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But, all like all good fairy tales, the great Google Wave hype rollercoaster has to come to an end.

I'm sorry to be a killjoy, but I've been puttering around in Google Wave for the best part of a week now, and I have no idea in hell what I'm supposed to be using it for. I've watched all the videos (yes, even the cool 3.5 per cent one), tried out Google Wave with people in the Australian tech early adopter community both within my company and outside, but got absolutely nowhere with this platform.

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Its engineers, for example, all have “20 percent
time” in which they’re free to pursue projects they’re
passionate about. That’s how Google News came about.
One of its researchers would visit 10 to 15 news sites
daily to keep up with the unfolding story in the aftermath
of September 11, 2001. He decided to write a program to
do it, using a Web crawler to cluster articles. He emailed
it around the company, and its potential was immediately
spotted. It became a great product.
As one executive said, “He didn’t intend to build a
product, but accidentally gave us the idea for one.” That’s
the reason for the 20 percent time rule: “We trust (our
people) will build interesting things.”

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Last fall we launched Project 10^100, a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. Your response was overwhelming. Thousands of people from more than 170 countries submitted more than 150,000 (or around 10^5.2) ideas, from general investment suggestions to specific implementation proposals. As we reviewed these submissions, we started noticing lots of similar ideas related to certain broad topics, and decided that combining the best aspects of these individual proposals would produce the most innovative approaches to solving some very pressing problems.

The result is the list you see below of 16 "big ideas," each inspired by numerous individual submissions. Which ones should we make happen? You tell us. Your vote for one of these ideas will help our advisory board choose up to 5 projects to fund, at which point we'll launch an RFP process to identify the organization(s) that are best suited to implementing them.

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But the demo video for Google Wave doesn't capture the importance of the tool as a disruptive and innovative development platform. Tom Mornini, chief technology officer and founder of Engine Yard, a company that offers an integrated software stack for Ruby developers, discusses the real meaning of Google Wave.

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That is exactly how I felt about 20% time. It wasn’t about the time. In fact, I didn’t actually know that many people who took the time! The key was the following effect:

* In order for 20% time to work, anyone must be able to see what is out there
* In fact, if you want to get some people working “for free” you need to both advertise your project, and write it in such a way that it is easy to get ramped up and productive (end result: better code)

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In some ways I’d go further than what Scoble says. Having a success like any of the companies mentioned in this post is exceptionally rare despite the millions of smart people who have tried. The likelihood if it happening twice at the same company is so unlikely that to criticize a company for failing to do it is silly. I agree it’s unlikely Google will create the next twitter, but odds are slim Twitter will create the next Twitter too.

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It may be premature to discuss this, but a key to the mainstream appeal and adoption of Wave will be its ability to incorporate existing email accounts and to function as a client for traditional email.

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Google's upcoming revolutionary collaborative framework. Launching later this year.
Learn more about Google Wave, the API, and the protocol.

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Many companies, says Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, can skirt downturns entirely by coming up with innovations that change the game in their industries—or create new ones. (When asked if Google's strategy would change as the economy heads into a likely recession, he replied: "What recession?") In a recent interview in a tiny meeting room next to his Mountain View (Calif.) office, Schmidt told BusinessWeek Silicon Valley Bureau Chief Robert D. Hof how Google manages the tricky process of innovation.

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The end result is something that comes across as a distinctly sophisticated Web application clearly made up of many elements that sometimes behave somewhat unpredictably precisely because it’s designed to be highly extensible and freeform. - Dion Hinchcliffe

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Google July 7 took its core Google Apps out of beta and said Fairchild Semiconductor has moved its 5,500 employees to Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE) from IBM Lotus Notes, the latest coup for the company's growing effort in cloud computing.

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My hunch is that Google will manage to get Chrome OS onto a bunch of netbooks and then hit a brick wall of unfulfilled customer expectation, at least initially, because the infrastructure doesn't exist to support a mostly web-based computing experience.

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Should innovation-minded managers look at the fast-growing Internet company as a model — or an anomaly?

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The problems with Google’s start-up purchases strikes at the core of Google’s innovation shortcomings. First, many of the best new web ideas in the last few years have come from start-ups – not from Google, so it has to buy up little companies to keep the best new ideas coming in. This is to be expected. No one company can come up with all the new ideas. But it does illustrate that Google does depend, and in fact must compete with, start-ups for innovation.

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In my previous post I mentioned the various problems with relying on incubation teams to bring innovation into a product or organization. The obvious follow up question is that if carving off some subset of your team to work on the "next big thing" while the rest of your employees work on the boring bread and butter product(s) that pay the bills doesn't work, how do you revitalize an organizations products and make them innovative?

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So here comes the Wall Street Journal with another state of Google piece signaling a key strategy shift. Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Jessica Vascellaro he is afraid Google's normally hands-off approach to managing product teams is letting good ideas stagnate or slip out the door in the mass exodus of frustrated Googlers whose mental seeds can't find purchase in the giant Google garden.

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Wave’s relevance to the enterprise might seem premature with so many of the early and current Web 2.0 applications (blogs, wikis, social networks, Twitter-style social messaging, mashups, etc.) still — often arduously — making their way into the workplace years after their inception. Though we seem to finally be hitting a tipping point with 2.0 tools at work, Wave itself seems credible enough to get on our watchlists, at least to understand the implications.

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Do those old H1 tags still work? Actually word’s out, they don’t really count much anymore for SEO. Does count, power or diversity of inbound links take the hill for search engines ranking pages algorithmically for keywords? Actually, correlation data indicates that link diversity is a factor which has become more important.

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But how will Google ever make money? There's the rub. The company's adamant refusal to use banner or other graphical ads eliminates what is the most lucrative income stream for rival search engines. Although Google does have other revenue sources, such as licensing and text-based advertisements, the privately held company's business remains limited compared with its competitors'.

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Bookmarking + notes

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