Google Wave (wave.me)

Wave.me is for sale!

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:21:15 +0000

Wave.me would be the perfect domain name for a Google Wave service/server or a blog like this. Are you interested to offer? Just send an email to info at wave dot me.

Google Wave is Coming: 100,000 Invites Go Out on September 30th

admin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:32:37 +0000

Well, in the last two months, Google and third-party developers have been hard at work testing out the system, fixing the kinks, and building some amazing extensions. Still, only a handful of people, almost all developers, have access. That’s about to change soon though: on September 30th, Google will start sending out about 100,000 invites for the next version of Google Wave.

Read the full article on Mashable.com

Google Wave: Is the World Ready? It’s All or Nothing with Wave

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:00:45 +0000

On May 28th, tech circles went wild when Google revealed Google Wave at its Google I/O conference. The response to and the questions about the new communication platform were staggering. Is it something I should use? Is it a game-changer? Could it kill email itself? This type of lofty rhetoric will always raise hopes and draw scrutiny. We want to believe that new and radical technologies like Wave will change the very way we live. And while our experiments with Wave have brought us to the conclusion that this platform may indeed be a game changer, it won’t happen if there isn’t widespread adoption. So instead of asking whether Wave will kill email, the better question to ask is this: Is the world ready for Wave-based communication?

Read the full article on Mashable.com

Google Wave Offers New Challenges for Service Providers

admin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:00:19 +0000

The recent launch of Google Wave generated a lot of attention, and for good reason. It’s recently crossed my path in a few different settings, and while the news is still fresh, there is a lot here for service providers to be thinking about. At a high level, Wave is Google’s entry into the real time collaboration space, and being Web-based, is poised to disrupt the status quo, not just for vendors, but service providers as well.

Read the full article at tmcnet.com.

Will Google Wave Eliminate the Need for PR as Media Relations?

admin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:00:36 +0000

New media has already reminded up that PR stands for public relations and not just media relations. This is still something that many organizations are navigating at the moment. Now Google is giving us yet another Wave of innovation and showing us what is possible in the browser, developed by the team that gave us Google Maps.

Read the full article at SocialMediaToday.com.

An early look at Google Wave on Android

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:28:02 +0000

It has been over a month since Google unveiled their new communications platform Wave. During the initial presentation Wave was said to be working on Android and iPhone, but we didn’t see much. We attended Google I/O and were lucky enough to get invites for the developer preview so I thought I would share my experiences.

Let me start by saying this sandbox preview was only meant for developers. Google wanted to give early access to those who would help build the platform. My only interest with Wave was how it would work on Android.

Read the full article on Androidandme.com

Google Wave Emulates Trends of Changing World

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:00:31 +0000

I’ve been thinking about Google Wave and its potential. To some, Google Wave is an integrated email, instant messaging, and collaboration platform that will mostly be used in the consumer space to make keeping in touch with friends and family easier. To others, Google Wave is a potential SharePoint competitor, offering real-time file collaboration for marketers writing a memo or programmers writing code. And of course, there are some individuals who go way overboard and say that Google Wave will radically change the way individuals communicate and view the world.

Read the full article at WindowsITpro.com

Cisco: Google Wave Completes Us

admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:00:20 +0000

Cisco is striving to redefine itself as a vendor connecting inner and outer clouds, thus reasserting its relevance in the context of a fluid Web-driven IT world increasingly dominated by the likes of Google,Salesforce, Oracle and IBM. It also hopes to parlay its legacy of infrastructure expertise into a reassuring presence, particularly for veteran IT administrators struggling to balance their in-house infrastructures against the cost-savings and potential efficiencies of cloud computing.

Read the full article at Bnet.com

Google Wave: Why it’s so good and enterprise software is so bad

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:27:29 +0000

Watching the Google Wave demo and reading Tim O’Reilly’s enthusiastic review, it struck me how amazingly cool Wave promises to be…and just how paltry most enterprise software remains. Sure, you think: it’s easy for Google to innovate. It has thousands of engineers! Maybe. But I don’t remember Microsoft coming up with Wave, and it has even more engineers. Neither did IBM, Oracle, SAP, etc. Google did, and it started Wave with a small core team of two brothers, a core team that appears to have done much of the work gestating Wave to its currently demo-able state. There’s a very good reason that Google innovated Wave, and not, for example, IBM.

Read the full article on CNET.com

How Google is boosting its innovation efforts

admin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:00:19 +0000

Internet giant Google is improving its innovation process to ensure its top management hear about the best ideas much faster than before.

The company, which famously allows its employs to spend one workday per week exploring projects unrelated to their job profiles, has set up a structure by which its engineers will now report ideas through division management channels, while chief executive Eric Schmidt will hear the best ideas at internal ‘innovation reviews’.

The meetings “force management to focus” on ideas that could be developed further, Schmidt told The Wall Street Journal. “We were concerned that some of the biggest ideas were getting squashed,” he said.

Read the full article