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Well, it has been a tough year for us Wave fans, but here is how Itensil has regrouped. There finalists for an award, and would appreciate your support.

Itensil has developed an exciting breakthrough in team collaboration called emergent process execution. Simply stated, Knowledge Apps turn team action plans into automatically executable workflow. So, when your team has a ‘eureka’ moment, the process is already built and instantly reusable

The awards selection team at TechWeb has recognized Itensil’s accomplishment, and named our Knowledge Apps product a semi-finalist in the Enterprise 2.0 Conference “Launch Pad” competition.

The final 4 will be selected by public voting on the candidates’ 3-minute video presentations.

How cool is that? Well, you can find out in 3 minutes when you look at our contest video.

Your vote will help us win this thing. Here’s how to participate:

• Click to the voting page
• Itensil is the second video from the top — please scroll down past flowchart.com.
• View our 3 minute video and vote for us.

The voting closes on October 8, so please act now, while it’s top of mind.

And please forward this to your colleagues and associates and encourage them to do the same.

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Something I have been meaning to do for a while is post all the videos on Google Wave from I/O 10. So, here they are, enjoy:

Google Wave API design principles: Anatomy of a great extension

Waving across the web

Open source Google Wave: Building your own wave provider

Making smart & scalable Wave robots

Google Wave Media APIs: Attachments can surf too!

Google Wave and the enterprise environment

Google I/O offered 90+ sessions featuring highly technical, in-depth content covering a number of technologies and developer products. All videos and slides are available below. You can check out all the videos from Google I/O at their site here.

As always, please leave your comments below. We love to hear your thoughts.

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If you are not familiar with Second Life™ it is “the Internet’s largest user-created, 3D virtual world community.” Now, I have to admit I don’t know too much about this virtual world. But it seems like getting started is nothing more then making your own avatar and then entering the world and meeting folks. There is also, apparently, a business side to this as well. You can buy and sell products, land and provide virtual services to folks. They have their own “Second Life”currency which translates into “real” currency via a conversion rate.

The video below is a brief introduction if you are not familiar:

Now that you know what Second Life™ is, you will not be surprised to know that there is a great number of Second Life Wavers out there.

Aisha Gala started the SecondLife Wave, which is a place to meet wavers who also use Second Life™. This then lead to another bunch of Second Life™ Waves which are listed below:

Second Life Art Wave

Wave-SL integration

Second Life Deutschland

WINDLIGHT COLLECTION

Second Life Hungary

But the really big news is that the folks that met in Google Wave are going to get together in Second Life™, see all the info for the Dec 19^th event:

Second Life Wave Users Meet-up

Organizing and planning a gathering of Second Life Rezidents who are Google Wave users to discus the potential in integrating XMPP with SL applications. A list of topical questions will be prepared for the event. You can join the conversation already taking place at Wave-SL integration.

DJs

Live music

Demonstration of XMPP-capable bot

Developers Discussion: Integration of Wave with SL(see Wave-SL integration)

Date/Time

Saturday, Dec 19th 2009 – Event will last for 24 hours

Starting at midnight SLT (8am UTC/GMT)

Location

Free University of Berlin (see January Lightfoots’s blip below)

If you’re a Second Life™ user and a Google Waver this is a must attend event. Have fun! But please come back here and tell us how it went, we would love to know.

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Google’s Campfire One is a series of sessions where they invite certain developers to their campus to talk about their ideas and news surrounding their developments. A few nights ago they had the Google Web Tookit 2.0 developers on hand.

Google Web Tookit 2.0 is the development kit offered by Google for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. GWT is used by many products at Google, including Google Wave and Google AdWords. It’s open source, completely free, and used by thousands of developers around the world.

At Google’s Campfire One the developers unveiled the Google Web Tookit 2.0:

After a year and a half of working with teams like Google Wave, AdWords, and Orkut (as well as many others inside and outside of Google), Google Web Toolkit 2.0 has emerged with new tools in its toolkit and more features in its core SDK to meet the demands of today’s web applications.

The video below is from Google’s Campfire One and shows the developers showcasing their new product (it is actually a series of  6 videos, just like being at the real thing):

Two of the big improvements they made in Google Web Tookit 2.0 is:

Faster Apps

Google Web Toolkit now offers a new tool called Speed Tracer, a performance profiler for Google Chrome that allows developers to see what’s going on in a whole new way by enabling diagnosis of hidden problems. Developer-guided code splitting is another new feature that allows developers to split up their application into multiple pieces for much faster startup times. Users download only the JavaScript they need to get started while the rest can be loaded at a later time.

Faster Development

Google Web Toolkit 2.0 also introduces UiBinder, a Declarative UI framework that enables rapid design iteration and a clean separation between presentation layer and application logic. Team projects will benefit from an improved workflow that provides smooth collaboration between designers and developers.

