Why Wave Federation? Google Technical Lead & Architect David Wang Explains
Google Technical Lead and Architect David Wang speaks at eComm 2009 about building an open network around wave technology.
Google Wave is a product and wave is a technology, much like Gmail is a product and email is a technology. It was built using an open federation protocol to promote the use of waves and to ensure that users have a choice of wave providers.
Anyone can run their own wave server; the idea is to encourage organizations to build wave-like systems that will interoperate and discourage those that don't.
Wang describes what a wave is, gives a theoretical description of sharing waves and details of the Draft Federation Protocol Specification, which simply shows how to operate a wave server. It's just like running your own SMTP server and in this audio lecture, Wang demonstrates how.
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