As these days everyone is talking about this Google Wave thingy, I thought to start checking what it is really are. I got familiar with this platform firstly in one of Google IO 2009 videos where the team involved with this project introduced that. Well, nothing to hide and I should say that it created a Wow at that time but the same time I told myself isn’t it a little hard to work with?
Well it seems I was right at the moment. Robert Scoble called it overhyped and a too noisy product that brings un-productivity. He mentioned that it has the problems of IM and email together [Read here]. It is obvious from his review that he chooses twitter and friendfeed over Google Wave for mass real time communications. Also Louis Gray, wrote a great review about the service that is worth reading (you can see complexity there) [Read here].
Also Check Ray Ozzie comments about it and how he compares Live Mesh and Google Wave. He argues that [Read here]:
"if you have something that by its very nature...is very complex with many roles and the way you configure it...then you need open source to have many instances of it because no one will be able to do an independent implementation of it"
In my own view as a developer, Google Wave is going to be a good platform for me to develop real time applications but with one hiccup! I really don’t like the API they provide when I compare it to the Live Mesh API as a replacement option. I think we should wait for future updates.