Google Wave Review : Why it may Ultimately Fail

google-waveGoogle Wave as they say it, is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. It can both a conversation or a document for people to discuss and work together. They can use richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps and more. We have discussed every other thing you need to know about Google Wave including what it does, what are its features, who made it or what is special about it but at the end of the day, it seems that the whole thing is a digital popularity contest rather than people's real desire to have a whole new communication experience. Yes, Google gives us the technology for real-time language translation, online collaboration in real time and email, social networking and wiki and instant messaging under one roof, but the question is still the same, does people really need this? Just because we have the technology doesn't necessarily mean that we will use it. Let's get into some details to clarify what I am trying to say. Full article (766 words) »

Google Wave: Vision of Web 3.0?

google-wave logoGoogle is constantly upgrading and improving itself looking at the future of web with their kinds. In their endeavour of doing so, the latest innovation they showed us on Google Developers' conference at San Fransisco, is Google Wave. According to them,

Google Wave is a product that helps users communicate and collaborate on the web. A "wave" is equal parts conversation and document, where users can almost instantly communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Google Wave is also a platform with a rich set of open APIs that allow developers to embed waves in other web services and to build extensions that work inside waves.

In other words, its a communication tool that consolidates features from e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, multimedia management, document sharing and wiki. It is indeed, though I shouldn't sound as a G-fanboy, one of the most ambitious and just-at-the-edge projects Google has put his hands on, ever. I will try to justify my assumptions below. Let's get to know the Wave first.

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