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November 4, 2009

OK, So That Didn't Work

OK, so the posterous API didn't handle the images or any of the gadgets I added. If you're interested, this is what they WOULD Have looked like!

Google Wave in progress

Some gadgets

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November 4, 2009

Google Wave: A Quick Glimpse

Google Wave: A Quick Glimpse ((tags: Google, Wave))

Images Failed To Upload

I finally got a Google Wave preview invitation at the start of the month and I've been playing around with it for a couple of days now.


As you can see from the screen-grab above, I'm posting this via the posterous robot which takes the content of the Wave, processes it, and displays the content as a blog post.

Caution: when posting via the posterous robot, don't leave the Wave otherwise it will autopost whether you're finished or not!

Robots are one of a number of features added to Wave in an attempt to make it more than just a messaging tool. All take the content of the wave and process in different ways. The Tweety robot allows for posting to twitter and the twitusername takes content starting with @ and converts it to a twitter link.

For example, my twitter username is @i_are_scientist

As Wave is still in preview there are only a few of these available but I can imagine a time when repetitive tasks are completed by simply adding a robot as a Wave participant.

You can add other features as gadgets, such as, a google map or a poll.

Edit: The posterous API couldn't handle the gadgets.

All of which are editable/interactable (?) by anyone included in the Wave. Unfortunately, that's where I'm stuck; I have no friends on Wave which means that this preview is essentially limited to talking to myself or robots.

Unsettling in both cases!

I do imagine a time when Wave will become another social tool possibly replacing or merging with current e-mail technology, simply because it offers ways to interact other than simply replying.

via google-wave-robot

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November 1, 2009

A Google Wave Posterous Test


This is a test post using google wave and the posterous robot.

More information on using wave for posterous can be found here

via google-wave-robot

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July 22, 2009

Google Wave to open September 30 - Telegraph
via telegraph.co.uk

So the announcement has been made - Google Wave will be open for business from the end of September, or rather, it'll be available to 100,000 (I'm assuming, select) users, with the rest of us getting our hands on it a month or so later. But what does this really mean? Having seen the original announcement earlier this year, I've been really excited by the possibilities Wave will bring. It could easily spark the end of e-mail as we know it. The problem is that it's unlikely that many ISPs, companies, universities etc will immediately rush out and change their IMAP and POP servers over to wave, particularly if the integration with classical e-mail isn't great. I mean, how useful would it be to have this amazing new way of communicating if there isn't anyone to communicate with. I imagine it'll be like the early days of facebook when it was only open to university students and I had 2 friends! I just hope it doesn't take too long for wave to become ubiquitous; it'll be quite boring otherwise...

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