On Jun 16, 3:20 am, rgibson <[email protected]> wrote:

> I posted this message earlier, but didn't see it show up on the list;
> sorry if repost.  I'm also a newbie, so apologies if this is a dumb
> question.

I think this is a group where messages from new members have to be
manually approved by a moderator, to cut down on spam. It'd be nice if
it said that somewhere though.

> I'm trying to do something conceptually simple.
> 1) Show a google map in one gadget (Gadget 1).
> 2) From another gadget, send a message with lattitude, longitude
> coordinates to Gadget 1 and have it update the location shown in the
> map.

You could use PubSub: see http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/pubsub.html.
Note that that link is for the Legacy API; pubsub is still supported
in the gadgets.* namespace (see 
http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/reference/#gadgets.pubsub),
but there's no further documentation AFAIK.

Otherwise, you'll basically have to build one yourself; server-side
push would be ideal, but a good bit of work. Perhaps you could poll
the OpenSocial data store? Not sure of the overhead involved there.

> Is there another way to do this in a more collaborative way?  Maybe
> everyone is waiting for Google Wave to do this?

Given it was only announced a couple of weeks ago, I doubt there's
much "waiting" gone on. :^) But yeah, Wave might be an option for this
kind of thing someday.

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