Comments on: The Secret Sauce Behind Google Wave

By: Google Chrome, Microsoft Gazelle and the cloud-oriented OS

Google Chrome, Microsoft Gazelle and the cloud-oriented OS — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:45:34 +0000

[...] ← The Secret Sauce Behind Google Wave [...]

By: More details about Google Wave « Cjed Audio blog

More details about Google Wave « Cjed Audio blog — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:49:11 +0000

[...] key foundation technologies to Google Wave are (see also details in original article The Secret Sauce Behind Google Wave) : – GWT Ajax library, which not only powers complex interactions on a browser, but also provides a [...]

By: Ray Valdes

Ray Valdes — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:14:26 +0000

David S, thanks for the info.

All: I have updated this post to correct the small but important typo pointed out by Shantanu earlier (”American-American” –> “African-American”). Also changed the size of the first image slightly for better visibility.

By: Analysts are cynics – a dead idea « SageCircle Blog

Analysts are cynics – a dead idea « SageCircle Blog — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:06:41 +0000

[...] Back Story: It is common for many vendor executives to think of industry analysts as cynical. And at first glance, Gartner analyst Ray Valdez (bio, blog, Twitter) would seem to confirm this perception by characterizing his reaction to a vendor’s announcement as cynicism in his blog post The Secret Sauce Behind Google Wave. [...]

By: David S.

David S. — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:25:15 +0000

A minor correction: the URL for the our CoWord Online Demo can found here:
http://cooffice.ntu.edu.sg/coword/.

For those interested, the CoWord Microsoft Research talk can be found here:
http://cooffice.ntu.edu.sg/coword/vods/lecture.htm

By: Espace de François » Blog Archive » Google Wave en quelques mots

Espace de François » Blog Archive » Google Wave en quelques mots — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:59:14 +0000

[...] A titre d’illustration, le fameux cabinet Gartner y a déjà consacré deux posts dont un sur les bases algorithmiques de Google Wave (notamment l’OT, ou Operational Transformation, la théorie à la base de la gestion des [...]

By: David S.

David S. — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:52:25 +0000

Hey Ray. As a researcher working on OT, I’m very intrigued by the tech community’s taking a keen interest in this technology after the Wave splash. You may find interesting this recent Google Tech talk on CoWord and OT at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84zqbXUQIHc. It gives a concise and tangible introduction to the technology and demos its usage in the most recent version of CoWord.

By: Brian K Seitz

Brian K Seitz — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:20:02 +0000

The interesting thing is the ability to track, replay and edit structures in a graphical UI. Within the Product Structure domain, STEP Tools, a small company working in Product Definition Data had created a similar set of function, but without the graphical UI.

The ability to manage structure whether temporial or other relationships is a very powerful capability, one that has yet to be exploited very well. hether Google can captialize on this advancement remains to be seen.

By: Knowtu » links for 2009-06-01

Knowtu » links for 2009-06-01 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:04:52 +0000

[...] The Secret Sauce Behind Google Wave – operational transformation theory (tags: google algorithms) [...]

By: Ray Valdes

Ray Valdes — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:31:34 +0000

Shantanu, thanks for your comment (and for the correction!)

Ludovic, thanks for the info. I will seek out XWiki at JavaOne this week.