This presentation covered some basic concepts of Communication Platforms and explained how Google's Wave could make a difference. There were lots of demos which were shown during the session to give the first look for the community.

1. Vijay Raj ( Vj ) Google Wave – First Look

2. Agenda Introduction to Communication Platforms Google Wave and its architecture Overview of Robots and Gadgets Potential Concerns of Wave – (TODAY) How can you play a role! Call to Actions

3. Communication Platforms Email Services – Gmail, MS Outlook, Hotmail Instant Messaging – Gtalk, MSN Messenger Voice Chat – Skype, Fring Photo Sharing – Flickr, Picasa, Photoshop Online CMS-Joomla, Drupad, NET Nuke, MS Community Server, Wiki Video Blogging – YouTube / MetaCafe/ MSN Soapbox, Yahoo Videos Social Networking – Facebook, Orkut, LinkedIn, MySpace Online Document sharing – Google Docs, Office Online (2010), Blogs – Blogger, Wordpress, Blogengine.NET Microblogs – Twitter Geo Tagging – Latitude, Google Maps, Live Maps

4. Google Wave and Architecture Real-time communication platform Social networking, and project management

5. Platform Support

6. Enough of Gyaan... Show me the WAVE !

7. Demos Spell Checker Lingual Chat Conversation Wiki – Document Porting Tweeting from the Wave Weather update Porting Wave on a blog/website Image share Map Address Syntax Code - Collaborate Work

9. Changes to pricing - will it always be free?

10. Privacy

11. Learning curve

12. Offline access

14. Embedding ability - Any website / Blog

15. Applications and Extensions: Developers can build their own apps within waves.

16. Wiki functionality

17. Open source- foster innovation and adoption.

18. Playback

19. Natural language

21. Call to Action for more Information Contact Me My Blog - http://www.msigeek.com/google Wave with me at vj@wavesandbox.com mail me – vijayraj.vm@gmail.com Google Technology User Group (GTUG) GTUG (Google Technology User Group) is a community where programmers meet to discuss and work with several Google developer resources and products. The group organizers conduct regular technical events You can be a part of GTUG too, http://www.bangalore-gtug.org/.

22. Questions

23. Thank You… Meet you on the wave !!