On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote: > Probably, some of you already saw that Google made something for which > I think that it will be the new form of the mainstream Internet > perception. You may read Slashdot article [1], a good description at > the blog "Google Operating System" [2] (not officially connected with > Google) and, of course, you may see the official site with more than > one hour of presentation [3]. > > I expected such kind of tool (a client connected with others via P2P > XML-based protocol; with servers for identification). However, I > didn't expect that i will come so soon, that it will be done by one > large corporation and that it will be done at the right way: open > protocol, free software referent implementation. > > At the official site they said that it will start to work during this > year. As one large corporation is behind the project, as well as free > and open source community is able to participate, I have no doubts > that it will be implemented all over the Internet (and not just > Internet) very quickly. Probably, in two years the basic component of > one modern operating system will not be a Web browser, but a Wave > client. Probably, Web will become a storage system, while all of the > interaction will be done via Waves. > > This development of Internet is very strongly related to the Wikimedia > projects: > * I want to be able to edit Wikipedia through the Wave client. > * I want to add my own notes to articles, history of articles etc. > * I want to have collection of my knowledge at one place, including > Wikipedia articles and my notes. > * I want to be able to make a program which would analyze articles on > Wikipedia and to give program and/or analysis to my friends. > * I want many more things to be browsable or editable or whatever from > a Wave client... > > All of those my (but, in one year, not just my) wishes may be > fulfilled just through work on MediaWiki and Pywikipediabot. So, I am > calling all of you who are willing to think about it or who are at the > position to think about it -- to start with thinking :) > > [1] - > http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/05/28/1912226/Googles-Wave-Blurs-Chat-Email-Collaboration-Software > [2] - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/05/google-wave.html > [3] - http://wave.google.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >
Very cool. Not sure if I buy into the "this is the future of the internet," but very very cool indeed. -Chad _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
