Open Source As A SaaS Endgame: Google Wave’s Rebirth And Its Future
Regular readers of this blog know that I have long been advocating Open Source as a SaaS Endgame. It is my argument this kind of escrow will help build customer trust on SaaS, especially from smaller SaaS vendors. This is the beauty of open source. It not only reduces the risk for SaaS users, it […]
Video – Live Editing In Google Wave
From time to time, we share videos related to the topics we cover here at Cloud Ave. The idea behind these posts is to share the videos we liked or found important with the readers of Cloud Ave. Regular readers of my post know how much I loved Google Wave. Google Wave is on death […]
What’s the Next Casualty After Google Wave?
When Google announced that it is going to kill Wave, my first reaction was – wait, what will happen to Google Wave in Google Apps? So I looked for a post on Google Enterprise Blog. The post basically echoed what was mentioned in their official blog post . It didn’t clearly say if it’ll discontinue […]
Are We Nearing The End Of Google Wave?
Techcrunch has a post talking about the possible demise of Google Wave, its much hyped real time collaboration platform. Even though it is not completely unexpected, it is a bit of a shocker for me personally. Maybe it was just ahead of its time. Or maybe there were just too many features to ever allow […]
The Best Google Wave Gadgets, Extensions and Robots for the Enterprise
In large part Google Wave has been ignored by the enterprise due to many factors (I’ve listed them below). As you’ve probably read, Wave started as a huge splash but has been reduced to a ripple as of late due to the lack of a “killer app”. Yet there are some enterprise-worthy applications for Wave […]
The Google Buzz Guide for the Enterprise (with Buzz Matrix)
There’s been a lot of noise over Google Buzz this past week. I haven’t seen an article about Buzz’s impact on the Enterprise so allow me to chime in. First, the impact of Buzz has been tremendous. Compare Google Wave search results with that of Buzz: Buzz (B) and Wave (A) As you can see […]
Google Buzz Is New Black – Solving A Problem That Google Wave Could Not
Today Google announced Google Buzz. Watch the video: The chart below shows the spectacular adoption failure of Google Wave as a standalone product. This was predicted by a lot of people including myself. As Anil Dash puts it Google Wave does not help solve a “weekend-sized problem”. Besides the obvious complex technical challenges there are three distinct […]
Integrating Google Wave into the Enterprise
The one we’d all been waiting for – ever since the Rasmussen brothers announced Wave at Google I/O in May, we’ve been waiting for some hard examples of the power that Wave can bring. Gregory D’Alesandre (Dr Wave), Product Manager for Google Wave ran presented three examples of Wave integrations from Novell, ThoughtWorks and SAP. […]
The Google Enterprise Strategy Starts with Google Wave
Eric Schmidt – Google CEO Sources inside Google are telling me that 2010 is really the ‘Year of the Enterprise’. For a company better known for its’ consumer products, this is a major shift in strategy. They’ve been steadily laying the technology foundation for the enterprise blitzkrieg and expect to start profiting from it next […]
SAP’s Gravity Prototype: Business Collaboration Using Google Wave
Alexander Dreiling of SAP Research in Brisbane, Australia, has posted on a great prototype called Gravity that uses Google Wave to collaborate around business process. Gravity is a Google Wave “gadget” that can be added within the Google Wave client. It lets participants in a wave use the business process modeling functionality of SAP Business […]
What does the Crowd think of Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media?
You may have noticed Google’s new search suggestion feature that purportedly makes search recommendations based on what people are searching. I decided to capture a few of the more interesting ones related to our space. There you have it. Now you see what the crowd is thinking. Are you surprised by the results? […]
Google Wave: Few Thoughts
Google Wave, Google’s hot collaboration and communication platform, is rolling out at a snail’s pace. After a long wait, I got my invite and I can now wave. In the last ten days, we have seen too many articles in the blogosphere on the topic and we also saw an explosion of posts on Google […]
Your Google Wave Invitation is In the Mail…
…and you will soon receive it. Just as soon as Google hires more carrier pigeons. Update: Wow, we’re getting inundated with invite request. I hate to disappoint readers, but we don’t have invitations to give away – at least for now. This post was an ironic reference to the fact that invitations sent out last […]
How Bad Do We Really Want Google Wave?
A case study in how you leverage community on Twitter, Google Wave has been overpowering the Twittisphere with requests for Google Wave invites. I’ve highlighted some of the outrageous, funny and sarcastic tweets. Below is a thumbnail sketch of went went on during the last 24 hours: The Shocking: Some people will do anything to […]
Scammers Jump on Google Wave Demand
In a not unsurprising turn, scammers have jumped on the demand for Google Wave invites to spread their latest round of fake A/V Software. This is not something that anyone in information security is going to be surprised by, a concurrent event that many people want to participate in or know of being used by […]
