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RIP Google Wave

Last week Google announced they would stop development on Google Wave at the end of 2010. Google Wave was ahead of it's time. We wrote about Wave and your business in October of 2009. Although Wave held a lot of promise, we had problems finding the right ways to use the capabilities of Wave. But all is not lost on Google's experiment with Wave. Many of Wave's technologies, such as real time collaboration, have already made it into other Google products. Kudos to Google for being ambiti...

Google Wave – Read This

In a previous blog post we stated that Google Wave was not yet ready for serious business use (after all it is still beta software). However, that does not mean you shouldn't keep your eye on it! The best article we've read regarding Wave and it's potential was written by Jason Kolb on his blog.  If the technical jargon in Jason's post throws you off at least read this excerpt from the link above: Take CRM and ERP systems for example. Instead of customers emailing you about a sale and the...

Got Wave?

We have a few extra Google Wave invites to give away. They won't last long, respond NOW! UPDATED: Sorry, all the invites are gone! Better luck next time.

Google Wave – What should your business be doing?

Google Wave, the new communications platform from Google, has received a lot of press in recent weeks. Wave may have caught a lot of buzz, but is Google Wave something the average business should be looking at as a strategic piece of their business. Our answer today is "no". Wave is a fundamental change in business communications and we believe Wave, or something very similar, will replace email...eventually. However, we feel that Wave is 1-2 years away from becoming usable in a business envi...