Comments on: Will the Google Wave inspire a Revolution?

By: Crowdsourced or Elite Unit Innovation? | CloudAve

Crowdsourced or Elite Unit Innovation? | CloudAve — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:50:49 +0000

[...] team in Australia, far from the company’s Mountain View, CA headquarters. Google Wave is transformative, and will likely usher new design principles into a host of software [...]

By: Crowdsourced or Elite Unit Innovation? « I’m Not Actually a Geek

Crowdsourced or Elite Unit Innovation? « I’m Not Actually a Geek — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:32:14 +0000

[...] team in Australia, far from the company’s Mountain View, CA headquarters. Google Wave is transformative, and will likely usher new design principles into a host of software [...]

By: Molly Holtman

Molly Holtman — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:45:10 +0000

Looks pretty cool to me. I’d definitely give it a try. Seemed a little creepy at first for the recipient to be able to see what I’m typing as I type it, but when you think about how verbal conversations happen, it seems very normal.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:58:31 +0000

Insert “SegWay” into your entire write up and it frames it up nicely. There is innovation for innovations sake and there is practical use of innovation that evolves and brings the users along.

Google still hasnt figured this out and this is why it’s neat but not going to change much in the next 10 yearrs any more than the Segway changed cities as predicted.

By: Is It Surf’s Up for Google Wave? Or Are Conditions Glassy?

Is It Surf’s Up for Google Wave? Or Are Conditions Glassy? — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:01:55 +0000

[...] If that’s the case then Google has some addition hurdles they’ll need to jump based on their current ability to execute in the enterprise market. This is a point my colleague Tom Austin makes in his observation of Wave. [...]

By: Whit Andrews

Whit Andrews — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:28:18 +0000

Tom, the most exciting thing about this is just what you say: This is something that looks and feels genuinely new. I covered push technology at Web Week, (may it rest in peace), and while many parts of it didn’t seem new, some of it did. In many ways, it represented a genuine shift in the way a lot of things were being accomplished — in personalization, in rich media, in communication, in software development and delivery — and while a lot of those things eventually went (back) to separate entities, I still feel charmed by a lot of what it promised. One of the reasons we push devotees are so snarky now about those days is that we miss the sense of promise and excitement that Marimba and Constellation and Backweb helped us all find in our disillusioned souls.

I see the Wave stuff and I think: Maybe this time it will work. It’s easy to say it won’t, and chances are you or I would be right if we did say it — but what’s more important is to analyze why we hope for technologies like these, and how they’ll take shape. If not this time? Why not? And when?

What intrigues me is a sense of real collaboration and intelligent sharing of documents and data. A lot about it concerns me — the furrowed brow sort of thing, where an analyst thinks, “OK, but why will it work like that? How will it be intuitive? How will be people take advantage of this in unforeseen ways?” What Google has is an international stage. Let’s see what they do with these lines.