[LRUG] Googley Wavey Invitey

[Alex Young]

Murray Steele wrote:
> 2009/11/26 Alex Young <alex at blackkettle.org>:
>> James Adam wrote:
>>> On 26 Nov 2009, at 10:58, Chris Mear wrote:
>>>> Trying to manage even, say, a to-do list would be like using a wiki
>>>> page as your issue tracker -- you'd have to impose all the
>>>> structure and operations by manual edits.
>>> This is very true. To get the most out of Wave, you need to impose
>>> some of your own ideas about how each document should evolve, what is
>>> appropriate in terms of its evolution, and what it not. It might be
>>> fine in some cases to have long chat-like conversations, but not OK
>>> in others.
>> I think there's a case to be made that custom, single-use-type clients might
>> work well. If you want to use it as a wiki, fire up a wiki client. If you
>> want to use it as a to-do list, fire up a to-do client. Each could impose
>> its own rules about formatting and the visibility of discussion without
>> having to care about storage or communication media at all.
> 
> Oh yes.  I think the protocol is probably powerful enough to support
> different app types.  I'm pretty sure that google docs will eventually
> be a wave app.  Maybe even gmail too (under the hood) - I actually
> want my wave account and gmail account linked, so that I can
> collaborate in wave on something and then press a button to send it
> out into the non-wave enabled world via email.

Here's a link I was trying to remember for my previous post:

http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/2009/10/sap%E2%80%99s-gravity-prototype-business-collaboration-using-google-wave/

Interesting technically, even if the product is not the most exciting in 
the world.

-- 
Alex