Is Google Wave the spork of the Internet?

not impressed.

not impressed.

voting yes to google wave

Yes its hype, but yes it makes an awefull lot of sense and checks all the right boxes.

1. replaces email (lets face its sloowwww, y shoudl it take ten minutes for me to recieve one email???)

2. Instant messaging with out even realising it.

3. open source! YES YES YES

4. DECENTRALISED YES YES YES YES

ok sorry im excited.

Wave = OLPC activity collaborative mesh networking. No?

After watching this entire Wave video on youtube, I was more and more put in mind of the activity collaboration mesh networking concept brought about within the Sugar UI on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.

Wave seems, at least in part, to be an elaborate version of that. No?

I see a lot of people misunderstanding what Wave is

A lot of people are looking at Wave like it's a new GMail or something. It isn't.

It's more like a new Email. It's a protocol, a set of standards, and is not "centralised" at Google in any way.

Anybody can be a Wave provider. Anybody can write a Wave front end. At its simplest, Wave is a way for 2 or more people to concurrently edit an XML document. That's it.

So why would Google do this? Simple. They want the web to be more useful than the desktop. Google Wave is Google's way of waving goodbye to Microsoft. With the power of statistical, whole-web language models and open federation, the web just took a generational leap forward. Make no mistake.

Just my 2c.

Dan

Google: Hype vs Reality

Google is the King Of Search, but they don't excel at anything else.

They are better at generating hype, than they are at delivering quality products.

Google Apps, for example, has hardly turned out to be the MS Office Killer that it was touted to be.

Unified communication has been tried many times before

Google Wave may just be the next Microsoft Bob.

I'm sure it demos well, but nothing I've seen suggests it will be a game-changer. It appears to be one of a long list of applications that have attempted to unify communications by treating different communication channels as if they had the same interaction metaphor. Google is far from the first company to try this, and won't be the last.

Google Wave's a game changer.

Google's Wave is litterally a game changer in terms how how collaboration will happen on the Web.

A Youtube video by Google's Engineer David on how Wave addresses Concurrency prompts me to share a technical note of a product we showcased at TechCrunch50 in 2008, which was built with a similar goal. Then again, we weren't able to make a point as Google has managed to.

David's video inspires us to share notes on how we at 'Samepage' a real-time collaborative productivity tool showcased in 2008 at Techcrunch approached Concurrency and Collaborative Editing. We've notes to share at http://blog.samepage.in/?p=86 and also posted a video response you can view at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyYTmWjNZ2I . we would like to have some feedback .

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to add a text comment on Youtube to David's post nor have the video owners (google) accepted my video response.