“Technologies are boring, what they do is what matters”
In case you’re not a developer technohead, and if you haven’t had time yet to digest your RSS feeds or daily newspaper, WSJ, or NY Times, you might have missed Google’s announcement from yesterday’s I/O conference. Reactions to the announcement from some of the biggest influencers have been all over the board which is usually a sign that something we ought to be paying attention to is sailing towards us from yonder horizon.
Tim O’Reilly was by and large impressed and thought that they were asking exactly the right question What would email look like if it were invented today?
Dave Winer was not so impressed. You can follow his comments and posts via his FriendFeed account here: Dave Winer He also has an interesting post on his web site Google’s killer app.
The folks at TechCrunch thought that Google stole all of Microsoft’s thunder. What just happened? Thursday was supposed to be Bing day
The GigaOm site scorched them with this Google Climbs to New Heights of Arrogance with Wave.
There are many more posts and opinions that you can find with a simple search on “Google Wave”.
Which leads me to the quote that started this post, from Jerimiah Owyang, of Forrester Research, and his analysis here Google Wave brings Web 2.0 lifestyle to work. Pay close attention to the 7 bullet points in his analysis that appear under the quote that starts this post. His may be the most reasoned analysis of the bunch.
