The best questions of the Kiev-Sydney Wave Marathon. The choice of Lars Rasmussen

The first part of the marathon is November 25-26 , the online part of the marathon is December 2

11/10/09 Lars Rasmussen and Stephanie Hennon against the background of a wave created by the participants of GDD2009

Wave Marathon Winning Questions:

All, here are my favorite questions:
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Best question :
TimurKa: How much do you really have wave competitors? (How quickly, according to your forecasts, will you have direct competitors?)

Most creative question
Katerina Chaukina: Which communication tools are you using? Is it all about wave now? With any others strictly prohibited? :) Or “old-school” mails / messengers are still in use? Are you using up the holidays? (By what means do you communicate with relatives and friends? Now everything is just in the wave? / And other ways are strictly prohibited? :) / Or are the good old letters / messengers still running? Do you use Wave to plan your upcoming holidays?)

Santa Claus and his wishes? (Have you ever written letters to Santa Claus? Do you think modern children will use the Wave to find Santa Claus and send him their wishes?)

Geekest (hight-tech) question (The most geeky (technological) question)
Maxim Vasiliev: More complete support of structured content could dramatically expand the application of wave ... (
More complete support for structured content would very seriously expand the possibilities of using waves.

The current implementation has two fundamental limitations that prevent the organization of some other format:

The blips can only contain plain text in general and it is not possible to store structured content (XML) in waves, except as serialized into a string in the DataDocument.
there is also no way to adequately display such content for users, other than rendering the contents of DataDocuments in plain text with coloring, using a robot, and cleverly calculating operations based on text editing results.
gadgets can display anything, but operations on their state are competitive rather than collaborative (simultaneous modifications overlap each other), which also prevents large complex objects from being stored in the gadget.
In addition, the state update handler does not have information about the nature of data changes in the gadget, but only access to the entire updated state. (there are already third-party developments in this direction)
PS

and yes, I realize that operational transformations for manipulating a structured document are a highly non-trivial task.

but then, the developers in Google are not bad at all :))

Most unexpected question
Michael Dektyarev: What amount of today's Internet will the Waves replace? (What part of the current Internet will actually be replaced by waves?)

Most cheerful question
Vladimir Shulyak: What did you want to do? (Lars, how is it, waking up in the morning, going by car to the office, when you know that you own the world?)

Congratulations to the winners!

Thanks for your interest in Google Wave :)

Happy Waving, all ...

Lars

And once again the best question of the Kiev-Sydney Wave Marathon with Lars Rasmussen:
TimurKa:
How fast do you think Google Wave will have competitors?

Lars:
Very soon. We opened more than 6 months ago, and we work in a fairly rapidly growing industry. I hope, however, that our competitors will join the Wave Federation. I would like to see many competing Wave providers, but only if we can cooperate! If others start releasing their own competing systems, but making them closed (like IM) will greatly grieve me, and I hope that users will reject such attempts.

PS
Prizes for the best questions are waiting for Christmas from Sydney.

Pps
... and also, a UFO flew in and awarded the winners and the team of the Wave Marathon with invites to Habr.
Thank you for your support!