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Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

ILikeGoogleWave — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:12:51 -0000

Collaboration .. Yes
Replace Email .. hmmm.... BIG POSSIBILITY! but need to give a big interesting facts for our old folks.. like "hey mom, I bought you an interactive multi-touch TV! MOM: ooooo... what's so interactive about.. i rather sit here and hand me that remote-control..."

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

Birgit Hapfelmeier — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:49:39 -0000

It remains thrilling if and how Google Wave can change the communication in 2010 and what that means for the business world.
Thank you for the great discussions and background information.

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

Grant Hutchinson — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:08:35 -0000

I could give a rip about Google Wave, but I take issue with your insinuation that the Newton was a “flop”. True, it never achieved the mass-market success of similar, yet differently executed devices such as the Palm Pilot. But, I would argue that the Newton didn’t fail at all. Technologically, it did what the platform set out to do … and did it very well. It was developed and improved over several years and took advantage of increasingly more powerful hardware iterations. It certainly achieved a status within the consumer and corporate communities and is currently appreciated as an innovative and still unrivaled (in many aspects) computing platform.

A flop? Hell, no.

A less successful product for Apple that was killed just as it was getting some traction? Absolutely.

Calling the Newton platform a “flop” is both unfair and inaccurate.

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

Blogs Marketing — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:01:05 -0000

I think it will do well, Google's doing it!!!....

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

gatorallin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:05:25 -0000

I love the idea that the live chat is instant and see this as a huge time saver. It does seem more work related as a tool, vs for personal uses...although in the demo they were clearly trying to make it seem ideal for personal use. For me the product is hard to explain at first and maybe why they did over a 1 hour video on it.. my elevator speech to others is that "if gmail = 2D, then Wave = 3D email". I am not sure about the name, "wave" and wish it was e-wave or something catchy... either way it seems we will get to waive goodbye to regular email....and Can't wait...email....and Can't wait...

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

Scott Lafferty — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:57:44 -0000

If they get killer apps like Sketchup on Google Wave then it will succeed.

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

Danny Peck — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:09:30 -0000

Maybe something as amazing as Google Wave will compel people to switch from IE to Firefox. Word of mouth "Hey, you need Firefox to use it. But it's free and much better than IE" would be a possible scenario.

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

Matt Busse — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:20:30 -0000

People excited about Google Wave on Twitter are a niche within a niche of Internet users.

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

Nick — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:11:04 -0000

I think the IE users will take a while to adopt, and getting the world to replace email is a massive ask - I personally hope they do it , how cool (not spelt cuil) would it be if everyone used this.

PS roll on 2012 and the slow death of IE6

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

Daniel Chen — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:16:01 -0000

i think it is going to take a long time but in the end goggle will get to the tipping point

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

killerfiller — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:57:58 -0000

definitely!

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

Rey0208 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:54:17 -0000

It would be nice to imagine a world where everyone uses something like Google Wave. But I can't see offices, families, schools and other non-social-media industries adopting this very soon. People whose work doesn't rely on social media resources are content with Microsoft Outlook, and almost everyone I know at work (I work in a hospital research centre) still uses IE.

I am, however, looking forward to the iPhone integration. I think Google Wave will start catching on a lot faster when people start seeing the tech-savy cool kids use it. Cuz then, like the iPhone vs. Blackberry, it'll be more about having fun and playing with your apps than it'll be about work and productivity.

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

Harsh Agrawal — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:07:25 -0000

It will maintain the hype it has created... Thats what most of developers are saying.. :)

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

OgreTactics — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:00:55 -0000

Why ask if most of the people didn't even try Wave ?

One thing is certain 65% of internet users still uses IE, Google has made the not really smart move not to release Chrome on Mac, and a lot of people don't even use Gmail.
So I doubt that it will replace emails, too many casual users don't even know what is a "browser" or a "plugin".

But slowly, and if surely, they can reach all other specialized audience: power users, corporation/organisation and schools.
Problem is: they seem to be only focusing on coders/developpers and most of them are just working on gadgets and robots that will never meet the needs or inovations that only professionals, marketers, promoters, artists or teachers can design.

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

Sonya A. Willis — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:53:57 -0000

I'm very excited about Google Wave. I've already started storyboarding ideas about to incorporate it into my company's next major communication which is itself still in the storyboard phase. So many possibilities for this...

