Semantic Dreamer

This is truly amazingly hot stuff! … and – again – incredibly well engineered!! Honestly, I can’t wait to get my hands on Google Wave!

Actually I should say: Weaving and Surfing Waves! :-)

Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Watch the demo video below, sign up for updates and learn more about how to develop with Google Wave.
(Source: Google Wave Preview)

Resources

• Google Wave Preview
• waveprotocol.org – the homepage for the Google Wave Federation Protocol
• Google Wave API

Update: Meanwhile I managed to “play” at least a little bit with the Wave Sandbox – using the 2nd test account of a generous colleague (thx M.!) – while still waiting for my Wave Developer Account request to be processed.
Pretty impressed by the Wave UI but also wondering what the transformation management strategy of Google will look like when Wave hits the average users, as Wave clearly requires quite some rethinking…

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Yesterday I recieved my account upgrade to Google App Engine for Java:

“Welcome to an early look at Google App Engine for Java!“

So far I did only have a quick look at the new version, mainly playing around with the starter project.

But what is already clear: the Google engineering team did an awesome job to provide developers with a tool, read Google Plugin for Eclipse supported development workflow to get started as well as to boost the overall application development cycle in total (code, test, debug, deploy). And even more in regard to GWT application development…

Pretty cool!

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Tour de Flex is a Aodbe AIR-based desktop application for exploring Flex capabilities and resources, including the core Flex components, Adobe AIR and data integration, as well as a variety of third-party components, effects, skins, and more.

Tour de Flex has three primary purposes:

• Provide non-Flex developers with a good overview of what is possible in Flex in a “look and see” environment
• Provide Flex developers with an illustrated reference tool
• Provide commercial and non-commercial Flex developers a place to showcase their work

Tour de Flex includes over 200 runnable samples, each with source code, links to documentation, and other details. Topics include the Flex Core Components, Flex Data Access, AIR Desktop Capabilities, Cloud APIs, Data Visualization, Mapping, and a growing collection of custom components, effects, skins, etc.

In case you’re interested you can install the application with the following badge:

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Couldn’t agree more to the essence of the following great metaphor that I stumbled upon while reading the post Deconstructing Rich Internet Applications by Matthew Gertner:

“Think of the web, of the Internet itself, as water. Proprietary platforms based on the web are ice cubes. They can, for a time, suspend themselves above the web at large. But over time, they only ever melt into the water. And maybe they make it better when they do.“

(Via : Anil Dash: Blackbird, Rainman, Facebook and the Watery Web.)

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