Google opens up Wave federation
Published: 03 Nov 2009 08:19 GMT
Google took an important step on Monday in the development of Google Wave, opening its servers up to outsiders who want their own waves to communicate with the outside world.
A 'wave' is a stream of messages that blends traditional email, instant messaging, file sharing and workplace collaboration tools. There have been plenty of supporters and detractors of Google Wave, Google's bid to reinvent email as a combination of such services. But Google's implementation of Wave is going to be only one part of the story: outside developers will have the opportunity to build their own wavelike services using the Google Wave API set.
Those outside implementations will be able to communicate with each other using the Google Wave Federation Protocol, now that Google has opened up federation of wave servers. This means if Company A built its own wave servers, it could interact with Company B's wave servers through a public peer-to-peer network facilitated by Google.
For the full story, see Google opens up Wave federation on CNET News.
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