This document summarizes a seminar on Google Wave that discusses its features for real-time communication and collaboration. Google Wave combines aspects of email, instant messaging, web chat and social networking. It allows for live concurrent editing using operational transformation and extensions can be added to waves for additional functionality. The document provides examples of existing gadgets and robots used in Google Wave and discusses how businesses can use Google Wave for project management.

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Odisha Electronics Control Library
Seminar
On
Google Wave

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Content
What is Google Wave?
Google Wave features
Terms used in Google Wave
Google Wave Extensions
What’s in it for marketers?

3. What is Google Wave?
Online tool for real time communication and collaboration
Combines Aspects of
Email
Instant Messaging
Web Chat
Social Networking
Project Management
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4. Google Wave : Under the Hood
Written in Java using the OpenJDK
Each Wave is a hosted XML Document
Uses XMPP Protocol
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5. The Technology
“Operational Transformation”
Live Concurrent Editing
Client and Server in the same state
Live and Concurrent conversation, hence no waiting
A single server holds all your data
No worries over a client crash, can still fetch it

6. Wave Terminologies
Wave – a specific threaded conversation
Wavelet - subset of a larger conversation
Blip – a single individual message, smaller than a wavelet
Document – refers to content within a blip
Extension – mini application that works within a wave

7. Google Wave Features
 Real-time: character-by-character
 Embedability: Waves can be embedded on any blog or website
 Applications and Extensions: Anything from bots to complex real-time games
 Drag-and-drop file sharing: No attachments; just drag & drop
 Wiki functionality
 Playback: Playback any part of the wave to see what was said
 Open source: To foster innovation and adoption amongst developers

8. Google Wave Extensions
Gadgets
Gadgets are specific to individual waves, not users.
Unlike a Facebook gadget
Almost any iGoogle or OpenSocial gadget can run within
Google Wave
A Gadget built within Google Wave can take advantage of
live interaction with multiple users
Robots
Automated participant in a wave
Talk with users, interact with waves
Provide information from outside sources
Check content with in a wave
Wave Embeds
Place the conversed wave on to your website/Blog

9. Gadgets vs Robots
Robot Gadget
Runs on application servers (currently
AppEngine) and interacts with the wave
over a protocol.
Runs within the wave client itself.
Each robot may instantiate at most one
instance per wave. Remember that a robot
is like a participant on a wave, so each
participant/robot is a unique instance, but a
wave can have many participants/robots.
Each gadget may have multiple instances per
wave, one for each participant interacting with
the gadget.
Robots may modify a wave and perform the
same operations as a human participant.
Gadgets are not able to modify a wave, and have
limited visibility into the wave. A gadget is only
able to detect changes in the wave's participants.
Robots can modify a gadget.
Gadgets have no way to know that a robot exists,
and thus are not able to modify a robot.

10. Some Existing Gadgets & Robots
Some Gadgets
Yes/No/Maybe
Ribbit Web Conference
Maps (allows for
collaboration on a
Google Map)
Robots
 Debuggy (an in-wave debugger)
 Stocky (which pulls stock prices based on
stock quote mentions)
 Tweety (the Twave robot, which displays
tweets inside of a wave)
 Polly

11. IGoogle Gadgets Overview

12. Collaborative Workspaces

13. A Public Wave
Making a Wave Public
 Add public.a@gwave.com to your
wave
 Add relevant tags to the page to
make it searchable
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14. Multilingual Wave
Let the Wave speak
 Natural language: Autocorrect
your spelling & Auto-translate on-
the-fly
 Add aunt.rosie@appspot.com to
your wave
 As you type the tool will translate
your text to over 40 languages.
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15. Gadgets on the Go
Google Gadgets
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16. Google Wave for Business
BPM
Project Management

17. Gravity from SAP
 Gravity is a prototype developed by SAP research
 Leverages on Google Wave collaborative power for process modeling
 The final model can be imported into the SAP BPM for further
refinement and execution

18. Alignspace – Technology & Community
 Combines social networking tools with intuitive tools for process design and modeling
 Collaborate effectively to improve processes
 Create process models that can be exported and run within BPM engines

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About Regalix
 Forefront of Online Marketing, Research and Web 2.0 portals
 Multi-disciplinary Leadership Team
 Fortune 500 and Venture-Backed Customers (B2B and B2C)
 Global Operations: HQ in Silicon Valley, 4 Offices
 150+ Team, Built on 8+ years of research
 Recognition

20. Conclusion
 Google Wave is a new communication service
previewed today at Google I/O. "A wave is equal parts
conversation and document, where people can
communicateand work together with richly formatted
text, photos, videos, maps, and more."
 The service seems to combine Gmail and Google
Docs into an interesting free formworkspace that
could be used to write documents collaboratively,
planevents, play games or discuss a recent news

21. References
 www.google.com
 www.wikipedia.com
 www.oeclib.in

22. Thanks