The following post falls into a category that I hope I’ll be doing many more of a similar type. I want to highlight a specific developer. Moreover, I want to highlight a developer that has shared their efforts with us here in our forums. So the idea behind the “Developer Spotlight” is that it highlights the efforts of developers that have joined our forums and contributed to the forums. Thus, making the forums a much more rich and enjoyable experience for all.
So, our first developers to be highlighted in the Developer Spotlight is the folks at waveDOTto.
Their development efforts in Google Wave include the following:
At present there are a few robots and gadgets and a test desktop client for the fedone reference server…
Robots
hangman- http://wave.to/robots/hangman lets you play hangman
Rssybot (new!) – http://wave.to/robots/rssybot allows you to turn wave into an rss reader
Wave Live Messenger (new!) – http://www.wave.to/robots/wavelivemessenger/ chat to your messenger contacts through wave!
Starify – http://wave.to/robots/starifybot/ allows you to star waves
Gadgets
floodit - http://www.wave.to/gadgets/floodit/ simple game… could keep you occupied for hours…?
hangman - http://www.wave.to/gadgets/hangman/ lets you play hangman. Gadget style!
iWave - http://www.wave.to/gadgets/iWave/ the gadget interfaces with facebook to create a publicly viewable profile on wave
Desktop
http://www.wave.to/desktop/simple client that interacts with the fedone reference server
Let’s start with the Rssbot. First check out this video of the bot in action:
You can see how this takes having an RSS Feed on your site to a whole new level. If you want to read something from the headlines folks don’t have to leave your site. They can read the feed article that interests them and then continue surfing your (not leaving your) site.
You could see how we are really going to have to think about how web-sites get built. You could just have a collection of Waves that you pick and choose to make up the pieces of what is thought of as a website. Surfing the web would become surfing the waves.
Starify is a neat little robot that adds the ability to “star” waves similar to how you would “star” messages in Gmail.
Wave Live Messenger is very cool. You gotta see this video:
So how could this possibly be used. I mean it pretty much just takes your Messenger and puts it in a Wave. Well that alone is a good thing. So as I said above your online experience could just be a collection of waves that you use and surf the net with. What I am getting at here is that you don’t require to have another application up and running. Just you web browser. One app that does what many other apps use to do. One app only using and drawing on the memory required for that app. That frees up a lot for your computer to do other things. Not to mention it is just very cool!
Next, I would like to say a few words on iWave. First, lets watch the video:
So this is a social media junkies dream wave. Integration with your Facebook profile. Good, but what I see is the possible integration with an Outlook type signature for changing business cards, Linkin profiles, etc, etc. This would be great during a meeting where typically we all get up and pass out our cards. Now we just meet online and receive the profile via subscribing to the Wave. Now that is not to dismiss the importance that the Facebook crowd will see in this neat little gadget. I just always jump to business applications.
The hangman and floodit gadgets are games and are fun. I am quite sure that Wave has the ability to take the online gaming platform to dizzying levels, but like Wave itself that is very much at a modest stage of development.
The Wave Client application is for those of you who were building a wave server. What you quickly realize is there is no web server application to go with it. Instead Google provides this client that allows some integration. The Wave Client application that waveDOTto built is a little nice and has a few more features. They describe it as such:
This project was an experiment to see if it was possible to build a GUI client. I took the reference server and client and began to decode the reference command line client. After decoding the client the next step was to create an API that could interface between the client-server communication system that Google provides and a user interface. The end result is an API which has been very well documented and a very simple user interface which provides all of the functionality that the command line one does.
This desktop client is only compatible with the reference server and not the sandbox one. Google is yet to finalize the client server communication model so in respect to all the possible changes development of the server has stopped for the time being. You are still able to download it and have a play about with it though! Editing, improving, modifying the client should be easy as the API and client are very well documented and the API abstracts the underlying complexity of communication with the Google Wave server.
They have a few images on their site so that you can see what it looks like. Also, I think they have update to this application as the reference server keeps updating itself.
So there you have our first Developer Spotlight. Quite an impressive list for the short time that Wave development has been available. Great job to waveDOTto. Keep up the good work and we hope to hear more and more from you in our forums as you continue your development efforts.
So, who will be the next developer to be in the spotlight. Well if you want it to be you, you need to get into our forums and start sharing with other developers. The aim is to provide the greatest experience to developers that is possible by having active forums and giving them some “kudos” for their great efforts.
KUDOS to waveDOTto.
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