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

Danny Peck — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:42:24 -0000

I think it will, given time, succeed, and succeed quite well. There is something extremely viral about Google Wave. Talking about the product with others stirs excitement. It has an extremely high level of novelty at this moment, even before launch. Things that work and work well have a history of spreading. Word of mouth was much of what was the success of sites like Twitter. People just started talking about it. And it was an open platform, so people started using it in a variety of ways that weren't even considered by the original creators. That's because a well designed flexible framework like Google Wave will inspire user interaction. People will say "Hey, we could totally use Google Wave for this" much like small companies slowly said "Hey, we could use Basecamp for this." And more and more, felt themselves coming back for more. Things will just start to "make more sense" to do in Google Wave instead of email or IM. Or twittering @ someone.

What's crucial for Google Wave, I think, it that the user's FIRST EXPERIENCE has to be a good one. Has to be like that moment you log in to Gmail after using hotmail and saying "Yeah. This makes sense. This is better." Or creating a Facebook account back in the day after being abused by MySpace for so long. "Wow. This is MUCH better. It just makes sense."

I think new users will stumble upon and reveal functionality as they use it. Like, "oh I just replied to this person --- WAIT! I can see what they're typing!?!? WOW!"

Not since the days of ICQ were you able to actively watch your friend type. And I think that was actually one of the biggest draws to ICQ. you could see it happen. And someone's typing has a way of body language that emoticons do not. Pauses, rephranes (sp?) , these things give away subtle hints of someone's feelings about something, and I believe it will add an additional element of emotion to email and instant messaging. Building image galleries, inserting games, and loading up invites to parties through the yes no widget will become "team building" because never before have we been able to, as a one to many interaction digitally, been able to build things together visually in real-time!

Think of how fascinating this will be to use!!

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

peteskenandore — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:37:32 -0000

I watched the entire loooooong video and can't wait. It will be on par with google maps.

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

mattrs — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:34:20 -0000

Reading the anticipation on Twitter right now....pretty insane.

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

Name — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:28:05 -0000

Yes, I believe Google's Wave will have major success over the next two years and will change how everyone communicates. E-mail will be history and MS will change the IE platform in order to survive. IE will not go away but will change and become better. I truly believe Google will force MS to change. The features in Wave are so impressive that I think e-mail will be history in less than five years.

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

Glenn Engstrand — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:27:46 -0000

Perhaps they are anticipating a bit but, if you look at what is going on in the world of Enterprise 2.0, there is a need for a form of online collaboration that is more viable than email yet, at the same time, is close enough to email for most knowledge workers to get it. That is what wave is about for me.

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

drale — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:13:22 -0000

Hopefully things will be built and guide people better when using a Wave. Because right now a Wave can be anything you want it to be. Which is awesome. But I think some people have a lot of trouble comprehending things in such as continuing to treat that Wave like and email or document, or following any other standard that seems to have be magically set by the users of the wave. I can see someone who uses wave like email and also uses wave like a chat or microblog update, be looking at a Wave that is being used as a chat and not understand that they can past in that long article, document, or picture. There are programs out today they do great job for what they do, but people complain they dont work because they aren't using them to their fullest or correctly.

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

NetApex — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:59:55 -0000

Besides the fact that it is Google's, plenty of other major names have already hopped on board. It may start off in businesses and then move to mainstream instead of the other way around.

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

Hanasmasya — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:56:53 -0000

too complicated..

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

mattrs — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:52:12 -0000

IDK....Zenbe has already done this with Shareflow and it doesn't seem to be that popular. But the Google name is probably enough to at least make people think that this is the greatest thing ever.....even if it's really not. And what's this I hear about it not being able to interact with email?...bummer. Also, even if I get an invite, it's very possible that anyone I know will not be using it as well, making it kinda worthless.

Re: Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?

Rory Clapham — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:44:12 -0000

I wrote a blog about the implications of Wave the other day. I can see it succeeding, but I'm not too sure that it's a good idea for such a paradigm shift to be hosted all by one company. I'm not going to repeat myself, but you can read a little bit more about what I mean here: http://www.roryclapham.co.u...

Nonetheless, I can see it doing very well, but a core user base is what it's going to have initially, a little bit like Twitter is now. Although unlike Twitter, Google has the marketing arm to really push it into the mainstream and have probably seen it as a commercial product right from the outset.