I wrote about how Wave could be used for documenting conferences in this post. Unfortunately I was only able to write a little, because of a shaky Internet. And beeing offline does make it a bit more deficult to write in wave at the same time. I did write some notes from some keynotes and lectures, but there needs to be more people working on the wave at the same time, otherwise you could just as well use Evernote for the notes.
Since SAP Teched there has been two conferences for Enterprises/Wave with relevant content. The first was eComm in Amsterdam where the starting wave is this.
This starting wave is a index, contain basic information about the venue and a list of all the different session with waves. In the Waves it looks like one or two authers has written the main blip, while others have commented bellow. A wave form the event from the session “Why Should You Care About Google Wave?”, is dealing with Wave and is the most interesting.
The intro Blip is have not been touch, but a lot of people have commented on the wave. With this form of communication you get a lasting conversation, and are able to have a conversation about all the different areas covered. Presenters can also help sorting out some of the questions.
The other conference is the E2conf, which is currently taking place in San Fransisco. The main wave is this wave. The layout is almost the same. On some waves they have more tags concerning how has created the wave. The use of tags will in future make it easier to do research.
An example of a Wave from E2conf is the debate about Integrating Google Wave into the Enterprise. This has a main blip written by three authors. After the talk a Ben Kepes wrote about highlights from the talk at a blog with the same name. Using this form of communication will make it much easier for bloggers/reporters to capture everything and create their versions of the content.
I like being able to read what has been said in a presentation. That way I don’t have to see the presentation, if nothing new has happened. It will make it much easier to find the content worth looking into. Get the links showed on it.
The TEDxCopenhagen is currently running. They are writing in this wave in Danish. They are just using one wave, but the depth of the conference is probably not as big as for a 1 hour session. So each session has its own blip, where the comments are written in. It make it really easy to see what is live and who said what. But you cann’t have discussions about any items in this context.
It is interesting to see someone typing, a summery of what is going on live. With each of those waves you have someone to talk to, how is also interested in the topic and you can learn more from the sessions.You can also find pictures someone has taken, so you can illustrate your posts.
I hope there will be more waving from conferences, because it adds more content than you get from the tweets.
It works easier than using the normal Safari browser for Wave. The application contains some extra functions for looking between the waves.
Even with this application, Wave is not useful on my iTouch. I can see the waves and browse. But if i need to update or write something it does not make much sense. I just got a text area that I cannot see anything in. It is okay if you need to look up some information in Wave, but other than that it cannot be used at the moment.
I’m looking forward to a real client for iphone/itouch.
This is much nicer than using the profile servlet, which served the same informations. With the help of this new XML format you can delete your profile servlet. I cannot imagine a time, where the profile image needs to change dependant of which user is calling it. I don’t think you have the informaiton in the request sendt to get the profile informaiton. So thise values will always be hardcoded.
It does not provide much of a change in Python, since python already generates the document. Then we just need the Java API also to follow the python, so it also can create the cababilites based on configuration in a class file.
I had when I first got access to Wave, I wrote a blog about how to create a Wave Robot using Grails. This blog can be read at Graversen.org.
Now David Trattnig has created a plugin to Grails for developing Wave applications. I had to try it out and see how it works.
The first project I tried the plugin on was a failure. I got some error, which I did not think the Wave plugin had created. Just me fumbling around. So I created a new project to see if it was better. The result was much better on the second try. I got a functional robot working without much code.
When you run the commands.
grails install-plugin wave
grails create-wave-robot
You get all the objects you need to create a robot, which is bacisly just one file as a service. You can then start coding in this file. The plugin automaticly handles the creation of the URL mappings needed for the Robot to work.
In Wave you normaly have to create the capabilities.xml file as a seperate file outsite the code. This is irretating to be working with and you have to make sure to update the file. With this plugin all you need to do is to change the begining of the Robot file to something like.
Using this frame work is really easy and takes care of some of the irritating features you always need to use when developing Robots. It does requires some knowledge of Grails/Groovy.
I have not tested the function for embedding waves, but it should also be fairly simple to do. You should just insert the Groovytag.
If you are from the Copenhagen area, please join the Wave meetup that I’m planing. I would love to be able to meet and talk, with people also passioned about Wave.
It should be possible to find enough people, who would like to be smarter on Wave and share their stories.
I’m planing on holding the event 23-26 november from 17-19. Please indicate on the Wave or on doodle, link below.
If you are from the Copenhagen area, please join the Wave meetup that I’m planing. I would love to be able to meet and talk, with people also passioned about Wave.
