links for 2009-05-29

• Official Google Blog: Went Walkabout. Brought back Google Wave.
  The Google Wave product (available as a developer preview) is the web application people will use to access and edit waves. It's an HTML 5 app, built on Google Web Toolkit. It includes a rich text editor and other functions like desktop drag-and-drop (which, for example, lets you drag a set of photos right into a wave). 
  Google Wave can also be considered a platform with a rich set of open APIs that allow developers to embed waves in other web services, and to build new extensions that work inside waves.
  The Google Wave protocol is the underlying format for storing and the means of sharing waves, and includes the "live" concurrency control, which allows edits to be reflected instantly across users and services. The protocol is designed for open federation, such that anyone's Wave services can interoperate with each other and with the Google Wave service. To encourage adoption of the protocol, we intend to open source the code behind Google Wave.
• Cloud is an operations model, not technology | The Wisdom of Clouds – CNET News
  What makes a cloud a cloud is the fact that the physical resources involved are operated to deliver abstracted IT resources on-demand, at scale, and (almost always) in a multi-tenant environment. It is how you use the technologies involved.
  (tags: cloud_computing)
• Op-Ed Columnist – Would You Slap Your Father? If So, You’re a Liberal – NYTimes.com
  (tags: politics neuroethics neuropsychology)
• ElasticVapor :: Life in the Cloud: Google Jumps into the Cloud Wave (AJAX over XMPP)
  "…We welcome others to run wave servers and become wave providers, for themselves or as services for their users, and to "federate" waves, that is, to share waves with each other and with Google Wave. In this way users from different wave providers can communicate and collaborate using shared waves. We are introducing the Google Wave Federation Protocol for federating waves between wave providers on the Internet."
  (tags: google cloud_computing pubsub)
• Human Language Gene Changes How Mice Squeak – NYTimes.com
  (tags: genetics language)
• YouTube – The Vendor Client relationship – in real world situations
  (tags: heh amusements videos freelancing)
• Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today? – O'Reilly Radar
  (tags: google protocols cloud_computing)
• Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web.
• Introducing Typekit « The Typekit Blog
  As a Typekit user, you’ll have access to our library of high-quality fonts. Just add a line of JavaScript to your markup, tell us what fonts you want to use, and then craft your pages the way you always have. Except now you’ll be able to use real fonts. This really is going to change web design.
  (tags: typography javascript web_design)