[ecf-dev] Google Wave

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

I spent some leisure time today looking at the stuff on Google Wave:  
http://wave.google.com. 

A couple of thoughts:

1) The notion of a 'wave' seems to me conceptually *very* similar to 
ECF's concept of a shared object (i.e. the shared object API).  
Interestingly, in the video they even refer to a wave as a shared 
object....i.e. arbitrary state shared among a group of participants.
2) They are apparently publishing an incomplete XMPP extension spec:  
http://www.waveprotocol.org/ for wave provider-to-provider 
communication.  That's sort of interesting and convenient, as we are 
also heavily using XMPP.
3) They are using operational transformation as the synchronization 
approach (like cola):  
http://www.waveprotocol.org/whitepapers/operational-transform
4) Their demo failed in a couple of places...even Google teams are 
subject to network failure :).

It's very interesting stuff...happily very close to some of our own work 
in some respects.  Given their open protocol approach, I think it will 
be natural to interoperate.

Scott