Google engineer David Wang explains how collaborative editing through concurrency control and operational transform work in Google Wave.
You can also check it out on youtube.com.
Integration, a form of an extension, is a wonderful concept that the Google Wave team capitalized on. Through integration, users will be able to bridge the gap between various websites and Google Wave. One example of this is Twitter. Users will be able to see other people’s tweets, search tweets, and simply tweet on Twitter through Google Wave. Integration will allow wave users to be able to manage various types of websites all on Google Wave. Google has invented a software that will eliminate the need to surf through numerous accounts online to check up on updates.
As people embed photos and videos onto their websites, waves will also have the capability of being embedded into websites. This is truly remarkable because all of the same functions that are possible on Google Wave will also be possible on any website simply through embedding. Through this ability, a company can embed a wave onto their own company website and have conversations with customers through waves. A family can create a blog, converse and post photos and videos at ease through embedding a wave into the blog.
The video above shows how easy it is to post photos onto a wave, and it also shows how easy and efficient it is to embed a wave onto a website.
Here you will see a couple examples of extensions, and the second example is a phenomenal robot named Rosie. With this, you can talk to anyone in the world!
We wanted to show you a short clip of gadgets that the Google Wave Team has implemented into their waves. They are truly remarkable! I can’t wait to play a game of Scrabble with other wave users!
