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How Google Wave is Going to Change Your Business, Career and Life

22 points by jrnkntl 17y ago

spitfire 17y ago
Yay! More breathless praise for yet another random web app. In plain english google wave is an collaboration tool, much like many that have come before. But this is written by google, so it'll probably be pretty good. Will it make your teeth whiter, improve your chances with women or fill your bank account? Not a chance.
- sant0sk1 17y ago
  It /might/ fill your bank account if the project succeeds and you develop around it.
- 1010011010 17y ago
  Well, there is a chance it will fill your bank account, since you can start several kinds of business around it (hosting, robots, gadgets), but I agree it won't whiten your teeth.
pierrefar 17y ago
More titles coming up in the next few days, just so we get them out of the way: How Google Wave will Make You a Better Lover Google Latest Wave of Invasion of Privacy Google Wave Upgraded to Tsunami Google Wave Downgraded to Ripple Why Google Wave Sucks Why Google Wave Rocks! Google Wave Should Be Written in C to Make it Faster Anything else I missed?
- ScottWhigham 17y ago
  lol - great list. I think there are few more to come: Why Apple didn't launch Wave How Google Wave Compares to Microsoft Groove|SharePoint Google Wave for the iPhone Google Wave API released! Ask HN: Have you actually tried Google Wave yet? It's quite possible that 1 or more of these already exist.
  - jsonscripter 17y ago
    And some more! Google Wave in Erlang PhD Student uses Google Wave to revolutionize something Google Wave in the Cloud Crowdsourcing Google Wave Microsoft launching Wave-like technology? Facebook bans Google Wave China bans Google Wave Ask HN: Review my new Google Wave API API App
SamAtt 17y ago
I don't know what world writers like this live on but it's not the world I live on. When I suggest a product at work the first question I get is "how do we get support if something goes wrong?" The second question I get is "how much staff retraining will we have to do?" and the third is "how do we know this is going to make us more efficient?" Wave is unsupported, hard to grasp (even many tech bloggers don't seem to grasp the concept), and has no proof of it's efficieny benefits. So I certainly wouldn't pitch it to management at this point.
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22 points by jrnkntl 17y ago

Yay! More breathless praise for yet another random web app. In plain english google wave is an collaboration tool, much like many that have come before. But this is written by google, so it'll probably be pretty good. Will it make your teeth whiter, improve your chances with women or fill your bank account? Not a chance.

sant0sk1 17y ago
It /might/ fill your bank account if the project succeeds and you develop around it.
1010011010 17y ago
Well, there is a chance it will fill your bank account, since you can start several kinds of business around it (hosting, robots, gadgets), but I agree it won't whiten your teeth.

pierrefar 17y ago

More titles coming up in the next few days, just so we get them out of the way: How Google Wave will Make You a Better Lover Google Latest Wave of Invasion of Privacy Google Wave Upgraded to Tsunami Google Wave Downgraded to Ripple Why Google Wave Sucks Why Google Wave Rocks! Google Wave Should Be Written in C to Make it Faster Anything else I missed?

ScottWhigham 17y ago
lol - great list. I think there are few more to come: Why Apple didn't launch Wave How Google Wave Compares to Microsoft Groove|SharePoint Google Wave for the iPhone Google Wave API released! Ask HN: Have you actually tried Google Wave yet? It's quite possible that 1 or more of these already exist.
- jsonscripter 17y ago
  And some more! Google Wave in Erlang PhD Student uses Google Wave to revolutionize something Google Wave in the Cloud Crowdsourcing Google Wave Microsoft launching Wave-like technology? Facebook bans Google Wave China bans Google Wave Ask HN: Review my new Google Wave API API App

SamAtt 17y ago

I don't know what world writers like this live on but it's not the world I live on. When I suggest a product at work the first question I get is "how do we get support if something goes wrong?" The second question I get is "how much staff retraining will we have to do?" and the third is "how do we know this is going to make us more efficient?" Wave is unsupported, hard to grasp (even many tech bloggers don't seem to grasp the concept), and has no proof of it's efficieny benefits. So I certainly wouldn't pitch it to management at this point.

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