PhilFreo.com » Google Wave http://philfreo.com/blog The portfolio and blog of Phil Freo, on web design, development, and entrepreneurship. Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:33:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Google I/O Keynote 2009, day 2 http://philfreo.com/blog/google-io-keynote-2009-day-2/ http://philfreo.com/blog/google-io-keynote-2009-day-2/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 18:26:12 +0000 Phil Freo http://philfreo.com/blog/?p=86 Google I/O 2009 Keynote, Day 2
4/28/2009

Google Wave - Product, Platform, and Protocol

  • Attempt to answer “what would email look like if it was developed today”
  • Combines Gmail, Translation, collaboration via Google Docs, Photos, etc., all in one
  • Because it is completely open, companies can host their own instances of Wave and Google never has to see the data – yet the users of separate platforms can still communicate with each other!

TechCrunch coverage
Google Wave
Google Wave APIs
Google Wave Protocols

I’m looking forward to WordCamp this weekend.  I’m curious to see if there will be any WordPress / Google Wave integration already.  Being able to have blog comments automatically pushed to users who aren’t actually looking at your blog would be a huge win.  If there’s no WordPress integration project already, I may just start one.

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I’m still playing with them both but the first thing I realized was that they would have to do better than use the 16×16 favicons.  I was able to extract the official high resolution Google icons from the Google Gears desktop shortcuts for GMail and GCal, so they are attached.  These will work for Fluid.  For Prism, you’ll have to use the PNGs attached.

Later I found Chris Ivarson’s page with some great icons, but my first couple Google searches didn’t lead me there, and he doesn’t have the standard icons that come from Google.

Edit 1: By the way, I have chosen Fluid because its icon shows me my number of unread messages so I can keep it hidden when I don’t have new mail… very helpful.

Edit 2: By popular request, I just added a Fluid icon for Google Wave also

Attachments: gcal.icns gmail.icns google_wave.icns

gcal.png gmail.pnggoogle wave fluid prism icon

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