Here is the Speed Tracer Tutorial:

These updates will be well received by Google Wave developers. I think the UiBinder will be a big hit among all developers. If you are not too familiar with GWT but want to be check out some of the GWT Books to help you get started.

Love to hear thoughts from the developers on what they think of the latest update to the GWT.

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I watched this video of Gravity and was simply blown away. This is the best example I have seen, to date, of what Google Wave is.Clearly, what it is not is a replacement for this and that (Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, etc). What it is, is the most awesome business collaboration tool ever developed! It is basically Web 2.0 for business…finally, BTW.

I have taken this description of Gravity right from their site and it reads as such:

Gravity is a prototype developed by SAP Research in Brisbane, Australia and SAP NetWeaver Development providing real-time, cloud-based collaborative business process modelling within Google Wave. We have embedded Gravity as a Google Wave “gadget” that can be added within the Google Wave client. Leveraging the collaborative features of Google Wave, all business process modelling activities get propagated in near real-time to all other participants of the Wave. In addition, participants of the Wave can use all other features provided by Google and its developer community to enrich the collaborative modelling experience.

Now watch this video. After you will understand the unbelievable power/promise that Google Wave can bring to the business world. I say again, it is not for somebody who has 25,000 followers. It is for serious folks trying to do real world problem solving via collaboration…i.e the grown-up side of Web 2.0.

Finally, Web 2.0 for business has arrived and I cannot think of a better example, to date, that truly shows that power it could bring to business. This is just one collaborative process that take’s place in the business world. Typically, this model would have to be built by one person, passed around and reviewed by peers and then the changes recommended by those peers talked about in a meeting. Then the changes agreed too implemented. Then the new model sent around again for concurrence and acceptance.

Again, I emphasis, this is one example of similar type tasks that take place everyday in the business world. The game changing promise that Google Wave brings to business is just amazing and this video highlights that perfectly!

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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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Here is a YouTube video of an interview  taken just after the Developer I/O 09 with the Google Wave founding team – brothers Lars Rasmussen and Jens Rasmussen and Stephanie Hannon to talk about the initial idea behind Wave, and Google’s philosophy in rolling it out. VP Engineering also makes a cameo appearance at the end.

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I have to say, this Robot really impressed me. Not so much by what it does, but the promise of what these types of robots could do.

Igor as explained on the Igor Google Source Code page is:

A proof of concept Google Wave robot that helps people manage the process of adding references to an academic article.

The minimum you’ll need to do to get started is to edit the appengine-web.xml file and put your own app engine application name inside the “application” element.

Note that I’m not normally a Java developer and this really is just a proof of concept. The code lacks tests and is poorly organized.

OTOH sometimes things that seem messy and complicated are that way for a reason. Usually the reason is that Google Wave is still a developer preview and bits of the Java API don’t work yet or need changing (notably getting the IDs of newly created blips and communicating with gadgets).

The debugging log is turned on in the code. I recommend that you look at what’s actually being passed between the Wave server and App Engine in the wire protocol JSON – right now it’s the best way to work out what is and isn’t supported by the Wave API! If it isn’t in the JSON you can’t access it in the robot.

Functions that use regular expressions to modify the text are the most obviously overly complicated pieces of code – patterns have to be matched one at a time because otherwise the String that you’re finding matches on and the internal representation of the contents of the Wave (the TextView) get out of sync.

Below a video of Igor in action (very impressive):

Igor is currently configured to grab references from PubMed, Connotea and CiteUlike. Click on there links to learn more about them.

What is great about this Robot is the way it really does highlight the power that Google Wave Robots could harness. Putting together any kind of technical or research paper just got so much easier.

Imagine being linked to a chemistry reference robot that gives you C2H6O when you type in the word ethanol. Or a quotation robot that gives you “To be or note to be” when you type in “quote hamlet suicide”, etc, etc. The list goes on and on. Basically Google Wave robots could give you very exact information to choose from based on very vague information. Thus, not only free up more time via collaboration but it also shows promise in its ability to drastically cut down on research time.

I’m sure that you can think of many other applications for these types of robots, please share below in comments.

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Firstly, the chief question I receive both via email and Twitter is “How do I get a Google Wave Account?” The second most asked question is “How long do I have to wait?”

Let’s start with – How you get a Google Wave Account:

Don’t ask for an account anywhere else but with the links below. You won’t get one!

Instead, if you’re a developer, fill out the form at
https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignupfordev/.

Or, if you’re not a developer, fill out the form at
https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignup/.

These are the only ways to get an account. Tweeting “Can anybody get me an account?” is just spam.

