About Google Wave 101

[Rick Moynihan]

If you're reading this, welcome to our Google Group, Dundee Google
Wave 101.
The idea behind this group is to introduce and explore ideas related
to Google's new communication and collaboration technology, Google
Wave.

If you've not yet heard about Google Wave, then the best explanation
is probably the developer preview of Google Wave; recently announced
at Google I/O http://wave.google.com/

So what's so exciting about Wave?

Well, it's essentially an open protocol, built on top of Jabber/XMPP
and tightly integrated with the web that intelligently unifies a
number of communication styles. Wave fuses both realtime instant
messaging capabilities with a delayed, less interactive e-mail style
of communication (for when participants are off-line) with the notion
of a structured shared conversation; similar perhaps to a wiki.

So this group is for people in or around Dundee who are interested in
wave and
the future Internet it will support. Knowledge of wave is currently
limited primarily to the protocol specs and a handful of API's...
(Google will soon open source a reference implementation for their
wave server and client.). This group hopes to improve our collective
understanding of wave, by providing community support. We intend to
organise a meeting in
Dundee as soon as possible to give participants of this group a chance
to discuss Wave in person.

Until then please feel free to share your thoughts on wave, it's
protocols, API's and any wave related resources you think we might
find insightful.

Here are some links of mine on Wave:

http://delicious.com/InkyHarmonics/google+wave

R.

p.s. Yes, the groups name really is a pun on our local radio station
(Wave 102) and that we aim to provide and share introductory resources
on Google Wave in the same way a Computer Science 101 course might.