On the top of a Wave you see further

Today I was pleasantly surprised with an invitation to the Wave Sandbox. This is where Wave is finding its final form before it is released to the public.

Getting an invitation at this stage is something that I consider a compliment; Wave is still very young and it is still being developed. The reason why I receive this invitation: I worked with Tom to get him his Wave account, I helped him find the funding to go to the Wave hackaton in Cupertino to develop the MediaWiki / Wave interface.

I expressed the importance of the internationalisation and localisation of Wave. It may have all the WYSIWYG attributes that we are looking for in improved usability, but as long as it does not support our languages it cannot be adopted.
Thanks,
      GerardM

One more reason to come to the Wiki meet in New York

Just two screenshots to make you want to come..

 

  

Don't you agree that this is really interesting ? Remember, there are a few more days to make it look even more spiffy.

Thanks,

     GerardM

More Waves

Essential to me and many of my friends is the license for Wave. The patent license has already been posted. It is short and it is sweet.

"Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, Google and its affiliates hereby grant to you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this License) patent license for patents necessarily infringed by implementation of this specification. If you institute patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the implementation of the specification constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses for the specification granted to you under this License shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed."

In addition to the license, a contributor to the protocol has to provide either an individual or an organisational contributor license agreement AND in order to get a patch to the protocol accepted, a production-quality patch for the reference implementation has to be provided.

For Wave technology to succeed, is must be easily adopted and be adopted as widely as possible. Given that Wave is based on peer to peer technology, only by making client or server applications available cooperation can be ensured. By restricting the use of software cooperation in a Wave is prevented and the usefulness of the functionality is reduced
Thanks,
      GerardM.

Google wave

I just watched yesterday's developer presentation of Google Wave. It stole the thunder of bing and deservedly so. It is the difference between a completely proprietary search system and an open source system that integrates many of the paradigms of the modern Internet. It is the difference between a "me too" system and something "new".

I think wave has the potential to make a big difference. The one thing that struck me was how much those aspects that make a Wiki are integrated already. The usability of this still very early product is awesome. When you see this demonstration and you think Wikipedia, you may find like me that much of the functionality is already there.. Sure I have not seen the "flagged revisions" or the "citations" but both will be the kind of functionality that so many people / organisations will need that I am sure that that will happen.

What do you think, is this the kind of open source functionality that would fit Wikipedia?
Thanks,
GerardM