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Hi Folks,
I spent some leisure time today looking at the stuff on Google Wave:
http://wave.google.com.
A couple of thoughts:
1) The notion of a 'wave' seems to me conceptually *very* similar to
ECF's concept of a shared object (i.e. the shared object API).
Interestingly, in the video they even refer to a wave as a shared
object....i.e. arbitrary state shared among a group of participants.
2) They are apparently publishing an incomplete XMPP extension spec:
http://www.waveprotocol.org/ for wave provider-to-provider
communication. That's sort of interesting and convenient, as we are
also heavily using XMPP.
3) They are using operational transformation as the synchronization
approach (like cola):
http://www.waveprotocol.org/whitepapers/operational-transform
4) Their demo failed in a couple of places...even Google teams are
subject to network failure :).
It's very interesting stuff...happily very close to some of our own work
in some respects. Given their open protocol approach, I think it will
be natural to interoperate.
Scott
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