Future of Google Wave in New API Competition?
By lorelle, posted March 9, 2010 at 2:03 pm | No Comments »
Mashable announced the Mashable-Google Wave API Challenge to expand upon the Google Wave API’s new extension abilities for integration. The competition begins March 8, 2010 and submissions are open until April 9, with public voiting beginning on the 20 top submissions on April 12, and winners announced April 21.
Google Wave is the social media equivalent of a document sharing, allowing collaborative communication and multimedia sharing, with a strong focus on documentation.
Google Wave was greeted with a lot of excitement, but after a few people got bored with watching others type, only a few found consistent value. However, linking Google Wave with third-party apps might revive the interest again.
What do you want Google Wave to do? Is what it does enough for you or do you need more? What kinds of things would you like to see people submit to the competition?
The idea of a Google Wave-to-WordPress blog Plugin is intriguing. The ability to update a “published Wave” on your blog for permanance as well as possible public or group consumption would be invaluable to transparency issues for individuals, groups and associations, and possibly businesses.
I’d love to see notifications via email, Twitter, Facebook, and social notification services of updates to Waves I’m involved with, so those would be interesting applications for third-party integration, but what else?
What would you like to see Google Wave become and where would you like to see it grow with the new Google Wave API?
Thanks for posting about the contest!
Just wanted to let you know that we released email notifications a few weeks ago – check the Google Wave blog for more details.
Yes, it would be very cool to see a tight WordPress integration of Wave. I think people would love to draft their blog posts in Wave, and then export them out to WordPress.