[mdlug] Google Wave invites

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 10:28 +0100, Rich Elswick wrote:
> of course you can also use it as a application framework to run multiple
> users through a wave via the GWT extensions....
> so it s is so much more than just....

Sure, although I don't give the credit to Google in this case;  the
power of wave, and whatever will supersede wave, is XMPP.  XMPP is a
lovely platform for application development,  publish-subscribe solves a
long list of issues posed by networked applications [and even some local
ones].

> I expect there to be some killer uses for it, which are yet to be thought of
> and used...

Agree.

> for example, what really made Facebook was when companies started building
> applicaitons for it under the Facebook framework.  Think Mafia Wars.
>  Companies like Zynga have made a major business out of it and expect others
> will as well under Wave.