Google Wave is already 'rocking' the tech world. Some people love it, some hate it, while some just don't understand it, but no one can ignore it. It is an innovative, and possibly a game-changing product. Admittedly it is not a polished product yet because it is still in 'Alpha' stage. Google decided to release their product early on to users and developers to gather their feedback, and discover new use-cases for Wave by letting developers create extensions and robots using the Wave API.
I have used Wave on several occassions, and found it very useful when I am having a technical conversation with my colleagues, or taking notes on a public Wave at a conference which is co-edited in real-time by other attendees.
On 26th October, 2009 London-GTUG was excited to organize a Google Wave API talk by Lars Rasmussen and Stephanie Hannon. The event received an overwhelming response. Over 350 people registered for the event, and around 200 people attended the event. The event was held at a swanky conference room in Park Plaza near Riverbank London.
Lars and Stephanie talked about the Wave API, what you can and can't do with it. They also briefly talked about the future development plans for Wave.
Some of the highlights were:
1. Users will have more control over their 'waves', they will be able to organize, prioritize their waves etc. They will also be able to merge their waves eventually.
2. An extensions gallery is in the works, and will be published in the coming months. At the moment your apps will run only on the app engine
3. More of the Wave code base will be open-sourced
4. Extensions and Robots API will continue to improve and change
5. No plans to merge Gmail with the Wave in the near future.
6. Businesses will be able to manage, secure, syndicate their own Wave servers using the Wave Federated protocol
After the talk some of us went to the pub next door for further discussions, and netwoking. If you are interested in Wave APIs, join the Google group for latest dev updates and news. I'd like to thank Google for sponsoring and co-organizing this event.Also, Please subscribe to London GTUG google group to hear about future GTUG events.
-Anup
