In August, Google announced that Wave would no longer be developed as a standalone product, but that the Wave technology would survive in other products. Today, I am happy announce the launch of Google Shared Spaces in Google Labs as one of those off-s…
As we announced back in August, we are not continuing active development of Google Wave as a stand-alone product, but have been working hard on the open source Wave in a box project and on making waves accessible through Google Docs.We wanted to let yo…
We recently made it possible to export a single wave as a Zip file. Now, you can now also select up to 10 waves in your search panel and download them all together as a set of PDFs.We hope this feature proves a useful way of saving the information that…
Today we posted an update about our plans for Wave open source code and the federation protocol on our Google Wave Developer blog. The post includes a description of our planned code contributions over the coming months as well as resources for develop…
Some of you may have seen a post on the official Google blog several weeks ago about some changes to the Wave project, and we wanted to let you know that since then we’ve been hard at work figuring out all the details of the next steps. We’re looking a…
Over the last few months, I’ve seen a surprising number of time-related extensions popping up in our gallery – timers, stopwatches, countdowns, and the like. I think it’s because 1) many people use Wave to interact with folks from different timezones, and 2) many people use Wave during meetings… and many people don’t like meetings to go over time. 
Whatever the reasons may be, it’s a good thing for all of us, as these extensions come in handy in a variety of situations.
For example, the Remaining Time gadget is a favorite of mine. Its simple interface lets you specify an event name and an event time, and then it countdowns to that time.
We first used this gadget in the Google I/O 2010 conference session waves to show the countdown until the start of the talk. We did this because many developers were eager to watch the live notes for a session from afar, but they couldn’t easily convert from the San Francisco time listed into their own local time. By including a countdown, they could look at the remaining time and instantly know when to return to the wave.
More recently, in our local Google DevFest AU conference, I used the gadget to let speakers know how much time they have left to present. I set up a laptop in front of the speakers, created a wave with the gadget in it,and set it to countdown until the end of their talk. By using a wave instead of a desktop app, I could modify the wave from my comfortable seat in the back if I wanted to give them more time or send them a message.
Besides the “remaining time” gadget, you might also check out these time-related extensions:
Posted by Pamela Fox, Developer Relations, Google Wave Team
Today on the Google Enterprise blog, we announced that we’re beginning to roll out user policy management, which will allow Google Apps Premier and Education Edition customers to customize which users in their domains have access to each application in…
Just before the December holidays, a few Google Wave team members were playing foosball and decided we needed to do something fun together. Since Australia is a bit warm that time of year, we figured why not go to Antarctica? Time was short, so we had to get our plan together quickly. From using Wave at work, we had found that it is great for coordinating with small groups of people, so naturally, we decided to use it to plan our trip. We needed to find a cruise, decide on a date, figure out who wanted to go, work out cabin arrangements, get some flights, equipment, camera gear, and try not to get seasick. All in just in three weeks!
First, we had to decide which cruise to take, so we started a planning wave. Greg began by itemising upcoming cruises from a couple of potential operators, listing out dates, routes, and activities. Many of us were keen to kayak in the icy Antarctic waters, so we eventually settled on an eleven-day cruise with a provider from Canada.
Next, we managed the tricky task of choosing sleeping arrangements with a poll gadget in our planning wave. Each person indicated their cabin type preferences, and luckily, a single arrangement fell out of those choices. You can see our votes in the wave (try ‘Playback’ to see how the discussion evolved).
Then we began the ever-popular tasks of booking flights and accomodation and sorting out what to bring. We decided to divide up the responsibility: Narelle and Alex researched flights, Pat called Argentinian hotels, and Jan looked into the administrivia of visas, immunisations, and equipment (cameras!). Greg … supervised.
Whenever someone found new information, he or she summarised it in our wave and we discussed the options right there, as a group. Within a day or two our arrangements were complete, and earlier discussions in the wave were replaced with final information such as flight numbers, booking numbers and costs.
A great advantage of planning everything in Google Wave is that the wave always presents a definitive view of the latest information and decisions. It didn’t matter if some people missed parts of the discussion, because they could use playback to easily catch up with the decisions or see how the discussion evolved. Once a decision was made, we deleted the discussion and replaced it with the final plan. This meant the wave only displayed the most up-to-date, important information.
If we hadn’t used Google Wave, we might have been able to pull the trip together in time, but we’re not sure we would have still liked eachother enough to actually enjoy our time trapped on a boat together. Wave helped us pull all our information together into one place, make decisions quickly, and have a record of those decisions for when someone changed their mind. So the next time you want to get out and explore the world with a few friends, (or even colleagues!), give Wave a try.
You can check out some of our photos from the trip. Oh, and we figured as long we were standing on the southernmost continent, we should film Dr. Wave in his unnatural habitat. In fact this was an excuse to put him on the edge of a cliff and throw snowballs at him. Enjoy!
And here’s a re-enactment of the wave we used to plan the trip:
Posted by Alex, Jan, Pat, Narelle and Greg, Google Wave Team
Over the course of the last week, we held 5 days of mini-conferences on different Google developer technologies in the Google Sydney office. Since some developers couldn’t get time off work (or life :)) to come to the event in person, I wanted to make …
In Google Wave, waves from which all participants have been removed are wiped from Google’s servers permanently.To be more specific: When you are removed from a wave that you have seen before, whether you remove yourself or someone else removes you, yo…
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Since our introductory blogpost about the extension gallery, we’ve been thrilled by all of the useful and interesting Google Wave extensions coming out of the developer community. With every enhancement we announce, developers find inventive ways to cr…