Basically… email has been around 40 years. Wave is a rebuild of the concept, building email as it would look with all the modern tools in today’s world. From our perspective, Wave is going to be perfect for hotels, eventually replacing outlook and slimming down on unnecessary meetings, facilitating real time business.

Watching the hour and twenty minutes was better than a sci-fi movie for a heavy eye-lidded, scotch drinking, tired hotel dude. You might not have time, but in case you would actually like to know what these fractured notes are about, watch the embedded video (below)

This stuff is amazing.  I took notes.  I am a dork.  They are incomplete, and possibly erroneous.  They are certainly not words of a developer or programmer.  But I hope they help, and at least save you an hour and seventeen minutes.

And yes, the smiley guy with sunglasses is really “8)” but I have decided to leave my numbered lists with a cute smiley guy. It seems fine to me. =)

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1) open source – they need support and help to complete
2) demonstration of what is possible in the browser
3) the brothers from google maps put this together
4) brand new api that we can have fun with
5) email mimics snail mail; wave is about conversation being a total shared object
6) modeled like bulletin boards
7) split message conversations.. replying in thread to emails allows for multiple messages within one email
8) instant messaging “see letters as you type” and you can switch back and forth from instant or email style typing
9) this allows you to have a live transmission, which means that you are always either reading or writing, with zero waiting.  It speeds it up to real time conversation
10) drag and drop contacts and recipients – it eliminates the confusion adn cat and mouse games involved with catchup.  They installed something called playback, which does a real time rewind of the messages as it happened
11) drag and drop desktop photos that appear on the other person’s computer before it uploads from the host computer.  Drag and drop is the one part that HTML 5 can’t support yet.  It’s the only part of wave you need gears downloaded for.
12) 1st category of API that allows you to embed waves onto your web page
13) one click bot to publish waves directly to blogs.. posting pics or text.  Incredible.
14) creates a filter that allows you to have one client that tracks all online conversations, so you will no longer have to go to a
million different websites to update and track conversations.  “It will make flame wars that much more effective”.
15) mobile devices work incredibly well – real time updating and interaction
16) instant updating of editing –
17) real – time collaborative editing & in line discussion; multiple people can work on a doc at one time
18) playback power tools to review the history of the wave ; able to investigae and manipulate the history of the wave
19) powerful document production tool
20) more than one person can edit the message at the same time and the characters are lkive
21) supports multiple real time language translation between multiple languages simultaneously.
22) whole thing was built on google web toolkit
23) looking for a balance between speed and not being interrupted too often
24) spell checker takes context of word into account and compares to an enormous language model – it gets homonyms yeah the spell check is insanely awesome
25) link detector automatically links words that have relevance to a site – who wants to type links all day?
26) robots are powerful! yay!
27) any open social gadget can sit inside a wave
28) instead of threading messages, everyone edits a single email
29) they did a lot of it to build impossibly addictive games – collaborative or competitive real time chess or sudoko. Playback tool let’s you watch the whole game
30) you can use the API to proxy accounts, IE twitter, or whatever.  You will see all the tweet people, regardless of being a  wave account holder or not
31) *live* (no refresh) audience feedback on twitter through search on wave. search seems interesting, and captures entire threads, conversations, mentions, topics, etc.
32) protocols & algorithms – we want wave to work the same way as email… anyone could build their own wave users… even in competition with google.
33) a completely different google competitor has already built their own email system and use their own wave, while still being able to communicate across servers
34) cute office space joke with “Initech”
35) I think we are looking at a linux built code to use waves, in ASCII old school form.  Crazy
36) rosie the robot does real time language translation from english to whatever… vice versa… amazing.
They “built a simple communication object”… that is mind blowing.

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One Response to “HHotelConsult’s Notes of Google Wave Presentation at I/O Conf.”

  1. Josiah from HotelMarketingStrategies.com

    I gotta tell you Michael – I think Google has a HUGE potential hit with Wave. I appreciate you putting these notes together and saving me 1.5 hours I didn’t have this week 🙂

    From what I’ve read so far, the platform so many possibilities in the hospitality industry. I’ll be very interested to watch it roll out…

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