Google Wave: ‘Surf’s Up’
p2pnet news view | Advertising:- “Everything Google does is designed with one purpose in mind: to make Google even more powerful than it is already. So will Google Wave eventually turn into Google Tsunami?”
p2pnet was wondering that back in May when news of this then latest Gargle effort started circulating in earnest.
And we’re still wondering.
Wave is billed as ““equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more” and now, if you’re a “select” customer of Google Apps, a developers who’s been, “active in the developer preview” started in June, and/or, one of the “first users who signed up and offered to give feedback,” you’ll be among 100,000 lucky people Google has chosen to, “preview Google Wave“.
So what’s a wave? According to online advertising company Grogle, it’s »»»
Equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
Shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.
Live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.
Very nice.
If only it wasn’t Google.
(Actually, if only Google wasn’t Google. 
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wondering that - Will Google Wave become a tsunami?, May 29, 2009
Google Wave – Surf’s up Wednesday: Google Wave update, September 29, 2009
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September 29th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
more crap. no thx.
September 30th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
To be honest, I think Google is “less” evil than some other corporate behemoths — hell, they have the “authors@google” thing, which was one of the bideos that I first learned about Rick Falkvinge), but they *do* kinda still suck:
1. The chinese censorship thing was bullshit.
2. Chrome is…..I can’t even see a point to it.
3. They should make that customized Ubuntu-derivative they claim to use available from the web: if a power-player like Google threw itself behind something like that, Micro$oft (and the whole closed-source/non-free software world) would be shitting bricks.
It wouldn’t be hard for Google to actually *not* be evil:
A. Don’t help repressive regimes
B. Don’t sell user information. (Better: don’t even COLLECT the information, so it’s not there to sell.)
C. Instead of just having that “google code” software portal, make that custom Ubunto version they use available via a Bit-torrent download, right from the main Google search page. (Hell, that would be something REALLY useful, not like Google Chrome, which is just another browser.)
Pretty simple fixes, actually.
October 3rd, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Got some Google Wave invites, email me stevencruisest@gmail.com