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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I’m currently waiting for invites to the live Wave system,. The sandbox works still fine, so I can still collaborate. So an obvious choose is to follow up on what is happening and research for news. Try to have a look at the API’s for the system, and then you can start your development. Try to get the AppEngine plugin up and running.

There are some interesting blogs, to read for the day. ReadWriteWeb has an article on what to expect from the Wave launch, this gives some interesting pointers to how the launch will take place. Among that you can nominate 8 friends with invitations. There will be no new features for the wave system.

Lars Rasmussen and Stephanie Hannon wrote about what he google blog. They write about the teams process and the fun they had when they was at a school and had the children write stories together. Lars and Stephanie believe that people will be more productive with wave when communicating and collaborating, which I believe is a large part of the day. I would have to agree with them.

Stephanie Hannon also wrote about what happened in the wave sandbox on the google blog. She mentions the SAP and Sales force as some of the vendors how have made some impressive demos of the potentials.

Stop checking the twitter channel for #googlewave, it is way to full today so you will just get a lot of messages. It is really difficult to follow the conversations. The just wait till people starts receiving the team had received of feedback and the use cases which was presented from the sandbox period.

So when you get online try to check out the maps gadget, Pamela Fox has made.

Then hope that you get an invitation. I just hope that I get an invitation for my domain, so I can start collaborating with the team.

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Just found that a new JAVA API of the robots is available on the download site. The difference in the code can be seen on the changes page.

One interesting concept is the AbstractRobot which has been added. From my look at it this class gives is able to create the capabilities XML and the profile information. So you only need to implement one class and then you can have all the information you need one place. This will make it much easier to program robots. The Rave Ruby frameworks has something like this, you just implement the methods for each event you want to have. Then the framework can manage to create the capabilities XML file. The AbstractRobotServlet and ProfileServlet was not changed, this could lead to thoughts about deprecation of these classes.

Of other changes the Annotations and Range has better toString functions, which was missing when you needed to debug applications.

I hope there will be posted a change to the tutorial, so we can start using the AbstractRobot instead.

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In this week there has been some interesting blogs about Google Wave and Enterprise.

• The Fedone Book has been created by James Purser. It contains a description on how to install the example wave server and getting started with using it.
• GoogleWaveBlogger has created a blog about Google Wave + Google Voice = The Holy Grail. He gives ideas on how a mashup of Wave and Voice could be. With this post in mind, it looks like Wave can be mashed up with many different technologies to make new killer apps.
• A wave forum has also been created, where it is possible to talk about Wave applications and usages.
• Dagfinn Parnas has created a SAP Blog about how to embed waves in SAP enterprise portals. This gives some really nice examples on the usage of wave in portals.
• Talking about embedding Waves in pages, I wrote a blog about embedding Wave in wordpress. The story was picked up by Mashable and also on other sites.
• The last I found was an example on a robot to integrate with Salesforce. The blog by Kyle Roche, is a tutorial which go in details with how to create the robot. I like the API to Salesforce; it looks really easy to get started with compared to using Webservices.
• A wave hackathon was held in Copenhagen, I blogged about it and it was also written on Version2 a Danish media.
• DJ Adams has also created an example on how Wave can call a SAP REST service to get data about transports.
• Process-One made a demo of their Wave server. It should be implemented in Erlang and had realtime updates between users. So users can see each other’s key stroke as they type. The UI is not as impressive as Googles but Process One have probably been working on the protocol. They are using the ejabberd to the XMPP/Wave communication and it looks promising. Their server could be one of the first third-party wave servers created.

If you have any comments or know any post that I have missed, please comment on this post.

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For this week there has been some interesting Wave blogs.

