicting that this time the LMS is REALLY doomed!!!!
(I mean that to be taken affectionately.) If you are comfortable teaching a class using WordPress or PBWiki or [insert hip and free Web 2.0 technology du jour], then there is a good chance that you will be comfortable teaching a class with Wave. Me, I’m a live-and-let-live kind of guy. So the question I’m interested in is more nuanced than the one of whether the LMS is “dead.” To begin with, I think it’s worth taking a moment to consider what we mean when we refer to Google Wave. Google+ Comments. Still Some Ripples in Google Wave Beta | CloudAve. By Mark Fidelman on September 13, 2009 As part of a MeetUp this week, Gina Trapani founder of LifeHacker gave us an update on the status of Google Wave.
Since another 100,000 people are to be given access to the Beta in a few weeks I was extremely interested in the update. Here’s my take: Despite Google’s recent announcement on Wave, I do not believe Wave is ready for it’s 100,000 customer preview on September 30. Wave appeared buggy and froze many times during the demo. Overall, Google Wave is above and beyond email in usefulness and features. CIO Summary: Wave isn’t ready for the Enterprise and it doesn’t appear fit for distribution on September 30. Marissa Mayer on the future of Google. Pretty much every product that Google works on has to go through gatekeeper Marissa Mayer, who decides whether it's ready to be released or needs more work. She even approves every single Google Doodle that adorns the search giant's homepages around the world.
From being hired as the first female engineer nine and a half years ago to becoming one of the key decision makers at Google, she's come a long way. "We were very small, just 20 people," Mayer, now Google's vice president of search products and user experience, recalls. "There was a tremendous amount of energy, scruffy entrepreneurialism and a sense of hope. We really felt we were working on something that might change the world. Mayer simply didn't anticipate that Google, which had just signed a deal to become Netscape's default search engine when she started, would turn into the biggest internet company in the world. Chance, it seems, is something Mayer doesn't rate that highly. The future of search. Google helps the web to go social. Google's Virtual World. Google Launches Gears Open Source Project to Bring Offline Capabilities to Web Applications. Trends.