Google Wave is going to do a lot of these same kinds of things.
But the company's attempts at launching social-networking tools, Google Buzz and Google Wave, never caught on.
Apart from Android, Google has produced a series of flops like Google Wave, Google Buzz, and Orkut.
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So, even though I tried Google Wave last fall and hated it, I decided to give another go.
Their answer, called Google Wave, was unveiled in May 2009 and is now being tested by thousands of users worldwide.
Ours is not a cynical effort to ride the Google wave to capture page views or audience (though we certainly want to improve our performance in these areas).
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Google Wave, which was three years in the making, was designed to be a tool to help teams collaborate - incorporating various strands of project management into one place.
Privately, senior executives at Facebook worry more about the growth of Android than they do Google's overt social endeavors, like the failed Google Wave communications platform or the Twitter-like Google Buzz (which doesn't have much).
And if Google caught the wave of the larger crowd creating, spreading, refining, defining, correcting and debating information, clearly Facebook sees their wave being even larger, because it can offer all of that and a bag of chips.
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Google captured the search wave and shows every sign of positioning itself successfully for the mobile wave.
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Hyuck Choo seems to think that it can be put to use in short order in the medical field, but it remains to be seen if we'll see this in the next wave of Google Fiber rollouts.
In the past many had talked about Facebook being the first to go public and usher in a new wave of IPOs the way Google or Netscape once did.
In a sense, the foray by Google and Amazon into financing resembles the wave of loans made by big telecom and Internet gear makers to their customers in the late 1990s.
And even assuming that the Feds wave the deal forward, Google will have to sell it to a more important constituency--DoubleClick's clients, who worry that the company's new owners may end up competing with them.
Remember Google's previous forays with Buzz and Wave have been regarded as failures in the social arena.
Nonetheless Google Glass does clearly indicate that the next wave of disruption for the mobile computing device lies beyond the smartphone.
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Google hopes that this openness will encourage the wide adoption of the Wave protocols, while also ensuring that the Wave platform does not become fossilised and unable to move with the times, as happened to e-mail.
But Google too had been through a trough just before, after the failures of Wave and Buzz.
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The angriest Isaacson ever saw Steve Jobs was when the wave of Android phones appeared, running the operating system developed by Google.
Jeff Levick, who followed Armstrong from Google to AOL in 2009, is leaving the company as part of a wave of change in the executive ranks.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is joining Citigroup and Mastercard to set up a mobile payment system that would let Android users wave their phones in front of a small reader at a checkout counter to pay for something.
Google has been trying to tap the fast growing social networking market despite perceived failure of its projects Buzz and Wave.
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