Comments on: The ubiquity of Google Wave http://canyonr.com/2009/10/the-ubiquity-of-google-wave/ Standing on the corner of Technology and Reality Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:47:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brakk http://canyonr.com/2009/10/the-ubiquity-of-google-wave/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Brakk Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:47:14 +0000 http://canyonr.com/?p=43#comment-40 Everyone said the same thing about Twitter. Nobody really knew what it was good for, not even the developers. Who wanted another chat service that also ate up your text messages? In the end (which I think is still yet to come), it was the user community that defined and shaped what Twitter is now. People started using @ to refer to other users and # for topic tags, so the Twitter service incorporated those as features into their software. I think the same will be true for Google Wave. It is a new tool, of which a use is yet to be defined. Everyone said the same thing about Twitter. Nobody really knew what it was good for, not even the developers. Who wanted another chat service that also ate up your text messages? In the end (which I think is still yet to come), it was the user community that defined and shaped what Twitter is now. People started using @ to refer to other users and # for topic tags, so the Twitter service incorporated those as features into their software.

I think the same will be true for Google Wave. It is a new tool, of which a use is yet to be defined.

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