GTUG Campout Demos

Last night saw the end of the Google Technology Campout weekend, with about 25 or 30 groups giving demos of a lot of cool Wave apps. I particularly liked the robot/gadget that analyzed when it was time for a group of wave participants to leave the wave and meet in real life, supplying a list of possible venues to meet based on the participants’ physical location. A vocabulary analyzer from a group of brothers also looked pretty good. I also liked the h3lp application, kind of like an Onstar four your mobile phone, which pushed out alerts to selected contacts in case of an emergency. In the end, the winner was the video sharing team.

The demo for our BlipWiki project (which I blogged about here) unfortunately had technical difficulties so our presentation didn’t go so well. One of our 2 browsers couldn’t seem to connect so we didn’t get to show our Wiki updating in real time in the way we would have liked. Still, I think we had a great application at the end of the weekend, and I certainly learned a lot, met a lot of great people, and got to know Google Wave much better. A great weekend…

There are photos and videos from the weekend posted here and a write up in the San Jose Mercury News.

Tags: campout, google, gtug, wave