Google Wave: Just another ripple or science... - Science Online London

This is something I'm really interested in. So are a bunch of twitterers, it seems. - Bob O'Hara

Looking forward to the live demo :D - Allyson Lister

Unicast = 1 message sent to many people. Wave is multicast - "gold" copy is always kept. - AJCann

Introduction by Chris Thorpe. Email is multicasts, Wave is unicasts: you send the same message to several people. - Martin Fenner

Jargon: "wavelets" & "blips". - AJCann

Robots are powerful tools to extend the functionality of Google Wave. - Martin Fenner

Waves can be embedded into other webpages, e.g. a blog. - Martin Fenner

Oops, some confusion over unicast and multicast immediately - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - AJCann

Gadgets change the functionality of a Wave. Gadgets are client-sie tools, Robots are server-side tools. - Martin Fenner

Data stored in wave, gadgets stored in blips. - AJCann

Cameron starts Wave live demo. - Martin Fenner

And now the fun begins... - Bob O'Hara

Hey Cameron, some of us author papers collaboratively on Google Docs! - AJCann

But they're just showing versioned instant messaging, right now. cool, but I would like to see more. :) - Allyson Lister

a Guardian robot was shown for searching the Guardian. - Allyson Lister

Can someone add me to the wave? username nuin - pn

And very nice: a Watexy robot for displaying latex figures - Allyson Lister

Sort of jealous - wish I could "wave" (is it a verb yet?) :) - Allyson Lister

Can someone as the cat herders what they think of Daniel MacArthur's tweet: "Google Wave "will make flame wars almost immediate..."? - Bob O'Hara

Seems to me that robots are the truly innovative aspect of wave from a users point of view (but beyond the authoring capabilities of mere mortals). - AJCann

Waves can store structured information in a transparent way. - Martin Fenner

Ian M suggests wave robots can tame APIs for mere mortals. - AJCann

Is wave a technology in search of a problem? Like all new tech, will need a "killer app" to take off. What is the killer app for wave? - AJCann

Demo of a few robots including Igor: http://blogs.nature.com/wp... - Martin Fenner

Hashtag consensus seems to be that wave is underwhelming... - AJCann

Cameron talks about using a Wave as a tool to design a laboratory workflow, where the Wave can be used with different datasets. - Martin Fenner

I think we just need to see more exciting apps, and not sure there's been enough time or people in the early testing to get that (yet), @AJCann. I remain hopeful... - Allyson Lister

Live collaboration might not be needed for writing a paper. It's just a byproduct of the version control mechanism. - Martin Fenner

Can someone ask how tech savvy one has to be to use Wave? - Bob O'Hara

Bob: not very tech savvy. The interface is just still a little bit klunky. - Martin Fenner

I asked there, let's see if someone answers. - pn

I know Martin has answered here ... - pn

A few people there are twittering and worrying about what they need to know. - Bob O'Hara

Ian Mulvany: if you submit a manuscript written as a Wave, you can track exactly who did what. - Martin Fenner

IMHO, it would be great for small collaboration efforts - pn

Bob: No one answered on the Wave, I don't know if it's over there - pn

Wave is different from FriendFeed, because it is conversations between a specific group of people. - Martin Fenner

In a way, but there are ways to find public conversations, and embedded waves on blogs/sites can open the discussion. - pn

It decentralizes the discussion, centralizing its repository. - pn

Why Cameron likes Wave: it solves many little problems that have bothered us for a long time. - Martin Fenner

Chris Thorpe: Google Wave is pushing data, so much smarter than pulling data in services such as Twitter. - Martin Fenner

If any presenter is listening, can you please play the video of the demo for the SL folks? they're asking nicely... - Allyson Lister

Disadvantage of Google Wave: it can't be used offline. Future versions will probably be able to do that (using Google Gears). - Martin Fenner

So I wonder if wave is the reason Apple are building those huge data centers... - AJCann

Paulo, can you add "If any presenter is listening, can you please play the video of the demo for the SL folks? they're asking nicely..." to the wave? - Daniel Mietchen

Thanks Bjoern - it came slightly too late. - Daniel Mietchen

Sorry - am reviewing a paper in parallel :-) - Björn Brembs

Blog post at: http://themindwobbles.wordpress.com/2009... - Allyson Lister

I'm excited about Wave - not for what it is, but for it's potential :-) - Björn Brembs

Will it review papers for you as well? - Bob O'Hara

Sorry, had to step out a little ... - pn

@bob: lol, I wish :-) But I could keep a wave open with questions to colleagues (or the authors if it was an open review). Beats email and chat and phone, in my eyes. - Björn Brembs

Waves could be used in the review process. It would also work for anonymous peer review, because parts of a Wave can be private discussions. - Martin Fenner

My guess it's neither (haven't used it), but a key aspect of our evolution to an event-driven web - Deepak Singh

I am WAY EXCITED about Google Wave!!!!!!! I want to play with it right now actually. - Arikia

code for the janey robot is: http://github.com/IanMulv... - Ian Mulvany

@Ian who is Janey? I've seen Igor... - Egon Willighagen

the important functions are OnBlipSubmitted and QueryJaneAPI. #solo09 - Ian Mulvany

Egon, demo robot that I put together for #solo09, it queries http://www.biosemantics.org/jane... - Ian Mulvany

I really liked this demo/session - thanks, panel. - Maxine

Thanks Maxine. I was afraid the session was to "geeky" for many in the audience. - Martin Fenner

Looking back I'm thinking that we may have fallen between the stools of trying to cater for both the excited geeks and those who had no idea what we were talking about. That and we clearly needed some flashier robots to get the wow factor up :-) - Cameron Neylon

Well I thought the robots were appropriate to the meeting's agenda. Really, it was a good session. I think you did have some exceptionally knowledgeable geek outliers in your audience (in reality and virtually). I certainly learned a lot from it and I am somewhere in the middle of your two extremes, Cameron ;-) - Maxine