Estos dĂas de atrĂĄs, Google daba la noticia en su blog oficial de que daba por terminada la breve andadura de Google Wave, ese intento revolucionario de ser el siguiente paso del correo electrĂłnico. Mucho he leĂdo sobre âgurĂșsâ que se quedaron en paños menores tras el fracaso de Wave, de gente criticando a Google y de listillos que se creen que son los mejores porque sabĂan desde un principio que Google Wave se iba a quedar en nada.
I spoke back in the day about Google Wave and my expectations for this application, and after rereading them I can affirm that I still think exactly the same. Google Wave was a great tool for collaborative environments that would never have definitively replaced email. Because? Well, because people have customs and it is very difficult to change them. Iâm not saying with this that email is going to be immortal, far from it, Iâm saying that in order for people to get used to things, they have to take small steps and not giant steps like they did with Wave.
It still seems like a brilliant invention to me and Iâm glad that Google is going to take advantage of its technology in new applications and that they have released drag & drop to the browser as free software.
Currently I donât think there is any web application that offers so many features for so little (free) because we must not forget that apart from the immediacy when transmitting information through it, you could create plugins, spreadsheets, put videos, images, etc. in a really simple way.
Possibly one of the biggest mistakes that Google made with Wave was launching it prematurely, with an invitation system when it was not yet finished and that is why the first reviews (the most important) about the product were negative.
For my part, it seems to me that Google Wave will be a tool that will be valued over time, when it is no longer around, and that many people will miss it when carrying out certain collaborative tasks. Would it have been a solution to make it an exclusive Google Apps tool for businesses?
I am one of those who believes that our lives would be more difficult if Google did not exist and had published some of its tools (Maps, the search engine in all its variants, Gmail, Adsense, etc.) for free and open to the public, so those who are now tired of criticizing Google should perhaps be a little more restrained, because as they say âitâs all inventedâ and it is increasingly difficult to find the goose that lays the golden eggs, especially when we come to a point of comfort and computing perfection as great as the one we find ourselves in.