Here’s the full video of the Google Wave demo from this morning at Google’s IO conference in San Francisco.
Our full review of Google Wave is here. Exclusive interview with the founders is here, and our video and notes from the press conference is here.
I cannot wait for this to be live!
Me neither. Wave is Google’s Twitter-killer!
Would sell all your Twitter stocks while you still can.
Hmm… I dunno, I think that Twitter is still good for status reports.
Not only Twitter – facebook, exchangeserver(?), e-mail sites, MSN and other a-like clients.
Skype could get some problems when Wave gets googletalk intergration.
And alot of other sites – I really think this Wave will hit the world like nothing else.
We know how quick a site can get HUGE amount of users(fb) so the world is ready to go online for – good!
I would love to hear some feedback from anyone who has had access to the closed testing.
This is amazing.
michael you my boy and all but i am so glad this is the official video and not the one you recorded .
This is going to be a big hit, can’t wait!!!
it’s equivalent to explaining how to play the dvd to your grandmother…too complex!
Maybe not to the grandma who twitters
Hmm, I’m not that sure it will be a problem.
I think it will be possible to use (alot) without all the “extras”.
Looks pretty cool thanks
Wow. Very impressive. I get it now. It’s not a twitter of facebook killer. It is a platform. Products can be build using waves as the core. Very cool.
VCP (Very Confusing Product)
You just wouldn’t even believe how excited I am about this. DEATH TO TWITTER.
This is truly awesome I cannot wait!
It’s like Xobni for Gmail.
Not even close.
It’s so not.
When Facebook acquired Parakey a few years ago, I thought this would be the result. Google continues to innovate like a smaller/agile company.
Let’s hope it keeps happening. I was arguing with a friend yesterday over whether Google was in danger of turning into the next Microsoft – stories like how their lead designer quit because it was a company of engineers, how it’s becoming more beuracratic, how they’ve been riding the crest of their startup image for the last decade, but it’s becoming less believable.
I really like many Google products though, and this gives me hope that Google is still a hacker’s company. Open-source? Yes please.
It’s really surprising Google’s start up image has lasted this long. I wish them the best as long as they develop in a way that creates platforms for new businesses. Open source is the logical means to achieving this goal.
I think it’s inevitable that Microsoft will leverage their stake in Facebook to compete on this area. If they somehow believe they can create another brand (i.e. bing) to reinvent themselves, they are totally misguided.
Good Point B. Ackles. And that is what is scary.
Why didn’t the brothers get their ass out of google and get VC funding for something like this?
Or did they sign their life away to google?
Those two aren’t twenty-somethings, do you think they’d have the energy to build Wave in their garage and have to deal with investors and the stress of dealing with the entire business side of things? For a hacker, Google seems like a fine place to work on a project like this; you can just focus on the product, you can showcase to audiences like this, you can get some of the world’s best engineers working on it.
+1
@Isaac Good point. Entrepreneurship is an investment/gamble of time. If you’re older than 30 it’s probably wise to reevaluate your risk and consider becoming an intrapreneur.
I’m sure the Rasmussen brothers & Stephanie are well compensated for their achievements.
Incredible stuff….
Eventually, comment feeds like this one may implement Google Wave.
Wave is totally going to revolutionize the web.
Sweet!
Um… wow!
Wave is a good example of how Google totally gets the web ethos; clearly in a way that few other companies do, particularly Microsoft.
It’s also a testament to the power of web standards and HTML5. And thank goodness for WHATWG and the browser vendors for initiating it.
“Google totally gets the web ethos.”
Agree totally. They say in their video that they want to contribute to the internet, and I believe them.
I can’t wait!
Amazing!
Very interesting how this announcement and MS’s Bing show how each company approaches product development.
MS – cover all the bases,
Google – get the web to help build out the product.
Blogged in detail at http://bit.ly/8g1qX
I didn’t see google ask for help to build out its search engine.
No it didn’t. But it’s output is based on stuff thats out-there. Other peoples content.
Do have a read of the post. It talks about how the fundamental thinking pattern of these 2 companies are structured by what their first products are.
ie. Operating System company Vs. Search company
this will be awesome !! … will wait for their invite ..
PS: 1 hr 20mins video …phew!
ok so i admit.. this is the first google product since search (yes the original product), that I think is very useful.. and necessary. it seems long overdue.. and only a web company the size of google could pull this off (many people have probably envisioned this, but the infrastructure and suppor needed to pull this off is huge)
and the way google is approaching it looks to be the right way.. lots of startups and competitors will need to rethink their strategies…
Hope not. I’m ready to settle on one standard that’s aggressively pursueing the demand of the customers, and relentlessly surpassing their thirst to be part of a NEW STANDARD.
