2010/01/09

Upcoming Wave presentations

I'll be presenting two talks for developers:

1) Atlanta Java Users Group, February 16, 2010
2) Devnexus, March, 8 or 9, 2010

"Google Wave for Developers"

Summary:

Google introduced Wave saying that this new online collaboration tool "reinvents email". But they have offered developers a lot more than that. The Wave architecture incorporates many innovations since email - especially live cooperative editing. So Google challenges us to reinvent our communication apps with these possibilities in mind.

Wave is a big topic so the talk is organized in three parts with time for discussion:

1. Wave - Product, Platform, and Protocol.
An overview of Wave emphasizing the Wave platform for extension development.

2. Wave architecture - Patterns for development.
Approaches for using Wave's live synchronization layer with new and existing web applications.

3. Development of Wave robots in Java.
The API for building Wave robots that watch user activity and respond with edits. Robot services range from simple text substitution to interfaces to existing web services.

2009/07/20

The Economic Waves of Google Wave

I gave a talk recently titled "A Strategic View of Wave" and concluded that Wave will change everything. Here are my speaker's notes if you would like to read my first take. Better, I will be expanding on them here, so follow the feed.

The meeting gave Atlanta a bit of angular momentum around Wave. But, I wondered, how can we achieve cyclone?

The next day, a briefing on a strategy for Atlanta economic development was released by the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.The study briefing is linked at Optimism Abounds on a New Economic Development Strategy.

I am awestruck by the huge oppotunity, for Atlanta and for each of us! To begin the conversation I offer this matrix of the economic wave that will accompany Google Wave.


Economic Waves of Google Wave


I was at Google I/O in May. Since then I have been thinking about the ecosystem of Wave extensions and a web enabled by a fast auction layer. For the next year I'll be devoting my energy to these by advocacy, strategic consulting and demos.

Let's build a Wave industry in Atlanta.