Highlights from the Google I/O Wave Developer Sandbox
Thursday, June 17, 2010 | 5:42 PM
Labels: Wave Developer Blog
We recently celebrated Google Wave's 1st Birthday and announced several API and protocol updates at Google I/O. Along with that we invited 16 developer groups to showcase their Wave extensions and integrations as part of the Google Wave Developer Sandbox. We've been amazed at the many extensions and product integrations that developers have built eversince we launched Wave and we wanted to share with the public what were showcased at I/O:
Extensions:
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Columbus Internet showcased Travel WithMe and Hostel WithMe, their useful trip planning extensions for Wave.
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ProcessWave showcased a collaborative diagram editor that supports software and business process modeling with UML, BPMN and EPC.
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Timebridge showcased a web conferencing gadget and a meeting planner gadget.
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UnaWave demoed a project and task management extension.
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WithWaves demoed the Browse eBay and Browse Amazon extensions that enable collaborative shopping.
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Wave.to showcased a lightweight wave client for the Android platform.
- CS Odessa demoed their brainstorming and mind maping extension.
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Caseish showcased their collaborative case management tool.
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6Rounds showcased their interactive video conferencing gadget.
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Prezi demoed their collaborative presentation editor.
- Twilio demoed their phone conferencing robot
Product Integrations:
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Salesforce demoed their wave integration inside Chatter, their collaborative product, and introduced the Force.com Toolkit for Google Wave.
- Oracle demoed their wave integration inside their CRM On Demand product.
Federation:
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SAP demoed their new StreamWork product built with on the wave federation protocol.
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ProcessOne demoed their WaveOne XMPP server built with the wave federation protocol.
- Novell showcased Pulse, their collaborative product built with the wave federation protocol.
To see videos of many of the above extensions in action and read more about them, check out our featured extension page. We hope these extensions and product integrations will inspire you to build more things on Google Wave. As always, we love to hear from developers. If you have feedback on our APIs or want to build extensions, read our guide and drop us a line in the Wave APIs forum. If you're interested in the Wave Protocol, check out http://www.waveprotocol.org and join the Wave Protocol discussion forum.