Google wave : Let the predictions begin…
During the keynote today Google premiered something completely brand new called Google Wave. From the look of it looked like next-gen SMTP+XMPP protocol which allows email-like-msgs/instant-communication/collaboration using fully distributed architecture (similar to SMTP). The focus was on collaboration and notification. During the whole demo I was thinking just two things. 1) Twitter is screwed ! 2) Ditto facebook ! The solution proposed has a side effect of trying to solve the spamming issue as well. The key here is that they are not releasing an app on which people can login when its launched … they are instead releasing a protocol and possibly working opensource server which users can deploy and get running quickly. …won’t happen overnight…. But if they build this into gmail which has a large adoption rate, it could become the next big hot thing pretty fast. More here…. http://www.waveprotocol.org/ http://code.google.com/apis/wave/ http://wave.google.com/help/