Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Ya Know What Really Grinds My Gears?!?!

Nothing really, I just felt like making that the title of this little blog post.  I have to say though, I'm kind of disappointing in the Google Wave phenomenon (do-doo-do-do-do).  I mean, I was really excited about Wave when I first heard the announcement.  I waited patiently for my invitation, and when I finally got it, I was ecstatic to be a part of the "e-mail revolution".  I invited my friends, family, etc and a few of them joined in, but most of them never used it after that.  I still have my Wave account and I still use it, but from what I understand, after a little over 2 years worth of development, Google is essentially scrapping the program.    WHAT!? WHY!?  Email is so antiquated and inefficient it's mind-boggling! I really think Google has a good thing going with Wave and that they should continue to develop it as a replacement for e-mail on a large scale.  I think an advertising campaign al la iPod would do the trick since the world is apparently completely swept up by hype these days. But I digress.

They (Google) have released "Wave-in-a-Box" which is just a very basic Wave server setup that allows people to run their own wave servers sans the awesome Google gadgets, etc, but is that really enough?  Google has cited "lack of interest" as reasons for slowing development.  They are kind of leaving it to the community to dig in and make it whole.

Now, not to bash Linux (did ya catch the pun there?), because I LOVE Linux, but the lack of main stream popularity of Linux is due, at least in part, to the lack of real funded development.  Granted there are TONS of flavors out there, but apart from the most recent Ubuntu flavor, which was targeted directly at PC newbies, Linux has stagnated in the market and will probably never be a viable OS for the general PC user.  That, to me, is sad.  Linux has such great potential to be a real Windows replacement OS.  Maybe it's the general Linux community attitude that Linux is for geeks, by geeks and they don't, in some weird way, want Linux to be mainstream, but come on guys!


Anyway, the point is that Google Wave will end up going the way of Linux if they don't jump in and really nurture it into what it has great potential to be, and what we need to move forward in internet land.  If anyone has the power to replace email, it's Google.  So why are they stopping or at the very least, slowing WAY down?

That was more of a rant than I thought it would be.  I told you, the thoughts of a G-Raff are random.

I look forward to comments/opinions, etc.  BRING IT!

15 comments:

  1. As a user of Wave, I wholly concur.

    I only use linux when I have to, though. I'm just more comfortable with Windows and support for games, to be honest.

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  2. I've never even heard of Google Wave so thanks for the info.

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  3. Wave looks interesting. Shame, Google, shame!

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  4. the thoughts of a G-Raff are random..ture, ture.
    but wave looks nice

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  5. i agree, wave looked awesome but they kind of forgot about it

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  6. Yeah, geeks can be hipsters at time.

    Also, my favorite flavor of linux is mint (get it)?

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  7. I like ubuntu a lot, but it's more like a mac-like now.

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  8. Never heard of this but great stuff!
    Hope to hear more.

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  9. I got into the wave beta and I kinda liked it, but I just ended up forgetting to check it daily.

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  10. You know why am I here dont forget to hit my blog nice rage btw

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  11. I feel the same about google wave.

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  12. Yeah, always wondered what was happening with this project of google's, kind of forgot about it. Good post.

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