In my previous post I speculated that Google Wave will allow new possibilities in how we share and experience music together. This also changes how artists/bands can potentially interact with their fans. Last weekend I attended GTUG Campout: Silicon Valley (Google Technology User Group) which centered around developing gadgets and robots in wave. There were many interesting and inspirational development efforts at this weekend hackathon where the focus was to complete the development of a Google Wave gadget or robot in a single weekend (starting at 9 PM Friday and finishing by 4PM on Sunday). After the demonstrations by each of the teams that finished, during dinner, all participants were invited to vote on the applications presented to pick some winners. The 1st place winner was a Wave gadget called “Videowave”, created by Sol Wu, Aaron Tong, and Nelson To.
The Videowave gadget allows real time video sharing and commenting in Wave. So how does this work and how does it translate to social media and music? You can start a wave that contains the videowave gadget and load a YouTube video. Say for example, you and your friends are big fans of Britney Spears or the Jonas Brothers and you are the 1st one to notice that a new Britney or Jonas Brothers video has been uploaded to YouTube. Being huge fans, you will of coarse want to share this with your friends. With Google Wave and the videowave gadget, you can invite your friends to watch the video together, all watching the video play at the same time and all able to chat and comment about what’s happening in the video, lyrics, dance moves, favorite parts etc. As you all chat, it’s all in real time with text everyone is typing appearing as it is typed. Since the YouTube video is new and more of your friends are joining the Wave, you’ll probably want to watch it a few more times.
At this time, Google Wave is only available to those who’ve applied for and received wave sandbox developer accounts. You can “sign up” now to hear more about Google Wave. It’s probably a good idea to get on the list now as I doubt Google will turn it on for 50 million new users simultaneously.
Peter Huboi
Haha anyone want to see a jonas brothers poster burn?
The commenter brings up (by example) that humorous YouTube videos are something that will definitely be shared with an application like this. And what do we poke fun at? Celebrities for one.
We just released a google wave gadget and robot that allows you to preview music from the Amazon mp3 store. It can also detect audio products and return inline links based on a Wave conversation or keyword query autodetecting artist name, song title, or album.
In case anyone is interested http://amazonmp3.withwaves.com