If you haven’t heard by now Google released a developer preview of their social networking tool and open source web playground Google Wave.  Currently there are scores of developers collaborating on new apps and features before the official launch of the product. It’s a very user friendly HTML 5 app that’s been designed with convenience and efficiency in mind, and the demonstration that was given earlier this year in San Francisco was very well received.

The collaborative design potential of this product as well as well as the management potential of Google Chrome and other oncomming cloud-based systems in my opinion truly reaffirm googles innovative and dominant role online today, and as the other towering giant beside Microsoft. I’ve always liked the way Google approaches their product development. Some may say it’s reckless and wastes a lot of time and money but Google likes to come up with all kinds of platforms or apps and then brainstorm uses for the technology afterwards or simply let them loose to sink or swim, sometimes pulling the plug halfway through the software development phase because they realize it’s just not economically feasible. Google is also famous for encouraging their engineers to work on pet projects outside of work. And with the new focus on open source products, nimble cost effective cloud-based management IT and high powered browsers like Chrome it looks like google is positioning itself to lead at least big business out of this recession, or to becoming a game changer once our global economy starts revving up once again. A simple money making approach; What will save companies time and money, the two most valuable things they have when trying to benefit from their human capital? Google appears to have this in mind when dropping several developments in favor of Wave, Chrome and their other Enterprise-class analytics tools. So is this a repositioning, right sizing, or just being quick on their feet? Some would even argue that it’s just getting back to basics and what you do best in these turbulent economic times.

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Tags: Googel Wave, Google Chrome, management IT, Open source software, software development

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