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  • 04 Jun 09
    smilewatch
    smile watch

    mal was kritisches gegen den wave hype:
    Google has a long history of launching or buying projects, only to get bored and abandon them months or years later. With Wave, as with so many Google projects, the company seems to be flinging things against the wall to see what sticks. No real thought has been given to its future beyond, “Wouldn’t it be cool if…?” When asked about marketing Wave during the launch Q&A, the Google reps said “We really haven’t thought about that too much.” What about advertising? “We haven’t thought about that yet.” What about competition? “It’s not something we really thought a lot about.” So what have the Googlers thought about?

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  • 02 Jun 09
    jaap_w
    Jaap Walhout

    wave

  • 30 May 09
    kkpadmanabhan
    Padmanabhan K.K.
  • garyedwards
    Gary Edwards

    Some interesting questions about Google Wave; proposed by Om Malik and Jordan Golson, but with some hesitant reservations. As the title of this nervous commentary suggests. The narrowness and shallow context of this article is to be expected from hapless back-benchers incapable of grasping the big picture. But GigaOM? What a surprise. Maybe i should be revising my Silicon Valley information feeds?

    Google is into it with Microsoft, and for the sake of the future of the OpenWeb, Google better win. How does anyone able to fog a mirror miss this? Incredible.

    "..... Has Google, with its latest project, Google Wave, actually come up with the Next Big Thing in online communication, or is it yet another Googler vanity exercise? Wave is a combination of email, instant messaging and a real-time wiki — plus open architecture and APIs. Or as creators Lars and Jens Rasmussen and Stephanie Hannon put it, “what email would be if it were invented today.”

    Om also points out another comment from Lars: <i>“Email is the most successful protocol on the planet…we can do better.” </i>

    I think Google Wave is in the center of a number of revolutionary Google initiatives advanced at the recent Google I/O. HTML 5, the Canvas Tag, O3D, and the assault on the x86 Microsoft desktop stronghold are all part of Google's greatest challenge; keeping the Open Web free and competitive with the emerging MS Web.

    Michael Hickens has an interesting article;<i><b> <a href="http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10001911/google-wave-crashes-over-microsoft/">Google Wave Crashes Over Microsoft"</a></b></i>. Michael spoke with me prior to publishing, and i gave him my cosmic viewpoint of how things fit together (or not). You can find a loose summary of our discussion here: <i><b><a href="http://docs.google.com/View?id=dghfk5w9_7hptc6vfn">Google Wave: Crashing the Microsoft Desktop Monopoly</a></b></i>. Clearly i am still writing :)

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  • 29 May 09
    intontsang
    intontsang

    Has Google (s goog), with its latest project, Google Wave, actually come up with the Next Big Thing in online ...