What is Google Wave Anyways?

I just thought that not everyone knows what Google Wave actually is. Well this video does a good job of explaining it in like 2 mins:

Google Wave

Had my first proper real-time wave today and although I was a little skeptical at first I must admit it really worked very well and surprisingly was actually alot of fun!

Im honestly not sure whether it will take off and become the 'next big thing' or not, but I hope so! I would love to write all my blog-posts, emails, msn conversations in one convenient place and have realtime updates an backups.

Anyway, if you are lucky enough to be in the preview add me mike.cann@googlewave.com and we can have a chat about it :)

EDIT:

As a quick edit, i have just installed a new plugin for wordpress that lets me embed google waves, so if you have google wave you should beable to see the following wave in full:

[wave id="googlewave.com!w+65k3TZQWA" color="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"]

10/GUI

This sort of thing really gets my juices flowing. I want it now!

In a Different Time and Place..

Wow this is a real blast from the past. Photos from my trip to America just surfaced on Facebook, tagged by one of the other lads that went Jakob. Some of them are great, so I grabbed em and chucked them on my picassa.

Ahh some real memories here..

Flash to IPhone CS5

I know this news is a coupple of days old now, but I havent blogged in a little while so I thought why not.

It looks like the new version of Flash (CS5 or Flash player 10.1 however you look at it) will be supporting compilation to native iPhone apps.

This is fantastic news as I have been interested in doing an iPhone app for some time and have even gone as far as reading the docs and purchasing the Developer program.The stumbling block was the learning curve with Objecive-C. Now tho it seems I should be able to get away with just learning a new nuances with Flash->iPhone.

What does this mean? Well some of my previous games BlastWave, IcySlicy, CodeDrop, BlastOut would all work well on the iPhone, however I detest simply re-hashing old ideas so likely ill be making a very simple flash game to start off with that will take advantage of all the new inputs the iPhone and Flash10.1 will allow!