Google Social
Google wants social badly: Gundotra becomes SVP of social, bonuses depend on social development; http://eicker.at/GoogleSocial
Google introduces Apache Wave: Wave in a Box (WIAB) enters the ASF‘s incubator program; http://eicker.at/ApacheWave
Google: We will expand upon the 200K lines of code we have already open sourced. Go Wave in a Box! http://j.mp/alMzSm
Cool. That’s what we want to see! :-)
Indeed! The doors are wide open again. Who needs Google anyway? ;)
We seem to need their innovation, huh? :-)
Probably they need our innovation to succeed – finally? ;)
No. The only thing they need is us to embrace Wave. I will try hard. :-)
I do still believe it’s all about (innovative) communications. That is what Wave needs badly. A clear purpose at first. The embracement will follow…
Google: “Since the announcement that we will discontinue development of Google Wave as a standalone product, many people have asked us about the future of the open source code and Wave federation protocol. After spending some time on figuring out our next steps, we’d like to share the plan for our contributions over the coming months. – We will expand upon the 200K lines of code we’ve already open sourced (detailed at waveprotocol.org) to flesh out the existing example Wave server and web client into a more complete application or ‘Wave in a Box.’ … This project will not have the full functionality of Google Wave as you know it today. However, we intend to give developers and enterprising users an opportunity to run wave servers and host waves on their own hardware. … While Wave in a Box will be a functional application, the future of Wave will be defined by your contributions. We hope this project will help the Wave developer community continue to grow and evolve.”
RWW: “The release of Wave as an application could be a big deal for developers, especially at businesses that want to take advantage of Wave for real-time collaboration and discussion. – Wave was always intended for people to run on their own machines, but this release will make the process much easier. Developers and enterprise users that have been eyeing Wave will be more likely to take the technology into their own hands and build things like feature-rich Web forums, productivity tools and apps to facilitate collaborative projects.”