Can you point me to some resources for adopting Wave into an organisation? I don’t have any coding experience beyond basic html but I’d really like to propose this to my company. Any info you can give would be greatly appreciated chrispey at gmail dot com

The advantages continue with being able to commit changes to any number of external entities thanks to the open source nature of XMPP and particularly the presence of Google Wave Gadgets. Gadgets will allow employees to update multiple mediums from one click. I can’t for what Gadgets comes out tomorrow!

With all this in mind, I think there’s no way Google Wave won’t pick up momentum as time goes on. When more Gadgets come along to show off what Wave can do, and more importantly, right now to create an accepted use for Wave I think companies won’t be able to afford not to embrace it.

I don’t have the data, and this is a guesstimate but I’m fairly confident to use another comparison which was that when Apple released the iPhone the initial response was good, but when people started making quality apps it really started to hurt the other brands out there..

Cheers, (sorry that was so long)

Repliers here and on other websites don’t seem to realize what’s possible with Wave. Hell, even I haven’t been able to fully understand where the limit is to what Wave can do. But basically it will be next way of communicating. I imagine it like this:

You have a business which runs it’s own wave server (much like most businesses run their own e-mail servers). On this wave server you do all the communication/collaboration stuff: you share documents (and write them up), do the messaging (like we used to do e-mail and IM), etc. This is much like Microsoft Exchange (which, btw, is usually selfhosted by companies – not run on Microsoft servers) and other Microsoft products like Sharepoint.

But where Exchange and Sharepoint stop at the border of an organization (due to propriety protocols, for instance), wave is as an open protocol as e-mail is: now you e-mail everyone (doesn’t matter whether they are inside or outside the organization), with Wave you will collaborate and communicate with everyone.

But it goes further: it will do all your internet-communication. Your communication on blogs and forums (like replying) will also be available in wave. Eventually wave will be your way to communicate to all kind of different services. And at some point it will probably replace a lot of the ‘older’ services like e-mail, IM and Twitter as well, just because wave can do this (and do this better).

A small example: e-mail (SMTP) was build on a basis of trust (like a lot of the old internet protocols), people never imagined it being abused like it is today (94% of all e-mail is spam). This was never imagined because the amount of spam in our snailmail is not as much; to bad that ‘they’ didn’t think that the Internet would be such a big thing these days and that sending e-mail is so easy a widely spread ;). Wave is developed with the knowledge we have today: we look at the internet in a much different way and it’s fully incorporated into our lives; spam will probably be a thing of the past.

Now don’t worry about Google going for world domination, this will all be released open source (all of it: the client, the server). People can even write up their own wave servers, as long as they use the protocol thought of by Google. This is the same as with e-mail. And yes, if you don’t communicate with users on Google’s own wave platform then Google will never know you’re even using wave (exactly the same as Google doesn’t know your e-mail address if you’ve never e-mailed to a Gmail user).

The eBayBot is a google wave robot and gadget that allows you to search products and auctions on ebay.com in a collaborative environment right from google wave.
We have posted some demo videos and install instructions at http://withwaves.com/ebay

For those of you interested you can check it out at http://amazon.withwaves.com , feedback is appreciated at http://withwaves.com/contact

I have a feeling growth of Wave will look very similar to that of Twitter, with it taking a while and a few ‘large’ (not necesarily celebrity) users before it goes mainstream.

http://sachendra.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/email-2-0-google-wave-solves-the-see-comments-inline-problem/