socialmedian: Is Google Wave Ready for Its Debut?

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Sep 16, 2009

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Exactly two weeks from today, Google Wave will make its debut on the world stage. It hasn’t even been four months since Google Wave was announced, but it has already captured the hearts and minds of communication, tech, and social media enthusiasts.

While we have explored whether the world is ready for Google Wave (and similarly, whether you are ready), perhaps this is the wrong question to be asking. You see, four months isn’t a lot of time to get a product as dynamic as Google Wave into a presentable format. The development version has had bugs and a high crash percentage.

So, with 100,000 invites going out on September 30th, is Google’s real-time communication platform ready for the spotlight? Or will Google have to push back the launch?

Google Wave Is Getting a Lot of Updates

Google Wave is still a developer product, which means that it’s supposed to be unstable, buggy, and under constant flux. But the September 30th release means that Google needs to have the product stable and (mostly) functional. Otherwise, the average consumer could lose faith in

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Koltregaskes,

Sep 17, 2009

Not really a debut with just 100k invites, particularly when some of us have already used it.