Also, some folks have had trouble when they sign up when they get there invite. Make sure you see the proper confirmation page after you fill out the form. If you see the same form again, fill it out again, pasting in the email address used for registration and the code embedded in your invitation link at the bootom of the page (you may have to scroll down to see it). Just make sure you get that confirmation page before you leave!

While your waiting for you invite (which could take a few week) you may want to try out PyGo Wave Server. The following about the PyGo Wave server comes directly from the Google Wave Code page.

PyGoWave Server – The Headstart

I couldn’t wait until the guys at Google released their reference server implementation, so I decided to build my own in the meantime.

This implementation uses Django – a well-known python web framework – as its backend and is in a very early stage. Just as Google, I want to release it to the public as fast as possible.

In the end, this will eventually be a full-featured server implementation for easy use, extention and integration with your web servers and applications.

Note: All of the code is directly derived from Google’s published Wave API and protocol specification

You can (should before signing up, so you know what to expect) read their Architecutral Thoughts about the server here. But this is a great development. The Google Architecture Team has always stated that Google Wave success is based on and requires independent Wave servers. Having this so fast out of the gate is a great development. See the YouTube video below.

I signed up at the PyGo Wave Test Server and had quite an enjoyable experience playing with it. Not to mention, the time from sign up to playing with PyGo Wave took approximately 5 mins. All of the gadgets currently used in Google Wave are available to play with. It really is worth trying out while your waiting. You definetly get the Wave experience and you get to play with the Gadgets.

UPDATE: 2009-09-05

The PyGo Wave Server has been updated here is there updated Blog post (actually dated 2009-09-02, I’m a little behind) titled:

New and Improved

Ok here we go, since yesterday our latest “major” release is live, which is Version 0.3. I think p2k managed to implement all those features we descriped in our Roadmap .

The coolest new thing is definitely collaborative editing within waves. It’s now possible to write stuff within a wave and edit it collaborative with your fellow wavers.

And we did some improvements under the hood. As you can see we changed our URL to http://www.pygowave.net , you will be redirected to it, and all this stuff is now hosted on a seperated v-server just for pygowave itself. So only pygowave is going down if something breaks and not our whole server.

Furthermore PyGoWave is under https://www.pygowave.net available with SSL encryption. The SSL certificate itself was created by us and is not trusted, due to the fact that we do not have the money to buy a trusted one. Nevertheless its better than nothing =)

And last but not least we are now on ohloh, which is kind of an Socialnetwork for Programmers and OpenSourceSoftware. You can get to our project page here. Feel free to add us to your “I use this” list.

Keep up the great work guys! Visit the PyGo Blog Page and subscribe to their RSS to make sure you get the latest updates.

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I mentioned in a post yesterday titled “Industries Discussing How Google Wave Will Effect Sectors“, that in the weeks and months ahead we will see more and more industry sectors starting to talk about how Google Wave could be used in their particular sector. In the post yesterday I referenced a blog by Robert Cole titled “How Google Can Help Facilitate Travel Inspiration.” This obviously focused on the travel industry and gave a couple of examples of how Google Wave could be used to help folks working in that field.

Today I came across two new pieces. One by Mark Senak, who has a blog titled “Eye on the FDA“. His piece on Google Wave is called “Google Wave, Part 2 – What Pharma Should Be Thinking About“. This title, of course, indicates that there was probably a Part 1 to that story, and there is, and you can read it and all his posts at his blog. However, I was interested in Part 2 to the story because he gave some particular examples of how Google Wave could be used. They were:

Clinical Trial Recruitment Waves – It is a perennial problem for pharmaceutical companies to get a good balance of patients involved in clinical trials, particularly minorities.

REMS Support – Today when the FDA considers a particular risk to the use of a drug, they can require a REMS program – Risk Evaluation Management Strategy which encompasses the same tools as when the program was referred to as RiskMAPs or Risk Management Plans.

He goes into great detail on these examples in his blog and I encourage all to give it a read. I find it very interesting and encouraging that folks can immediately list concrete examples of how Google Wave can be implemented in there field to address long standing problem areas.

The second example I came across was a YouTube video with Stephannie Hannon (Program Manger for Google Wave) where she address how Google Wave could provide opportunities in the journalistic industry. What is neat about his video is that she is being asked questions by the journalist about how Google Wave can help them (journalists) with this or that problem. You can hear his excitement with the answers she provides.

Stay tuned, as I said yesterday, many more industries will start looking very seriously at what problems Google Wave will solve for them. My hunch is that they won’t have to think very hard to come up with quite a few.

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Google held a Google Wave Federation Day last month. Below is some videos that Google made during the conference and released today.

First is the Introduction

Second is the Architecture Overview

Third is the API Overview (including API roadmap)

Lastly, as a bonus they included a Google Wave Hackathon

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