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Messaging & Collaboration: Nine Google Wave Prototypes, Extensions Include SAP, Salesforce.com Apps


Google Wave rolled out to 100,000 more users Sept. 30 as part of an extended preview. With this new rollout come Google prototypes including technology from SAP, Salesforce.com and MediaWiki that use the real-time collaboration platform in enterprise application scenarios. Google also unveiled extensions from British Telecom's Ribbit and AccuWeather, among others, that augment Google Wave, which Google has open-sourced. Join eWEEK on this tour of the experiments and applications that integrate with Google Wave.
 
  • Nine Google Wave Prototypes, Extensions Include SAP, Salesforce.com Apps
    by Clint Boulton
  • SAP Gravity
    From SAP Research, Gravity is an application prototype that lets users whip up business process models on the fly. Users' contributions to the model are shadowed in different colors.
  • Salesforce.com in Wave
    Salesforce.com's extension shows how a mobile phone customer can start a Wave with a support robot. The robot creates a tracking record and pulls help content into the Wave based on the customer's comments.
  • MediaWiki in Wave
    MediaWiki Wave is used to resolve editing conflicts.
  • Ribbit Helps Wave Talk
    Easily the most useful Wave extension yet, Ribbit enables users to add voice conferencing to the Wave platform.
  • 6rounds Video Conferencing
    6rounds brings video conferencing to Google Wave.
  • Lonely Planet Wave
    Lonely Planet Trippy lets users plan trips in Wave.
  • AccuWeather Wave
    As you'd guess—a weather gadget in Wave from AccuWeather.
  • Google Maps in Wave
    A Google Maps gadget lets users create a map with their friends in Wave. Surprised? Don't be. Wave co-creators Lars and Jens Rasmussen created Google Maps in 2004.
  • LabPixies Wave
    LabPixies lets users do Sudoku puzzles together in Wave.
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