Has the Geek world gone mad?
Since Google’s announcement of their messaging-slash-mail-slash-wiki-slash-platform, otherwise known as Google Wave, the world has been impatiently waiting for its release.
Unfortunately Google is making us to get down on our knees to get it. Hell, some people are ready to pay $27,000 to get it. Others are, I have to say it, abusing people to subscribe to their blogs, newsletters, marketing ploys to have a shot at one invite.
According to what I’ve read, they are releasing it little by little, because of scalability concerns.
I thought Google was good at scalability.
But of course, it could make sense, as Wave pushes the boundaries of what can be done with Real-time, Javascript, Python, AJAX, real-time apps have done to this day.
Some say Flash could’ve done this 5 years ago. But Google is so good at releasing Beta products with no advertising whatsoever, and yet the whole world-wide-web is yearning for them for days, months and sometimes what feels like years.
Some people are calling it sort of a glorified instant messenger.
Louis Gray has made the best review of it, in my opinion. He basically says “give it time”:
I would bet that after the initial surge of curiosity, normal conversations and information exchange will eventually take over, so this initial spike may be an exception rather than the new rule.
I was not one of the chosen ones, and couldn’t sleep properly, checking my G1 every two hours or so to see if I had been selected. I had no luck.
I’ve had access to my friend Joel‘s sandbox for months now and I’ve played with it and I think until everyone has access to it, Google Wave will just be the promised land that we are all dreaming about but it’s not really reachable or usable for that matter.
Let the other geeks play with it, break it and improve it.
We’ll be waiting for the real experience when it is no longer a @googlewave.com account.
Update: Robert Scoble says “Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype”
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