The re-entrant coder

Google Wave screenshot

So I spent the last 1 1/2 hour looking at the promises of Google Wave. I have to say that I’m impressed. It is a great way of interacting with people and it tackles a lot of problems that you didn’t really knew you had. And that is part of the rub actually. Most people don’t perceive this as a problem. At least, not in my crowd….

Although it is very interesting technology-wise and the promise of all of this being open source is one that Google should be applauded for I cannot but fear for the acceptance. See, the problem with any kind of such site to achieve an amount of utility is scale. If only a fraction of the communities start using this technology then Google Wave is just yet another technology contender.

Anyway, more footage of the launch event can be seen below:

UPDATE: GigaOM also commented on Google Wave, arriving to much the same conclusion as I did: it depends heavily on the take-up they are able to generate with this.