Big News:

We have big news to report that Next Agenda is now one of the first and few organizations in the world to be able to use the new Google Wave platform, a real breakthrough in scaling up online collaboration. After much anticipation in technology circles, Google just opened access to the beta tool in October with 100,000 accounts, and Next Agenda will soon have as many of them as we need for our network of participants helping to figure out the Clean Energy Challenge. The general public release is expected in the spring or summer of 2010.

The good news is that building the new Next Agenda website with the Wave collaborative platform behind it will give us the ability to productively work together in a very sophisticated manner and evolve with the front edge of the collaborative field. Developers will be able to build apps on Wave (like they do on the iPhone platform) to dramatically expand the collaborative capability over time.

The slightly not-as-good news is that we will need some time to get Google Wave integrated into our new website so you can’t use it immediately. For those who want to know more about Google Wave and its capability, check out some of the links below:

“Most People Don’t Get Google Wave, but A Lot Do,” story in San Francisco Examiner with a funny video that explains Wave too.

“Google Wave has the potential to be a gamechanger.” In a San Francisco Chronicle story:

Los Angeles Times on Wave’s potential impact on Journalism.

Wall Street Journal with interview of Wave Team leads.

PC World overview on Five Reasons to Dive into Google Wave:

A BusinessWeek story on the potential of the Google Wave Apps:

A story about the criticism of Wave not being simple – and that’s the point. Again, in SF Examiner.

There are plenty of other stories and blog posts, but as someone who has watched the tech scene and Silicon Valley for a long time, I think Google Wave is going to take online collaboration into a new realm. I am extremely happy that Next Agenda will go into that realm with them, early.

Stay connected as we innovate through this next stage of Next Agenda, and move to the next stage in the Clean Energy Challenge.

Peter Leyden

Founder of Next Agenda

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Update: Our Work for the Breakthrough Institute's Inaugural Conference

by: michael.filtz

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