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Open Source, compliant Google Wave Server

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Re: Open Source, compliant Google Wave Server

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It is basically a combination of real-time instant messaging (where each letter typed can be seen as it is typed), email, and collaborative document editing all in one. You can have as many people typing and editing at the same time as you want - which can be very entertaining actually among curious hackers goofing off. The key though is that each conversation is contained in a single object, the wave, and you can ad…

What I've never understood is how this is any different from IRC with a bunch of handy bots (esp. a logging one) sitting in on the channel.

In Wave you can edit previous text.

Re: Open Source, compliant Google Wave Server

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post #45
post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I've never understood is how this is any different from IRC with a bunch of handy bots (esp. a logging one) sitting in on the channel.

In Wave you can edit previous text.

You could do the same with the logging bot if it supported line-editing command messages, then just put a GUI on top that translated the visual-editing commands to line-editing semantics. I'm not saying any IRC server/network I've ever seen does this now, but it's not out of the plausibility range and far easier, I think, than pushing an entirely new protocol. But I digress: perhaps I should just set it up myself and see if it really can be done.

Re: Open Source, compliant Google Wave Server

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post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is basically a combination of real-time instant messaging (where each letter typed can be seen as it is typed), email, and collaborative document editing all in one. You can have as many people typing and editing at the same time as you want - which can be very entertaining actually among curious hackers goofing off. The key though is that each conversation is contained in a single object, the wave, and you can ad…

What I've never understood is how this is any different from IRC with a bunch of handy bots (esp. a logging one) sitting in on the channel.

A wave isn't a flow of synchronous text (or asynchronous posts, for that matter) - it's a standing unit of editable text + widgets + threaded comments. Sort of live-wiki-ish.
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