Originally Posted by tauntobr

I'll be paying attention to Google Wave (since I find it interesting, and am a techie), but the majority of the population won't be, and of that I am sure.

Ya, I doubt I'll ever be in a group with people who can/will bother to figure this thing out. Most people only really know how to use Internet Explorer, MSN Messenger and Hotmail. I tried explaining to some of my group members for a project last year how to set up tables using HTML.... they had no idea what HTML was :(.

What is this? The link is blocked at my work.

Originally Posted by Fight0

What is this? The link is blocked at my work.

Google Wave is "a personal communication and collaboration tool" announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009.[1][2] It is a web based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wiki, and social networking.[3] It has a strong collaborative and real-time[4] focus supported by robust spelling/grammar checking, automated translation between 40 languages[2], and numerous other extensions.[4] It was announced in Google's official blog on Tuesday 21 July 2009 that Google Wave is expected to be released on 30 September 2009. At this point, the current view of the Google Wave Website[1] (which is a preview with the Keynote embedded), will be replaced with wave itself.[2]


From Wikipedia... if you can look at Wikipedia at work, the address is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_wave

That is all very true. I'm sure they know about how many people use each service. I think they are trying to offer all their services as one service in order to get more people to use it. Right now the services are kind of separated. Sure you can chat in gmail and open documents from gmail in gdocs but I'm sure a lot of people aren't using the many services google has to offer. So I think this is google's attempt at trying to capture more market.

I personally don't use anything from google other than gmail, their search engine and gmaps. But I think that I would be very interested in everything they have to offer in google wave. It makes everything easier to use (seems like it anyways) and if they are successful with this project I will use google wave for the many services it offers.

I'm preparing to use Google Wave. Google has been adrift for a few years, but they appear to have really thought Wave out. When they focus their energies, Google succeeds.

Google has pretty much dominated in whatever they come up with. Goodbye Yahoo, goodbye mapquest. G-mail has become pretty popular too. With Wave, they're going to be raking in a lot of cash. :]

Originally Posted by feonateresa

Google has pretty much dominated in whatever they come up with. Goodbye Yahoo, goodbye mapquest. G-mail has become pretty popular too. With Wave, they're going to be raking in a lot of cash. :]

And how do you think they will do that? Most of their services are free, and they make money by one of two ways:

- offering a "premium version" which you pay for. One example is the professional version of Google Earth, which costs hundreds of dollars.
- Advertising. Google makes pretty much all of it's money through advertising, and I don't want any Google software on my computer which natively supports advertising.

I also argue, from my previous post, that Google's office suite (Google docs) is not very popular, at least in my experience. Google does do well, but again, they feed niches rather than full-on markets.

Originally Posted by tauntobr

- Advertising. Google makes pretty much all of it's money through advertising, and I don't want any Google software on my computer which natively supports advertising.

Google Wave will be all online, meaning their advertising will not be on your computer. I'm pretty sure that it'll be somewhat like Gmail, you can barely see the advertising...

Originally Posted by tauntobr

And how do you think they will do that? Most of their services are free, and they make money by one of two ways:

- offering a "premium version" which you pay for. One example is the professional version of Google Earth, which costs hundreds of dollars.
- Advertising. Google makes pretty much all of it's money through advertising, and I don't want any Google software on my computer which natively supports advertising.

I also argue, from my previous post, that Google's office suite (Google docs) is not very popular, at least in my experience. Google does do well, but again, they feed niches rather than full-on markets.

I was thinking about that, hmm. All I know is, they're getting cash from somewhere and there's a lot of it. Being able to buy out Youtube for example and kill all other competition, when it comes to things like search engines anyway, says something.

There's also like, people who have google searches embedded within their sites - do you have to pay for that?

Originally Posted by feonateresa

There's also like, people who have google searches embedded within their sites - do you have to pay for that?

I don't think so... I think it's just a shortcut to the google search engine. There's a way to use google to search on 1 specific website but I can't remember what you have to type.

Google's OS is really interesting though, I'd like to think that we'll be knee deep in cloud computing in 5 years.

Originally Posted by Fight0

Google's OS is really interesting though, I'd like to think that we'll be knee deep in cloud computing in 5 years.

Interesting yes, but again it's designed to fill a niche market (the netbook). I'm NOT interested in a browser-oriented OS (Chrome OS is meant to look a lot like and work closely with the Chrome). Quite frankly, I'm a gamer, and I also use my computer for school related work with programs that frankly are only compatible with Windows, and that's the case for the majority of specialized software used around the world.

Well Chrome OS is open source isn't it? I'm sure most products will be quickly adapted to Google's new OS, but yeah we all know the smaller programs we sometimes use for school which could have issues. As for gaming, everything could be done server side with something like OnLive. But I think you're right that Chrome OS will serve people with netbooks first, but I don't see any reason why in the future it couldn't catch on with notebooks in general.

I don't really like the idea of cloud computing. If you don't have an internet connection, the computer is useless.

Originally Posted by Ownaginatios

I don't really like the idea of cloud computing. If you don't have an internet connection, the computer is useless.

For a lot of people, if you don't have an internet connection the computer is already useless. Cloud computing definitely won't be used for the most serious things (or will be extremely slow to adapt to it) like music production, software design, graphic design, etc. But for the average user, cloud computing will be a nice step up.


I actually was planning on learning to use Ubuntu and use a netbook with that, but now I'm just going to wait for Chrome OS.

I'm also the only one I know who prefers to use Google Docs over Word or OpenOffice.