Introduction and Demonstration of Google Wave Zhenhua Guo

Google Wave An online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. How many wave systems out there? Many Public: https://wave.google.com (username@gmail.com) Sandbox: https://wavesandbox.com (username@wavesandbox.com) Waves bound to Google Apps: Suppose domain is infomall.org http://wave.google.com/a/infomall.org (username@infomall.org)

Google Apps A service from Google for using custom domain names with several Google products including Gmail, Calendar, Talk, Docs, Wave, etc. Google hosts services and you provide a domain name Bind infomall.org to Google Apps Email: mail.google.com/a/infomall.org username@infomall.org Wave: wave.google.com/a/infomall.org Docs: docs.google.com/a/infomall.org

Wave UI

Panels Navigation Contact Wave list Wave content

Wave A threaded discussion Follow/Unfollow Move/Trash Mark as read/unread Tag Create new wave Add/remove participants Search

Search Wave creator:name participant:name group:name Keyword about:keyword title:keyword caption:keyword State is:read is:unread is:filed is:followed Misc. tag:tagname has:link has:gadget http://www.google.com/support/wave/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=162900

Wave content Rich text Color Font Hyperlink Attachment Google Gadget Image

Wave Extensions Robot Gadget Robots are applications which can be added to waves as wave participants. Automate tasks Gadget a shared program which runs within the wave, and to which all participants have access. Improve richness spell checking,

Robot Gadget Runs on application servers (currently AppEngine) and interacts with the wave over a protocol. Runs within the wave client itself. Robots may modify a wave and perform the same operations as a human participant. Gadgets are not able to modify a wave, and have limited visibility into the wave. Each robot may instantiate at most one instance per wave. Each gadget may have multiple instances per wave, one for each participant interacting with the gadget. Robots can modify a gadget. Gadgets have no way to know that a robot exists, and thus are not able to modify a robot.

Robots A robot can Deployment Account of robots read the contents of a wave in which it participates, modify the wave's contents add or remove participants create new messages and new waves …… Deployment Google App Engine Account of robots spellchecker@appspot.com wordcounter@appspot.com Then add a robot to a wave like adding any other participant

Emaily Add emaily-wave@appspot.com to your contact list Add the robot to a wavelet Connection of Wave and Email to wave from mail to mail inbox from wave Your friend  Mail  Wave  You Your friend  Mail  Wave  You Others send an email to waveid+googlewave.com@emaily-wave.appspotmail.com Read it inside Google Wave as a new wave

Tweety-wave Add tweety-wave@appspot.com Read/update tweets without going to twitter.com

Other robots elizarobot Igor Chatbot Ask some stupid questions elizarobot@appspot.com Igor a Google Wave robot to manage your references Whe you type “blah blah blah (cite x) blah” Igor will notice the (cite x), connect to PubMed(or other reference db), search for articles where the title, authors or journal contain x and then pull in the relevant citation. http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2009/07/igor_a_google_wave_robot_to_ma.html candidate genes include NRG1 (cite from connotea euanadie)(cite schizophrenia neuregulin) and (cite from pubmed)DISC1 (cite PDE4B evans schizophrenia)

Possible research robots License robot Reference management Writing papers collaboratively Workflow composition

Resources Infomall.org Wave https://wave.google.com/a/infomall.org/ Infmall.org control panel https://www.google.com/a/infomall.org