Monday, May 3, 2010

Google Wave: a new API to share their waves outside

Google has updated its service Wave. Heralded as the gravedigger of the email to its release, Google is a little wave in limbo since, for lack of use or users connected. At Google, we believe that just seems to propose new uses for it off again.

The development team has proposed a new programming interface (API) to allow the display of "waves" ("Waves," the term used for a thread within the application) public, even to non service-users. Read only, and these waves can be broadcast on another site, for example, using Wave Element .

"Before this launch," says Google, "the developers could integrate the waves on their sites, but the visitors could not see them unless they had a Google Account Wave, they were connected, and if they had Access to this particular wave. "It is now past, since the update can make visible the waves recorded in the group public@a.gwave.com to any visitor, registered or not, connected or not .

The new API also provides optional parameters, such as the ability to display the participants in a wave in the header, or include the Google toolbar Wave. Google has made available a tutorial for the API.

Sign for Google, uses are the crux of the problem, the giant cracks of a list of ideas for possible uses. Live-blogging, posting invitations with the ability to immediately respond by checking a box on a site, dissemination of materials easy to update, dissemination of information on several sites with a single wave, etc..

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