• SAP Research in Brisbane had created a screen cast of their first Gadget. A gadget where people could collaborate on creating a process model. After the collaboration was done it was possible to export the process model and implement the model in SAP BPM. The screen cast show how complex gadgets can be and how they can assist with the collaboration. Also see Richards Hircsh response, which contains some insight full comments about the status.
• LinkedProcess trying to make a more general protocol for Wave. The blog Social Computing or Let the bots talk! Gives a great overview of the technology, which allows the user to submit scripts to be executed on other hosts via XMPP.
• CodeBot – A Coding Robot for Google Wave contains a demo on how to syntax highlight code in the wave.
• Eye on FDA: Google Wave, Part 2 Examples on how Wave can be used in the pharmacy industry to help in some of the processes they have. It is always nice to get some concrete examples on how Wave can be used to help organizations.
• App Engine SDK 1.2.5 released which is not Wave, but has some very interesting perspectives for Wave. It supports XMPP, which could mean that it is possible create wave clients/servers on Appengine.
• I found the youtube video embedded below on, it is rather old now. It contains some interesting facts. 50 enginers in Google working on Wave. Make sure the protocol is open. Takes 2½ half year with the first wave application, but they hope that other groups will implement servers faster. Google compliments Twitter, and are working on ways to integrate twitter closer with wave.
• Björn Wibben has created a blog about using jQuery in gadgets it looks quite interesting.
• 7 Reasons Why Google Wave Is Going To Be Awesome
  has some interesting summerization of the features of Wave.

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After a week of vacation I’m back again. I’ll summarize the wave news that I have found for the week.

• Process-One claims on my post that they have made a wave implementation in their software. I cannot find anything about this implementation on their website, but it looks like they are a company which works on Jabber XMPP. So they already have the experience in the protocol framework. Going to be interesting to see a demo of the solution.
• It is now possible to sign up to Google Wave for my domain. Just go to the form and fill out the detail. They don’t say anything about when Wave for my domain will be open for demo. For enterprises it will be a must to have a wave account for their domain. If they had to use regular accounts on the standard Google application it would be very difficult to manage access controls and users.
• The first Danish Google Wave hackathon was performed by Tommy Pedersen. Blog about the event in Danish or translated to English.
• GoogleWaveBlogger has create the article 5 Things Wrong with Google Wave. It gives detailed descriptions the problems with Google Wave. It mentions security, spam, replacement of Google hosted Apps, integration with MS office and Enterprise server installation.

I have probably missed something, so please let me know with a comment.

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It is really fun to be a part of how much Google Wave is being hyped and talked about. I’ll try to write about some resources that I found in the last week or so. If you have other post that I should post please send them using master@masteringwave.com, and will try to put them in the next news.

• I have written a blog at SAP developer network, with information about how SAP can Google wave can collaborate. There is a demo of calling enterprise services (ES) from Wave robots.

• Get more Acquainted with Google Wave an interesting list of videos from the Google Wave Federation Day. It will take some time to view the videos but contains news. Lars comments that we will continue with our accounts in the production enviorment.
• 21st Century Code Works: My Google Wave Client an interesting demo of a Federation client written in Erlang.
• Goolewave tutorial a site with information about tutorials. Hope there will be some interesting tutorials on the site.
• Google Wave: A Shiny, New Web App another view of on Google Wave. Eric points out the user experience can be a little difficult to learn.
• Rave: Google Wave Robots in Ruby a post with information on how to get started with developing Robots using Ruby and Rave. I tried the tutorial and it was an interesting API.
• Release notes for Wave sandbox a post with the latest information on what is being posted in wave. This is the place to follow what is going on.

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Tommy Pedersen shared the link to what is coming in the API.

It looks like the developer preview will stop on September 30th, and then we must hope we can get an account on the production system. So we will not float without wave access for a long time.

What is interesting is that Douwe Osinga from Google is sharing, what they believe they can achieve before the end of the developer preview.

The things I think is the most exciting news are the following:

• The Robots can use other addresses that name@appspot.com. That could mean you could have more robots on the same application making the robots tailored to the user. Also we will see that robots will exist on our own servers and not app-engine.
• A better integration between robots in to Wave, so they robot can perform tasks even the wave is not active by a user.
• Gadgets better support for using Google Web Toolkit, will make it easier for everyone (how is not a Javascript master) to make Gadgets. This is probably lower the barrier to create Gadgets.
• OpenSocial integration for both robots and gadgets. That is something that I’ll need to look more into.
• Insert simple HTML into the waves. This is not possible now, so the robots can make some better looking content easy. Then we need to consider using CSS on the document.
• Open source the robot API it does not matter much now, but for the adoption that will probably make things easier.

I’m impressed with the plan Google has created for the development of the Google Wave API. I hope they have made some of the improvements already otherwise they will have a hard time implementing them all.

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