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Open Source, compliant Google Wave Server

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This really needs a set of users to help test this. My username on that is zitterbewegung . I have a wave called hacker news.

Link?

http://pygowave.p2k-network.org/waves/ryfHdRJuEA/ ? I really don't know how to export waves. I added jochen to the wave.

"Sorry, you do not have permission to view this Wave. You must be added by the people who participate in this Wave."

My username is jochen

It seems like this implementation requires a second communication channel in order to invite new users. That's interesting - and not too different from traditional IM.

Maybe this time next decade we'll still have email accounts, but they'll contain nothing but invitations to next-gen communication media? Oh, and spam.

Sometimes these are almost impossible to tell apart.

/me waits for the first "Is your board long enough for her wave?" message to hit his inbox.

Weird that you can't make public waves. I guess that's a bug(?)

Anyway my username is jjj

I know you are busy but could you add weaksauce?

Could someone add me as well? username: jraines

Could you please add me as well? thm76 Thanks

Likewise, invite me... I'm ph0rque on there.

Ditto. I'm 'mattyb'.

'stuart' as well if you don't mind

Hi, sant0sk1 please add me as well! Thanks

Could you please add mikemaccana? Thanks.

Could you also add me please? amackera

May I be added too please?

alanthony

bawr here, I'd appreciate it as well.

Name's pshc.

same here, add me: keyframe

please add mattgillooly

benparr is my username.

bjelkeman, please. :)

please add dougp

add mgrouchy pls

jperla please

kfischer

nbrenner

easyfrag

lunchbox

yawniek

marcus

lamnk

void

bts

Zelda?

Whenever I try to add a gadget from the 'All gadgets' link, using the xml url, I get the same error:

-------------- IntegrityError at /gadgets/mine/

(1062, "Duplicate entry 'Wave name' for key 'title'") --------------

I've never seen a good summary of Google Wave. Anyone hear a good one?

It is basically a combination of real-time instant messaging (where each letter typed can be seen as it is typed), email, and collaborative document editing all in one. You can have as many people typing and editing at the same time as you want - which can be very entertaining actually among curious hackers goofing off. The key though is that each conversation is contained in a single object, the wave, and you can add as many participants to that conversation as you like, including "synthetic" participants or robots. Right now robots have to run off Google's app engine and you can write them in either python or java (we chose clojure on top of the JVM). You can also add "gadgets" to the wave, which are client side objects that all participants can see (in the same state) and when the state is changed, all participants see that change as well. Additionally, the wave is tracked temporally, so that you can "replay" the conversation as it occured.

So what we are doing is using a Robot to transfer information between our webapp and Wave and inserting gadgets to give views back into our webapp, etc. Robots are a very powerful idea.

What I've never understood is how this is any different from IRC with a bunch of handy bots (esp. a logging one) sitting in on the channel.

A wave isn't a flow of synchronous text (or asynchronous posts, for that matter) - it's a standing unit of editable text + widgets + threaded comments. Sort of live-wiki-ish.

In Wave you can edit previous text.

You could do the same with the logging bot if it supported line-editing command messages, then just put a GUI on top that translated the visual-editing commands to line-editing semantics. I'm not saying any IRC server/network I've ever seen does this now, but it's not out of the plausibility range and far easier, I think, than pushing an entirely new protocol. But I digress: perhaps I should just set it up myself and see if it really can be done.

gmail meets twitter meets gtalk meets wiki meets pingback - with a twist that you can have web pages a client to wave so you can show there your feeds too and that typing can be seen real time on the other, recipient, side. Oh and add to that that there can be multiple participants. Participants can be robots too, and you can mash up all of that into multiuser game kind of experiences.

... and it's gotta be about jobs creation too!

Harsh...

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Finally, some honesty from open-source hackers.

(I kid because I love)

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