Google Wave - An Old Wine in New Bottle

Google Wave has been unveiled in Google I/O and the videos and sneak peeks are already floating on the internet. Google is pushing Wave — which it rolled out to developers at the Google I/O conference on May 28 — as a new Web 2.0 collaboration tool.

After looking at the previews, snap shots and videos, it seems Google has nothing new now to offer to the internet users. The entire concept of Google Wave seems to be reminding me of some olden days of Yahoo Chat & MSN Messenger on which we all used to chat with friends, simultaneously listening to some good music or can play games with each other. In Yahoo Chat we used to enter into a chat room and start chatting with anyone we wanted. After looking at Google Wave I didn't find anything new or attracting. Just an Old Wine in a New Bottle. It seems Google is not getting any new concepts or ideas to offer. The Google Lab seems to be just revisiting the scrapped or trashed projects of Microsoft, Yahoo and many more....

According to Mary-Jo Foley on Zdnet.com; she says; "From what little I’ve seen and read about it, it looks like a mashup of mail, Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook. And to be part of the Wave, you need to write to yet another protocol, not protocols or standards that already exist." "But wait: Aren’t these limitations for which Microsoft often is dinged? Reinventing — or even (shudder) copying — existing products and technologies? Requiring programmers to write to their protocols, even if the protocols are “open” and/or managed by an independent body or standards group? And is it a coincidence that Google’s engineering chief Vic Gundotra is a former Softie?"

She also quoted; "One Softie, Program Manager Dare Obasanjo, did note in a tweet yesterday that Google Wave bears a striking resemblance to two Microsoft projects, one scrapped (Hailstorm) and one active (Live Mesh). Hailstorm was axed for a variety of reasons, among them that it created too much vendor lock-in.

TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington claimed Wave stole all the thunder from Microsoft’s Bing rollout. His parting shot: “And while Wave certainly deserves every bit of positive attention it got today, the fact that it’s an open source project didn’t hurt, either. San Francisco engineers love open source like east coast liberals love Obama.”

I think, Google is now very much shocked and threatened with Microsoft's decision engine Bing rolling out. It is for sure that Microsoft's Bing is going to give some tough competition to Google and Google now feels the heat.

However, we will have to see what kind of wave Google really creates with its Google Wave.