Google Wave in the 2010

A New year starts and this one will be the year of Google Wave.

Google like the great demos and great announcements, but when we tried the Google Wave Developer Preview in August we started crying. Nothing worked, at the first click, Dr. Wave used to appear and you had to refresh again…

Dr. Wave and his friend F5

Nowadays it’s hard to find Dr. Wave.

Other things that Google Wave has improved is the speed. Waiting 20-30 seconds for a wave of 4 or 5 participants was the rule more than the exception at that time. Now, you can open a wave of 100 blips and 400 users, in less than 10 seconds you will have downloaded the entire wave. This is not all, you can start reading and scrolling down, it works!, not perfectly but works. A few months ago this was impossible. The usability has improved a lot, and users appreciate the speed and stability as well.

Our friends of theshinywave.com talk about the 10 improvements that Google Wave has to do in 2010. Those are very interesting improvements and comments but onthetopofthewave.com has it’s owns.

We believe that one of the most important improvement is to continue expanding the federation protocol. In my experience when talking to companies who are interested in Wave, the most important concern is to get all the data into Google’s servers. Companies can not control the data flow and for the most of them this is not an option.

Still on the Federation, most of the companies don’t want to take out the federation capabilities of the “wave pack”, but they want to be able to delimit what kind of waves can be federated. This will be a great measure for companies to prevent issues about confidential information.

To become this possible it’s completely necessary work in wave moderation.

The fedOne will be the most important software that Google have to develop. And develop for the community. If you have a company, and you see Youtube I/O you start thinking how your company could use this new tool to be more productive. They will not develop anything or “waste” time learning how to use something nobody knows about. This is the reason why Google has to get more attention on Wave.

Another important point that they have to improve is the documentation. If you’re going to start developing a robot with this or with something like our tutorials.  Why do people develop thousands of plug-ins for Wordpress? Because the documentation is beautiful. Why is it not in Wave? Developers would appreciate it and the quality of the robots and gadgets would increase.

The first step to make Wave get to the public, is to make it be at work. And for this, the companies need some kind of stuff that they are interested in, on Wave. This will make this companies move, invest and develop. This is the key. If Google offers something else to this companies, everybody will use Wave. If not, Wave will be a disaster. Today I haven’t seen any robot or gadget that can really be useful for a company. We will see it on 2010? We hope so!

Do you have any other concerns about Wave for this new 2010?

Stay onthetopofthewave!

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