Hopfully funds are available for rollout advertisment, and it has got to knock some sense into dizzy brains. FLASH, “SURF THE WAVE”
Hope not. I’m ready to settle on one standard that’s aggressively pursueing the demand of the customers, and relentlessly surpassing their thirst to be part of a NEW STANDARD.
Hopfully funds are available for rollout advertisment, and it has got to knock some sense into dizzy brains. FLASH, “SURF THE WAVE”
i think google is providing an infrastructure that’s in demand by customers.. and surpassing expectations with its extensibility.
I don’t really feel like they address why I need Google Wave. People will get excited and plenty will use it in the short term, but ultimately, we need the answer to “Why?”
I agree… for example, what am I going to tell my team? Why should they use it?
Show them the demo. If they don’t say WOW after watching it, you are probably working with the wrong sort of people anyway…
Sad….my unborn child will never know anything about email……MS office.
My head is dizzy from all of the intros of new communication standards…hope this becomes THE STANDARD. FINAL. THAT’S IT. ‘
Invite me to join trial, large family tree currently using FB and the old standard Email.
I WANT TO WAVE NOW
But, but… wait… Adobe connect, WebEx, LiveMeeting, don’t they all do that already? Get off the CoolAid, folks, and hang your pants out to dry.
Platform vs. Product mate. Dig a bit deeper into wave and you’ll see why its not WebEx
this isn’t even a platform. it’s a standard for communication with reference client and server. anyone can implement it.
Agreed, although just because “anyone” can means everyone will. For now at least it’s Google with a few dollars in their bank account and quite a bit of reach.
However, I second the “VCP” comments. The challenge is to gradually incorporate all the APIs into other Google services so that a few years down the road a significant amount of online communication happens in “wave-like” form.
Yes, Google Wave surfaces more of the direct communication mechanism including the wire protocol. But it is not true that the collaboration products I mentioned don’t have their own platform story.
WebEx -> “WebEx Connect Integration Platform” (I have not looked in detail at the APIs),
Connect -> CoCoMo,
LiveMeeting -> “Unified Communications Platform” and “Live Meeting API”
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that Google Wave and the others are exchangeable. The differences is that Google Wave tries to enlist the web community to develop the platform and you get the source code etc.
But as far as the features are concerned and unless you get a kick out of the fact that it is working in Chrome without a plugin we have seen many of these collaboration use cases elsewhere, already implemented.
in fact, microsoft has been working on Communication & Collabotation (SharePoint) technology for years and Google Ware looks like is just Online version of that. btw, microsoft already start to offer the services online.
I’m surprised no one is comparing it against with “Lotus Notes” (however awful it was/is) or Groove (haven’t tested it – so can’t talk)…
lotus notes, oh man rofl
looks great for me. but for people, like my mom, which is pretty good in using email or other guys who are not in the business or not in the whole internet world, it has a high potential of being too complicated. all these functions, communication streams and where got what posted by who could be highly confusing. which often is the case when you want to create a “simple” application that combines a lot of different things in one.
but lets see how it looks on reality.
the demo shows a variety of uses. a client could be made to have the most basic functions. and anyone can create a client…
Yeah, that’s a possibility, it looks like it could be a thing that’s used by a few million tech-savvy people and no-one else.
However, companies might find it very useful, once they get it sussed out, which will lead to a much greater penetration; possibly universities as well. It’s potentially a great tool for group colloboration.
Even so, I don’t see this being adopted by the mainstream; I’m trying to imagine trying to explain to my Gran how this new-fangled ‘wave’ things works when she’s just figured out email.
Google Wave looks great, but it won’t kill good ol’ email.
You’ll still need a regular email account to register to online services such as Facebook, forums and basically anything else.
If i’ve understood this correct it’s still email in the sense that you keep your john.smith@mail.com account but you hook it up with this new protocol instead of POP3 or IMAP etc.
Or am i completly wrong? I wonder what happens if I send a message to someone with a regular mail from a wave account. Will it spam the regular mail into oblivion?
Just what the world needs – yet another communications medium to check when you return to your desk – work phone, SMS, voicemail, email, company intranet, Facebook and now Google Wave. Wonderful.
He he, True, but if this becomes a hit.. in 2020 you’ll check: Google Wave & Company intranet.
