The Geekorium

Home of Rex Havoc, Space Adventurer and other assorted Geekeries.

  1. Expectations

    Set suitable expectations. Despite the months of buzz, and blogosphere– and Twitterverse-wide clamoring for Google Wave invites, the product is still in preview and has some rough edges. Therefore, it does all parties good to be realistic, even if everybody is psyched to be the first kid on their block to use it on a live project.

    6 Tips For Using Google Wave On Your First Project.

    This is the first of six excellent things to keep in mind when using Wave for the first time, let alone on a project. Wave is full of potential, but people seem to forget it’s still just getting off the ground.

    I love that people are using it for projects already.

  2. A Wave Extension Market Place?

    Google Wave to have application store | News | TechRadar UK

    This will be a very important development in the success of Wave. The iPhone has grown enormously by making high quality apps simple to pay for and receive. The key difference for Wave will be that the protocol is open for anyone to extend, and the main client (the Google Wave interface) is web based.

    Keep in mind too, that over time other clients will emerge that will access the Wave protocol, and it will be interesting to see if the marketplace will extend to such clients.

  9. Wave the Product

    The first of Google Wave’s “Three Ps” announced at the Google I/O Developer Conference was Google Wave the Product.

    As previously mentioned, Google’s Wave product is a re-invention of our traditional web communications. It combines elements of email, instant messaging, and real-time collaboration in a completely new way. It is set to become a replacement or alternative to their Gmail and Gtalk products, but contains a lot more.

    The distinction of the Google Wave product is that it will run on Google’s servers, using Google’s bandwidth, and have all their weight behind it, driving it. It might also mean it will include their advertising, and the more paranoid among us might think it has the downside of running on their infrastructure.

    It is more than likely they will offer free and paid plans similar to those they offer Google Apps users. It will come default with a select set of features such as the inline spell checker/corrector, and translation robot. “Wave the Product” is the obvious public face of Google Wave, and the way Google will monetise their invention.

    For those that want more Google offers Wave the Platform