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Introduction and Demonstration of Google Wave. Zhenhua Guo. Google Wave. An online tool for real-time communication and collaboration .
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Google Wave • An online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. • A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. • How many wave systems out there?Many • Public: https://wave.google.com(username@gmail.com) • Sandbox: https://wavesandbox.com(username@wavesandbox.com) • Waves bound to Google Apps:Suppose domain is infomall.orghttp://wave.google.com/a/infomall.org(username@infomall.org)
Google Apps • A service from Google for using custom domain names with several Google productsincluding Gmail, Calendar, Talk, Docs, Wave, etc. • Google hosts services and you provide a domain name • Bind infomall.org to Google Apps • Email: mail.google.com/a/infomall.orgusername@infomall.org • Wave: wave.google.com/a/infomall.org • Docs: docs.google.com/a/infomall.org
Panels • Navigation • Contact • Wave list • Wave content
Wave A threaded discussion • Follow/Unfollow • Move/Trash • Mark as read/unread • Tag • Create new wave • Add/remove participants • Search
Search http://www.google.com/support/wave/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=162900
Wave content • Rich text • Color • Font • Hyperlink • Attachment • Google Gadget • Image
Wave Extensions • Robot • Robots are applications which can be added to waves as wave participants. • Automate tasks • Gadget • a shared program which runs within the wave, and to which all participants have access. Improve richness
Robots • A robot can • read the contents of a wave in which it participates, • modify the wave's contents • add or remove participants • create new messages and new waves • …… • Deployment • Google App Engine • Account of robots • spellchecker@appspot.com • wordcounter@appspot.com Then add a robot to a wave like adding any other participant
Emaily • Add emaily-wave@appspot.com to your contact list • Add the robot to a wavelet • Connection of Wave and Email • to wave from mail • to mail inbox from wave Your friend Mail Wave You Your friend Mail Wave You
Tweety-wave • Add tweety-wave@appspot.com • Read/update tweets without going to twitter.com
Other robots elizarobot • Chatbot • Ask some stupid questions • elizarobot@appspot.com Igor • a Google Wave robot to manage your references • Whe you type “blah blah blah (cite x) blah”Igor will notice the (cite x), connect to PubMed(or other reference db), search for articles where the title, authors or journal contain xand then pull in the relevant citation.
Possible research robots • License robot • Reference management • Writing papers collaboratively • Workflow composition
Resources Infomall.org Wave • https://wave.google.com/a/infomall.org/ Infmall.org control panel • https://www.google.com/a/infomall.org