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Google Wave joined Google Apps
May 25, 2010 | Author: Adam Levine
Pretty silently (not like when beta testing was started) the revolutionary service Google Wave has been opened to a public and added to the business suite of Google Apps. Interest towards Google Wave has been reducing since the release of this service (about a year ago). The primary reason for this is its complexity compared to the direct competitor - E-mail. Besides Google Wave appeared to be buggy during testing and scared even geeks. However, now Lars Rasmussen, the Wave project manager, argues that Google Wave is ready for high load and performs fast enough. In addition, developers have simplified adding comments and search for new changes in wave. They also have corrected the lack of integration with email - you can now set the email-notifications about changes in waves (although you can't add comments in the opposite direction - from the email).
In order to satisfy enterprise users Google Wave improved the access control system. In particular, it added the opportunity to invite users only for viewing wave. This is especially valuable for creating public waves, which can now be inserted into your site. In addition, it added the opportunity to restore deleted content in the PlayBack tool (formerly invited wave participants could delete something permanently).
Being not only a collaboration tool, but also a platform, Google Wave gradually accumulates extensions (robots and gadgets). Gadgets - are applications that you can insert into waves and robots - are wave participants, which automate various operations. In March the Extension Gallery appeared in the left menu. But we can not say that there already a lot of extensions. The most interesting so far - are Unaware (project management), Video Chat Experience (video chat) and Ribbit Conference Gadget (conferencing).
For developers the advanced API was introduced. It allows to develop robots that can create new waves and update them using data from external sources. In addition, soon the new API will allow to create own lightweight Google Wave clients, which will "communicate" with the service through the wave federation protocol. This protocol is already supported by Novell Pulse, SAP SteamWork and Salesforce.
In order to satisfy enterprise users Google Wave improved the access control system. In particular, it added the opportunity to invite users only for viewing wave. This is especially valuable for creating public waves, which can now be inserted into your site. In addition, it added the opportunity to restore deleted content in the PlayBack tool (formerly invited wave participants could delete something permanently).
Being not only a collaboration tool, but also a platform, Google Wave gradually accumulates extensions (robots and gadgets). Gadgets - are applications that you can insert into waves and robots - are wave participants, which automate various operations. In March the Extension Gallery appeared in the left menu. But we can not say that there already a lot of extensions. The most interesting so far - are Unaware (project management), Video Chat Experience (video chat) and Ribbit Conference Gadget (conferencing).
For developers the advanced API was introduced. It allows to develop robots that can create new waves and update them using data from external sources. In addition, soon the new API will allow to create own lightweight Google Wave clients, which will "communicate" with the service through the wave federation protocol. This protocol is already supported by Novell Pulse, SAP SteamWork and Salesforce.
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