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5 Ways to Use Google Wave for Business
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Ambiguity Keeps Google's Future in China Murky
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Ambiguity Keeps Google's Future in China Murky
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Hi! I’m Anna Rose Kerr, a Kiwi and Google Wave user living in Sydney. Coming from a background in creative advertising, I see a lot of potential for Wave to make everyday tasks more efficient and enjoyable. Now, I want to share one of my ideas for how developers can make my own life easier.
Before I moved in with my boyfriend, I had no idea that making dinner could be such a complex problem. My normal approach of “eat whatever I feel like when I get hungry” does not compute with him, and thus we spend hours each day discussing what is for dinner that night. We have to factor in what’s in the fridge that needs to be consumed, seasonal product, and which animal he currently feels sympathetic towards and won’t eat. It often gets too complicated and we end up eating take-aways.
An ideal solution would be a cookbook extension that could do the math and come up with a recipe given all these variables, and I call that solution “Recipeasy.” This extension would sit on a wave between you and your dinner guests, suggesting recipes using the ingredients you have and the foods you all like to eat.
First, the extension could insert a gadget that let users add lists of food items which they “have”, “would like” or “would not like”. Other users can click on these items to confirm they are a good choice or delete them from a list. The most popular ingredients have the greatest influence on the generated recipe suggestions. The extension could also include a robot that would scan the conversation for food items, and pull those out and insert them into the gadget. It would work off phrases such as “I can bring some…” or “yuck I don’t like…” to place the various ingredients discussed into the right lists.
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Recipeasy would automatically produce 3-5 of the top recipes based on your selections. Clicking on a recipe name within the gadget would open the recipe’s own Wave. Here, you might find suggestions and tips from other Wavers who have already tried the recipe and you can add your own review. These “Recipeasy” waves form your own virtual cookbook, which would be easily accessible by searching “with:recipeasy”.
There are some obvious businesses to partner with when making this extension — like supermarket chains which could offer to deliver the extra food needed to complete a recipe. Recipe sites or chefs could add to the Recipeasy database from their own repertoire and pull the Waver’s comments back onto their site.
An extension like Recipeasy would make cooking so much easier by using food you already have (or getting what you don’t have delivered) and taking the effort out of agreeing on a meal. While cooking may not appeal to you directly, just think — this could be the way you get your mother using Google Wave!
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Hi! I’m Anna Rose Kerr, a Kiwi and Google Wave user living in Sydney. Coming from a background in creative advertising, I see a lot of potential for Wave to make everyday tasks more efficient and enjoyable. Now, I want to share one of my ideas for how developers can make my own life easier.
Before I moved in with my boyfriend, I had no idea that making dinner could be such a complex problem. My normal approach of “eat whatever I feel like when I get hungry” does not compute with him, and thus we spend hours each day discussing what is for dinner that night. We have to factor in what’s in the fridge that needs to be consumed, seasonal product, and which animal he currently feels sympathetic towards and won’t eat. It often gets too complicated and we end up eating take-aways.
An ideal solution would be a cookbook extension that could do the math and come up with a recipe given all these variables, and I call that solution “Recipeasy.” This extension would sit on a wave between you and your dinner guests, suggesting recipes using the ingredients you have and the foods you all like to eat.
First, the extension could insert a gadget that let users add lists of food items which they “have”, “would like” or “would not like”. Other users can click on these items to confirm they are a good choice or delete them from a list. The most popular ingredients have the greatest influence on the generated recipe suggestions. The extension could also include a robot that would scan the conversation for food items, and pull those out and insert them into the gadget. It would work off phrases such as “I can bring some…” or “yuck I don’t like…” to place the various ingredients discussed into the right lists.
Recipeasy would automatically produce 3-5 of the top recipes based on your selections. Clicking on a recipe name within the gadget would open the recipe’s own Wave. Here, you might find suggestions and tips from other Wavers who have already tried the recipe and you can add your own review. These “Recipeasy” waves form your own virtual cookbook, which would be easily accessible by searching “with:recipeasy”.
There are some obvious businesses to partner with when making this extension — like supermarket chains which could offer to deliver the extra food needed to complete a recipe. Recipe sites or chefs could add to the Recipeasy database from their own repertoire and pull the Waver’s comments back onto their site.
An extension like Recipeasy would make cooking so much easier by using food you already have (or getting what you don’t have delivered) and taking the effort out of agreeing on a meal. While cooking may not appeal to you directly, just think — this could be the way you get your mother using Google Wave!
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On code.google.com, there is a special area called Google Code University. This area lists resources for educators on web technology and software development.
As of Friday, 5 Mar 10, it also lists resources on teaching Google APIs & tools, like codelabs and workshops: http://code.google.com/edu/googledev/index.html
If you have not been to the Google Code university before, the below is a synopsis of what it offers:
The website provides tutorials and sample course content so Computer Science students and educators can learn more about current computing technologies and paradigms. In particular, this content is Creative Commons licensed which makes it easy for CS educators to use in their own classes.
The Courses section contains tutorials, lecture slides, and problem sets for a variety of topic areas:
- AJAX Programming
- Algorithms
- Distributed Systems
- Web Security
- Languages
In the Tools 101 section, you will find a set of introductions to some common tools used in Computer Science such as version control systems and databases.
The CS Curriculum Search will help you find teaching materials that have been published to the web by faculty from CS departments around the world. You can refine your search to display just lectures, assignments or reference materials for a set of courses.
One of the offerings I found under the API presentations was the Robots v2 presentation done by Pamela Fox. This Prezi shows how the Robots API works inside Wave, and shows the new features of the Robots API v2.
Some of the other resources available were:
Besides those developer-targeted resources, there are some resources made entirely with teaching in mind, and these are listed below:
Hackathon in a Box
Contains tips for holding hackathons, and material for App Engine, Geo APIs, Google Chrome, and HTML 5 hackathons.WebDevEdu
Contains material for teaching client-side & server-side web programming, using Google API labs as the teaching aids.Geo APIs codelabs
Contains 9 codelabs on working the Google Geo APIs – KML, Google Earth, and the Maps APIs.Picasa PHP workshop
Provides step by step instructions to create your first mashup using Picasa, Google Data APIs and Google Maps.YouTube Data API via JSON: embedding videos in your site
Shows how to pull information about YouTube videos onto a website using JavaScript and the JSON format.
So make sure you visit the site. If you need some Google educational resources or if you are planning on doing a Google workshop or hack-a-thon you will find this information invaluable. The Google Code University is a great resource http://code.google.com/edu/googledev/index.html, make sure you visit.
Have you used this information before? Do you plan on using it in the future? Let us know about your experience at the Google Code University.
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Relevant Results giveaway: Google I/O
CNET Last year, the company showed off Google Wave for the first time and hosted dozens of smaller breakout sessions on technical issues from HTML5 to Android. … |
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