SMS > Wave.phoneApp
VOICEMAIL > Wave.GoogleTalk
EMAIL > Wave
FACEBOOK > Wave
You could even check your workphone over wave with some crazy app.. ha ha
I’m all for the Wave but good God, are you really going to foist THAT logo on us.
I’m all for the Wave… but come on, are you really going to foist THAT logo on us?
I’m all for the Wave… but Gosh, are you really going to foist THAT logo on us?
In terms of creating an all-in-one Communications and Collaborations Brand, Google Wave is right on the money.
Google Wave is the type of Web Based Office Product that Microsoft should have been developing for their own Web Based versions of Microsoft Office and Word.
Google Wave could also become the major ‘killer app’ within Google Docs, especially for Global Businesses.
But to address a key point which most others are stating in their replies. Not everyone in the mainstream marketplace will understand the full workings of Google Wave.
So perhaps Google could also place an easy to use edited version inside of Google Wave, which your favourite Gran would learn to love.
Good idea with the “Gran version”.. But I don’t think Google would make it, but let someone else do it.
One thing is sure, there will be a XS-wave version.
I can’t wait until we vomit Google,. when they get too big that people actually start hating them like Microsoft.
Google seems determined to “OWN” the web. I’m sure government will step in at some point and curb their appetite.
I am all for innovation, but not for one company using their prose to take ownership of everything on the web by tracking what we do and say on the internet.
Would you want Donald Trump to own every block where you live? I can’t wait for government to step in and curb the lions den.
Amazing! I think your right though Couger that is it only a matter of time before a government whether it be the US or somewhere else will do something to curb what it seems to be their slow take over of the web. But is it Google’s fault that they are so damn good at what they do.
Greg,
I think the world should define the Web as “Media” and provide legislation to prevent one company from buying up all the media real estate out there.
This will happen, however…I hope it happens sooner than later.
They do a great job, but they also do a great job of stealing others innovation (improving on it like the chinese) and buying up popular media sites e.g. “YouTube”
I haven’t felt like this for a while… once was when I was handed a copy of Flash 5 from a colleague and dived into to coding. Another was when I saw my first demo: Juice by Psychic Link.
This is a paradigm shift. Any programmer worth their salt can envisage this sort of idea, but to build it, and make it available, and following it through… wow.
It’s a new protocol, and there have been debates about the need for a new protocols, but this is open source, and has the ideology to cover enough bases that it could supersede existing protocols. If Wave gets its way, SMTP will be forgotten. FTP will become as arcane as telnetting now.
this is one small step closer to the singularity
Awesome, this is web 3.0, this is a revolution!
Gil Scot Heron said back in 1974 that the Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
He is right of course cause today the Revolution will take place over the Internet by the tech boys.
VIVA GOOGLE!
As usual making all the right fuckin Waves.
You have to realize that there is no guarantee that any particular break is actually firing when the image was taken. I’ve looked at some well known surf spots on Google Earth that show up flat in the image.
Anybody have any invites to the Dev preview?
Wow!!!
It’s a revolution!
Google-docs now with avatars )))
Mailing-lists with pictures )
Come on…
It’s nothing more.
Facebookers won’t use it, because they are fine with what they have.
It can’t be used for business as most of people you communicate with will stick with e-mail.
Google would have to spend tons of money to make it a substitute for e-mail.
Very impressive. I’m already hooked!
This video just confirms that Google keeps being ahead of the wave…
This appears interesting, but it could easily turn into just a massive spam platform. What safeguards are being put into place to prevent people from posting ads between every character you type in a wave? If there is too much control over access, collaboration will suffer, and if too little, content will be overrun with noise. Finding the right balance is likely to be a real challenge for this platform.
True!
The creator of the wave owns it. Only people he invites can participate in the wave. Simple solution, don’t invite advertisers into your waves. This isn’t like email. Advertisers won’t be able to spam waves out to people because if they did, the people would just vandalism the ad. They’d have to send an individual wave out to every person which would cost them far more bandwidth then mass emailing.
I had the same idea as WAVE many years ago (and wrote feature specifications), and we were/are developing it, so I’m none to chuffed, but it’s nice to see the idea vindicated by a company whose infrastructure will hopefully support it. I have been telling my team that email will be dead for years thanks to collaborative documents and more.
Friendfeed 2.0?
If you can’t make it simple, simply don’t make it!
This thing is a mess.
3 links: here, here, here
http://www.w3.o...ips/noClickHere
Google wave just killed MSFT outlook!!!
yes, this wave is so cool, great, magicful… but where is enter key? Letters in real time is like a diarrhea
BOOOOOOOOOO. I love it