GigaOM Pro

Summary:

Just as criticism was rising that Google was being overshadowed in the realm of the real-time web by Twitter, the search giant introduced an ambitious new platform, long in the works, that represented, among other things, a bold step forward in real-time web use. Even if it doesn’t fulfill all of its ambitions, Wave will surely shed light on the ongoing debate about where real-time tools are most effectively applied, which facets of our lives we want in real time and which we don’t. This note looks at the scope of Google Wave and the implications of the technologies and challenges it reveals.