Silverwave: Silverlight for Google Wave
The recent launch of Google Wave has got me thinking about a new set of Controls for Microsoft Silverlight. Each of the new Controls would enable designers and developers to connect with the different components inside Wave. This would bring together two of the latest innovations to the User Experience on the Social Web: the revolutionary interpretation of how we communicate with Google Wave and the next generation of User Interface Design with Microsoft Silverlight.
My hopes are that, 1.) Such a project be released into the open source domain, preferely by one of the many excellent Silverlight development companies who currently have open source Controls publically available, 2.) The project be names Silverwave, and 3.) An additional Theme in the download which transforms the Interface into Liquid Metal — known, as course, as the Silverwave theme. A liqud metal version of the Google Wave logo would be cool but not entirely necessary.
(This is, of course, merely a concept. As an Experience Designer I can attest to the simplicity of Microsoft Silverlight and would rejoyce a marriage with Google Wave. Being that Wave is due to be released later this year on Google Code as an open source download, I believe this would be an excellent opportunity to couple the adoption rate of both these technologies, while showing two of the biggest competitors on the web what can be accomplished through the power of collaboration!)
