Judson Flamm (Dev - GA Portfolio) said...

I agree Joel! I was there at the keynote, in SF. Google Wave’s future reach into personal and collaborative activities will be habit transforming!

I wonder at the possible custom Extensions that we could develop for our own internal use. What a new world of potential in this space!

June 1, 2009 9:41 am #

Jonathan said...

Except that Google petitioned the CA supreme court to overrule proposition 8. Google. The corporation Google went to the supreme court and asked it to overturn prop 8. Doesn’t that just make you sick? I have a hard time supporting that, don’t you?
http://data.lambdalegal.org/in-court/downloads/strauss_ca_20090115_google-et-al.pdf

June 1, 2009 9:52 am #

Dianne Kerr said...

Forever change. But this is awesome. So many positive things that can be done. Jonathan – Its unfortunate they have chosen to support this but, every time I find a name to take to the temple using their technology – I’ll figure the Lord’s work continues in spite of these efforts.

June 1, 2009 12:32 pm #

Jeremy said...

As I was watching the demo video the other day I was thinking… “Man, this would be nice if we could use it for church work.”

Joel… make it so!

June 2, 2009 2:54 am #

Gabriel Dayley said...

I was also at the keynote and was extremely impressed by the work Google is doing, especially around standards based technologies like HTML and Javascript. Joel, did you notice this was all running in the browser and built with GWT on top of HTML 5?

I am really excited about what GWT can do for us here at the Church in developing technologies that will greatly enhance the experience for our users. Go GWT!

June 4, 2009 10:42 am #

Bryan Hinton said...

Wave is definitely interesting – although I expect that the showcase effect it had on GMail will be much less of a big deal in the long run than the underlying api. Most people have little idea how to handle the email deluge that is occurring and I find nothing in Wave that would change that. If anything with the introducing of IMs and inline/multiple replies it will further slow most people’s processing of their inbox

June 7, 2009 7:02 am #

Judson Flamm (Dev - GA Portfolio) said...

Let me explain some of my view of Wave:

- Think of the advantages of a hosted document, without the hassles of versioning (like in Sharepoint) because the document is real-time editable by everyone (Wave handles the real-time visual merge of input).

- Then imagine the convenience of rapid communication like Instant Messaging. Because the document itself is a real time instant message stream of data.

- Add the power of running your own Wave Server with your own proprietary extensions for your internal people and security; yet still be able to connect with outside Wave users without allowing use of those internal extensions.

- Don’t forget one of the Biggest Features – Integration with other data sources and outputs like Internal Business Processes. Wave could be the next big Worklfow engine, with the help of internal business processes extensions! It could even be a Cross Organization Workflow Engine, wow!

- Wave is not merely a simple communications tool, it is a Live Document Application and Open Protocol. That is at the heart of Business Process Management, Enterprise Content Management, and many other core business needs. A Wave’s document by default is open structured. Imagine what Business Needs you could fulfil by applying a structure to the data in a Wave, and enforcing all input to the Wave to adhere to that structure; any structure like a table, a form, or a process of forms. That’s exactly what Extensions can do for Wave; huge potential!

Expect to see a Microsoft Implementation of Wave, using Google’s released open protocol. They know what they stand to loose if they don;t have a server that speaks Wave. Imagine that server connecting Waves with office integration points.

The Church may not embrace Wave right away, that will be determined by need and faith in the technology. But if it starts to replace email usage patterns then we would be crazy to not adopt it and leverage it

Not to mention, Wave, like Sharepoint, might fill a need larger than its indented purpose before its mainstream purposes are adopted, i.e. BPM.

As for how people handle their in-boxes, we can’t do anything to reduce the information that people need to consume. All we can do is make it more convenient. And I see that all over Wave!

Have a good one my friends

June 8, 2009 4:27 pm #