Google Makes Waves with Wave
Audience members were recently blown away by the famed Rasmussen brothers at Google’s annual I/O developer’s conference when they unveiled their newest full-scale project, Wave. Lars and Jens Rasmussen earned fame (and a small fortune) when they sold what we all now know as Google Maps to the firm in 2005, and now they want to replace E-mail. No tool is more indispensable than E-mail; even in a world where social-networks are all-encompassing with their own proprietary “direct” or “private” messages, E-mail is still king. It’s also completely walled off from all the various social-networks as its own beast, a sort of underlying communications framework for the entirety of the Internet. Google wants to tear down that wall, and combine aspects of social-networks with the legacy E-mail we know today. Continue Reading…
