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Google Wave: Up and Running

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About This Book

This Book’s Target Audience A Few Words on the Look and Feel of Google Wave This Book’s Scope

Prerequisites Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us Acknowledgments

1. Introducing Google Wave

Introduction

The People Behind Google Wave Initial Reactions to Google Wave

So, What Exactly Is Google Wave?

Waves, Wavelets, and Blips, Oh My!

Waves Wavelets Blips Participants Documents

Google Wave Incorporates Several Web Technologies

Email IM Wiki Online documents Gadgets

Communication and Collaboration Inside the Browser

Hanging 10 in your browser What about riding the wave outside of your browser?

The Google Wave APIs

Extensions Embedded waves

The Google Wave Federation Protocol

Why It’s Likely That People Will Use Google Wave

Ease of Use Speed Real-Time Gratification Functionality Extensibility Integration with Third-Party Services and Platforms Safety in Numbers

Reading the Tea Leaves: What’s Next for Google Wave

Will Email or IM Be Replaced? Google Wave and Social Networks Leveraging Other Google Applications and Platforms Could Google Wave Be a Fad?

Sample Use Case: Using Google Wave for an International Sales Team

2. Fundamentals of Communication and Collaboration in Google Wave

Conversations Are Integral to Google Wave

Threaded Conversations Beyond Typical Threaded Conversations Hey! We’re Creating a Document Public, Private, and Shared Conversations Replaying Conversations

Enhanced Communication and Collaboration

Media Attachments Gadgets Robots Search

Sample Use Case: Using Google Wave to Plan a Wedding

3. Riding Waves

Let’s Get Ready to Surf

The Google Wave Client A Few Words on the Occasional Wipeout

Working with the Google Wave Client

The Navigation Pane

Predefined folders (aka, standard folders) Custom searches Custom folders

The Contacts Pane Your Inbox The Conversation Pane

Interacting with Other Participants

There Is No “Reply All” Keeping Things Private

Managing Your Inbox

Searches and Folders Archiving Following What About Spam?

Riding Your First Wave

Let’s Get This Party Started Wavelets and Blips Adding Extensions to the Mix

Robots Gadgets Extension settings

Sample Use Case: A Virtual Conference in Google Wave

4. Riding Bigger Waves

Paddling Farther Out into the Big Blue

Throwing Some Media into the Mix

Images Movies Attachments

Groups Keyboard Shortcuts

Inbox pane Conversation pane Editing and formatting blips

Searches

Keywords Status Participants Groups Dates Folders Attachments Tags Gadgets Expressions Sample searches

To Edit or Not to Edit? Waves with Lots of Blips and Participants

Getting the Most Out of Extensions

Robots

Bloggy Cody Buddy as a Service

Gadgets

Checky the checklist gadget Napkin gadget Raffly gadget

Sample Use Case: Running a Soccer League in Google Wave

5. Developing with the Google Wave API

Key Concepts

Some Things You Should Know Google Wave Extension Design Principles

Make it “Wave-y” Make it easy to use Make it easy to install Make it look good Make it useful—or fun!

A Few Words on Your Development Environment

Writing code Working with images Dueling banjos…er, I mean browsers

General Architecture

Robots API Gadgets API Wave Embed API Extension Installers

The extension manifest Hooks Actions Extension installers in action

The Google Wave Developer Sandbox Quick! Let’s Code a Robot!

Set Up the App Engine Application The Oracle Bot Code

Importing client libraries and a module The main function The event handler functions A relevant avatar

Deploy the Robot to App Engine

The robot in action

Quick! Let’s Code a Gadget!

The Gadget File

The gadget preferences The gadget HTML elements The gadget JavaScript

Making the Gadget Accessible on the Web The Gadget in Action

Quick! Let’s Create an Extension Installer!

The Extension Installer Manifest The Extension Icon The Extension Installer in Action

Quick! Let’s Embed a Wave!

Setting Up the Target Environment A Dash of HTML and JavaScript

The web page

The Embedded Wave in Action

Sample Use Case: Running an IT Help Desk in Google Wave

6. Diving into Extensions: Robots API

Let’s Code a Few Robots

Geo Bot: A Geosemantic Analysis Robot

The Geo Bot code

Recipe Bot: A Recipe-Fetching Robot

The Recipe Bot code

General Structure of a Robot

Client Libraries

Python client library Java client library

Capabilities Giving Your Robot Some Personality

Events and Operations

An “Active” API

Registering a robot to use the active API

Events Operations

Class wavelet Class blip Class BlipRefs Class robot Class element

Event Filtering Making External Information Available Through Proxying-for Context Robot Types

Content Assist Data Synchronization Multiwave Applications Conversational

The App Engine Tango

Locals Are Not Welcome (for Now): Testing in the Cloud Logs and Debugging

Sample Use Case: Lesson Planning for Educators

7. Diving into Extensions: Gadgets API

Let’s Code a Few Gadgets

Election Gadget: Soliciting Group Participation

The Election Gadget code

Twitterini: A Twitter Utility Gadget

The Twitterini gadget

Getting the Gadgets into Extension Installers

Google Wave Gadgets API Fundamentals

Developing Wave-Aware Gadgets Anatomy of a Google Wave Gadget

XML HTML JavaScript

Working with Gadget State

Methods

Static Methods

Classes

Participant

Constructor Methods

State

Constructor Methods

Callback

Constructor Method

Constants Roles: Making Gadgets Social

Gadget Design

Programming Logic

Do not attempt to access objects during initialization Most of the logic should be inside of callbacks Changes in user interface elements should trigger changes to state

Designing for the Google Wave Client

Anecdotal Use Case: Using Google Wave for a Live Design Document

8. Diving into Extensions: Wave Embed API

Let’s Embed a Few Waves

Enabling the Google Wave Toolbar in an Embedded Wave

Code for the Google Wave toolbar in an embedded wave

Switching Embedded Waves and Adding a Participant

Code for switching embedded waves and adding a participant

Embed Bot: Gadgetizing the Google Wave Embed API

Embed Bot: The robot code Embed Bot: The gadget XML code Embed Bot: The gadget JavaScript code Embed Bot: The embedded wave page code

Wave Embed API Fundamentals

Embedding Waves Customizing Embedded Waves Participant Interaction

Classes

WavePanel

Constructor Methods

UIConfig

Constructor Methods

OpenSocialWave

Constructor Methods

Anecdotal Use Case: Using Google Wave for Live Waving

9. Wave Federation and Additional Considerations

Google Wave Federation Protocol

In a Nutshell Interoperability The Game Changer: Operational Transformation Setting Up Your Own Wave Server

Toward a Google Wave Ecosystem Additional Resources

A. Sample Robots Code

Oracle Bot

Code

Geo Bot

Code

Recipe Bot

Code

B. Sample Gadgets Code

Wave Mood Gadget

Code

Election Gadget

Code

Twitterini Gadget

Code

C. Sample Wave Embed Code

Enabling the Google Wave Toolbar in an Embedded Wave

Code

Switching Embedded Waves and Adding a Participant

Code

Embed Bot: Gadgetizing the Google Wave Embed API

Code: app.yaml File Code: embed-bot.py File Code: embed-page.py File Code: embed-template.html File Code: embed-bot.js File Code: gadget.xml File Code: Extension Installer

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