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Re: Open Source, compliant Google Wave Server

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I've never seen a good summary of Google Wave. Anyone hear a good one?

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.

Re: Open Source, compliant Google Wave Server

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://pygowave.p2k-network.org/waves/ryfHdRJuEA/ ? I really don't know how to export waves. I added jochen to the wave.

"Sorry, you do not have permission to view this Wave. You must be added by the people who participate in this Wave." My username is jochen

It seems like this implementation requires a second communication channel in order to invite new users. That's interesting - and not too different from traditional IM.

Maybe this time next decade we'll still have email accounts, but they'll contain nothing but invitations to next-gen communication media? Oh, and spam.

Re: Open Source, compliant Google Wave Server

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post #12

I've never seen a good summary of Google Wave. Anyone hear a good one?

gmail meets twitter meets gtalk meets wiki meets pingback - with a twist that you can have web pages a client to wave so you can show there your feeds too and that typing can be seen real time on the other, recipient, side. Oh and add to that that there can be multiple participants. Participants can be robots too, and you can mash up all of that into multiuser game kind of experiences.

... and it's gotta be about jobs creation too!

Re: Open Source, compliant Google Wave Server

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Whenever I try to add a gadget from the 'All gadgets' link, using the xml url, I get the same error:

-------------- IntegrityError at /gadgets/mine/

(1062, "Duplicate entry 'Wave name' for key 'title'") --------------

Re: Open Source, compliant Google Wave Server

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Sorry, you do not have permission to view this Wave. You must be added by the people who participate in this Wave." My username is jochen

It seems like this implementation requires a second communication channel in order to invite new users. That's interesting - and not too different from traditional IM. Maybe this time next decade we'll still have email accounts, but they'll contain nothing but invitations to next-gen communication media? Oh, and spam.

Sometimes these are almost impossible to tell apart.

/me waits for the first "Is your board long enough for her wave?" message to hit his inbox.

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