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Google Wave: Up and Running
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Google Wave: Up and Running

by Andres Ferrate
March 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
8h 23m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Sample Use Case: Running a Soccer League in Google Wave

Two avid soccer fans, Jake and Sophie, volunteer as managers for a local coed soccer league in their hometown. In previous years, they have coordinated a league of 16 teams via a static informational web site and emails manually sent out to team captains a week before each match.

This year the two of them have decided to use Google Wave to manage the league and its associated logistics. Their goal is to utilize the wiki-like capabilities and multiparticipant nature of waves to improve their communication with member teams. They also hope that the players will use waves to provide feedback about the games and to share photos/videos that they may have for each game.

Prior to the start of the season, Jake and Sophie create several reference waves, including a preliminary “schedule wave” that is updated on a weekly basis with scores of each game. For each game listed on the schedule wave, they include links to other placeholder waves that they have set up to provide reference information for each game. Each one of these “game waves” includes the match time, teams, a Google Maps gadget with the soccer field location, and a third-party weather gadget that dynamically displays the weather forecast for the match day.

Each team captain is provided with a link to the schedule wave, which they use to navigate to individual waves for particular matches in which their teams will play. Jake and Sophie create another wave with instructions for ...

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