The default start screen has been changed. You can now start a new wave containing some prefilled content.

Templates are not something new The Shiny Wave had a post about a user contributed list of Wave templates. I’m not sure if any of the templates from the project has been reused. But some of the ideas have. The difference is that with this new addition you do not have to find a wave template and the create a new Wave based on this.

An example of this looks like this.

The idea is fantastic, it will allow you have some much better synchronized and harmonized waves. It seems like it is missing the option of adding your own templates to the list. It could be some extensions you added or something defined in your Wave for your Enterprise.

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Probably the most requested feature of Google Wave has been delivered yesterday. It is simply to get email notification when a Wave changes.

It is quite easy to start to use. Simply select the dropdown button on your inbox, select notifications. Then you have the option to select how often you want the notifications.

The email you then will get looks like the following.

One feature missing feature is that it is not possible to look for updates in the inbox. I might only be interested in updates in Wave, when a search term is updated. So I only get updates when Waves with the word SAP or the tag SAP is updated.

I currently use Google Wave Notifier to get updates, when a Wave is changing. The program gives instant notifications when your inbox changes. It is quite useful. But it is probably not a solution for non-it savvy users how don’t want to install all kinds of addons.

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If you are in Copenhagen this week it might be worth going by the IT-university. We are having our 2.nd Google Wave meetup there.

This time we will focus on development of gadgets. There will be demonstrations on how gadgets and robots can be created.

Jacob Andersen will show how to create a python robot that can convert a wave to a pdf file. The code can already be found at github http://github.com/jacobandresen/pdf-thingy 

Daniel Graversen (me) will talk how to make gadgets using Flex. I just need to create a presentation.

I hope that we can get somebody to tell how wave is useful in their industry.

The event will take place Wednesday the 3 of February. The room number will be availed on Wednesday on the Wave.

For more information look see this Wave.

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I was looking at the Wave robot Annoty. Annoty is a Google Wave robot which is able to change the text as you write.

To add the robot simply, add annoty@appspot.com to the Wave.

The robot implements usage of regular expression, which makes it easy to extend the robots functionality. The robot contains option to add commands, when you are typing commands like the following.

When the user enters italic, the text will be converted to italic. A regular expression could also be used, which will make usage much easier.

The robot also contains easy linking to ie. bug reports which could be identified by a Jira number or debian number.

A demonstration of the robot can be seen on the video blow.

The robot is an example on how the robot can be used to help with providing more context to a conversation. It is like the demo DJ Adams where he retrieves the complete text from sevice calls in the SAP backend. See his demo below.

The robot did not respond during the review, so it is only based on the video.

Would you recommend any robots, which also can help with adding context to the Wave?

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It is interesting to see how new technologies are adopted. One marker is the number of books in the field. The more books on a topic the more it looks like it is gaining traction.

Google Wave is becoming popular and popular everyday as developers and new users learn and find ways to improve it. We have heard of so many reviews, websites and seen video tutorials about the wave. Many said it will replace the traditional email, instant messengers and other means of communication. Nevertheless, the Google Wave so to say is the next big thing in the industry of social networking. It is so much applicable to almost all sorts of environments; be it offices, schools, or homes; wave enables people interact without limits. Even though the wave may have rough edges and unstable operations, the Google team, with so many developers are making the best to provide the world with the most convenient and limitless tool. I know for sure that many internet fans out there crave to test out Google Wave.

O’reilly Media will release the book “Google Wave: Up and Running”. It costs $29.99 and you can purchase it here (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596806002). The book aims to provide tutorials and even some easy step by step procedures on how to use and build extensions for Google Wave, the exciting new real-time communication and collaboration technology that unifies email, instant messaging (IM), wiki, and social networking functions in one integrated platform. With this book, you’ll quickly learn about Google Wave client and how to use Google Wave’s APIs to extend the platform and customize its functions and display.”

The book which has already been published is the Complete Wave Guide, which covers how users can interact with Wave. I have just read the online version, but it is fairly easy to read and contains lots of practical informations. The books is available online, but you can also download the book for 6$. I have not seen a book like this for Android.

A way to compare the release of books with with how Android books has been released. The beta release of Android SDK was from August 18 2008. The first book I have found is 29 July 2008, so it was based on the alpha SDK of Android. It does make sense that the book can be published before the SDK, because Android was public much earlier in the process. Where as Wave as private until May 2009.

The full list of Android books the releases is the following, according to what I could find.

