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[Niklas]

Saw this already yesterday, but while performing a search here I found no topics regarding this, please correct me if I was wrong.

Instead of presenting the upcoming product Google Wave myself, I'd strongly recommend you to watch the presentation at http://wave.google.com/
It's over an hour, but gives a very good view of Google Wave, and the possibilities available with it.

What I personally found most amazing was how the sort of instant syncing was possible even while the service providers were different (on 3rd party servers etc). The fact that all this will be open source, I personally see this a huge product with a lot of potential. E-mails haven't followed other developments that has been going around the internet, and lacks a lot of the features that wouldn't be possible to fix anymore due to the protocol, while some of the features available with wave are possible with the old emails like gmail has well illustrated, I do think it would be time to be moving on.

Something they don't really cover well in the presentation is the system requirements for a server running wave, and especially how resource intensive is it to have constantly sending and receiving those requests.

Looking forward to this a lot. Certainly wish it is as good as it seems, and it will be received positively by the consumers.

[devkim]

its looking good, but we don't know if its gonna be successful until it launches.

[datums]

I've had the opportunity to play with the developer sandbox and it's super buggy, way beyond what you saw in the demo. Just clicking you get pop up errors that clear your input. I think in it's current state it will be difficult for developers to even begin testing any code on it. If it takes off it would be a nice niche for dedicated server providers.

[kellogg9]

Very buggy

[mooseweb]

Originally Posted by Yayhosting

good info, that video is long

Or your to lazy to watch it

It looks promising, but as you and everyone else should know, it WILL be successful.

Anything made by anyone working at Google who can use that name, it will work.

[GeorgeDD]

I've also had a peek at this and although it looks interesting, there's a lot of work still to be done.

[Richard-Buzz]

Originally Posted by GeorgeDD

I've also had a peek at this and although it looks interesting, there's a lot of work still to be done.

Just remember, its still the early stages.

[JustinAY]

mooseweb, not true. Google IM anyone?

[wirefusemedia]

I actually use Google IM all the time personally. I have it up only while I'm in gmail though. But it's still helpful.

[nibb]

Originally Posted by mooseweb

Or your to lazy to watch it

It looks promising, but as you and everyone else should know, it WILL be successful.

Anything made by anyone working at Google who can use that name, it will work.

That is not true. Actually the only product that is giving Google profits is Adwords/Adsense. The rest is not producing enough.

Sure, Gmail, Google Earth, etc are successful on a massive marketing point of view, but not on on the profit side.

Allot of products of Google if not failed never took off. IM is one of them. Froggle another. Google books, even Google Checkout is not a major merchant system like PayPal is. I can go on and on. Google has dozens of products and people know their Search, Earth, Gmail, Adwords, Adsense, and now Chrome which is not yet there. How can you call other 50 google services? A failure? Maybe not, but not a market leader.

As far as I know Chrome or Android is a market leader either yet and dont be fooled by Microsoft, they can jump into the cloud OS faster then Google and they will with Windows Seven. By the way, Android sucks and Chrome. Oh hell, that browser is screaming fast but is the more unstable browser on a production enviroment ever. We cannot keep Chrome running more then 3 hours reloading or Ajax monitoring screen without seing that message "opps, Google Chrome seems to have crashed". And its the only one that crashes before 1 day. Firefox last at least 3 days without having to the exit it and reopen it again and Explorer last 2 weeks and Opera never crashes.

Google has a big name behind everything but dont be fooled by that. It doesnt mean they are the best at everything. They sure want, and they would leave all of you that are in the hosting industry out of business if they could do it. Thats is sure, specially because they try now some webhosts to integrate their webmasters tools into their control panels. What people dont realize is that Google is building a massive client list with that and they will soon lauch a similar cloud/hosting service, and there you go hosting companies, flush the toilet. Do they care? No. Its just money for them. If people say Microsoft was evil its because they had not idea on what Google is up. They want to be everywhere and own data on a massive scale. Its all about control and Google is doing it perfectly.