• ANDROID A PROGRAMMERS GUIDE July 2008
• Professional Android Application Development Nov 2008
• Hello, Android: Introducing Google’s Mobile Development Platform Dec 2008
• The Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development Febuary 2009
• Google on the Go: Using an Android-Powered Mobile Phone Febuary 2009
• Unlocking Android April 2009
• Android Application Development: Programming with the Google SDK May 2009
• Beginning Android June 2009
• Android Wireless Application Development September 2009

It is a kind of impressing that this many books has been released on the topic of Android. I’m not sure on how stable the API is, is the first books for the beta relase already outdated. I could imagine Wave development books also will be outdated quite fast, since the APIs are not stable yet.

There has been published 8 books on just over a year on Android. Will we get more with Wave? Will there be any e-books for developers?

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On Thursday Daniel Graversen gave a presentation on Google Wave at Dongenergy, one of the largest companies in Denmark. The presentation was given as part of a SOA workshop, and Wave was introduced as a place where SOA could be leveraged.

The presentation was only on 15 minuttes, so there was not a lot of time to go into all the details, only the basics of Wave was covered:

• Wave editing and chat demonstration
• How the Gravity client works and real time editing of the Wave.
• SAP customer service robot which demostrates the use Wave as a Enterprise Service client.

You can see the slides below.

The most interesting was a 1 hour workshop, where we discussed how Wave could be used in organizations the size of Dong Energy. The result of this discussion will be posted in a future blog post.

If you need a presentation on Google Wave for our company or organization send a mail to dgr@WaveOnBusiness.com or Wave to dgraversen@googlewave.com, and we can arrange a presentation.

Cross posted to Wave on Business.

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I tried the iphone app Waveboarder. It is a $0.99 application, which make the browsing of Wave on the Iphone app easier.

I read TechCrunchs Waveboard Puts Google Wave iPhone Application Up For Sale where they inteduce the application. With the low price I need to try it.

A demo of the application can be seen on youtube.

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.

Wave boarder can be downloaded from itunes.

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The format of capabilities.xml has been changed. I have looked at the http://code.google.com/intl/da/apis/wave/extensions/robots/ and it is now possible to also specify the profile.

The new code looks like the following.

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.

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I got my Asus Eee PC with a 10″ 1024×600 screen two weeks ago. It would be very useful to have Google Wave on this computer. The first thing I did was to attach the computer to a large external screen and then run the Wave. It worked pretty well because you could see everything.

The big advantage of a laptop computer is that it can be brought anywhere. Besides, its light and not bulky. Well, mine has a really long battery life that can last for a full working day if it set to standby mode when it is not being used. This also works well if you are going to write or note important points in meetings or events.

I used the notebook to tweet, write notes and work in wave.

If you don’t change any of the windows settings you cannot see much like shown on the following image.

It is fairly easy to work in wave with the Eee. The screen is not big, but it is possible to make the Wave panel larger to write well. There is still a large part in the window, which is taken by the header and form fields. The Eee has a mode where it is possible to mimic a larger screen and thereby roll the windows so you only see the wave.

Firefox also has to be in Full screen. This way you get more space to write on and it also removes the bar in the window screen.

The problem with the Wave exists if you start adding images or gadgets. They can often not fit into the small 600 pixels in height. I tried to use the Gravity Gadget on the computer and it was very difficult to get a full overview of the process because the screen was to small.

Typing on it is another problem I noticed in the beginning because I thought  it will be slow. There was too much JavaScript for the Atom processor. It only seems to have been improved I can now write as fast as I want.

The off-line wave mode does also work pretty well. What you type will get synced in with the wave when you get back on-line. This is also interesting if you want to save the battery by stopping the Wifi connection or to any conference where the Internet connection is unstable.

I see it is possible to use wave also on small notebooks like mine. They can handle a much richer environment than mobile phones.

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I have been very pleased with how the production Wave system worked the first day.

Compared to the sandbox I enjoy working in the production system. It is nice to start it an almost empty mailbox, where you can start from. When you have said what you want you can archive the waves, and they will not pop in to you inbox.

I have had three (I’m a big shot) conversations with different peers in the wave system. It was easy and fast to communicate with them. The wave popped into my inbox, when somebody had any comments.

It would be nice to know if your peers was online, so you knew if the where able to respond. Or that you got a popup from the Google Talk gadget when a new wave was created for you.

There are some incoming waves that I have no reason to be a part of. I don’t know why these messages come into my inbox. It seem a kind of random. Is this the spam we will see in Wave. I don’t think anybody has created spam bots yet, thought it would be fairly easy to make.

I had a problem with my WP-BOT, which created a blog with the wave. The blog wp-bot.masteringwave.com uses the Wavr plugin. This plugin had hardcoded the some sources from the wave sandbox, because it nobody knew how it would be. I have created a but report on it.

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