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Google Wave – Looking for Failure

by Andrew McCaskey
Failure is Not An Option- It’s Our Objective

Failure is exactly what we want. Failure is exactly what we should expect. Success is what we should be afraid of in the upcoming introduction of Google Wave.

The best that we can hope for out of the 100,000 Google Wave users to be unleashed on Wednesday is a whole lot of failures. In fact, that would be the very best outcome – because that would indicate that we really don’t know what the new technology is useful for. And, with luck, there will be locked away somewhere, from some basement or garage, an application that will be dismissed by almost everyone as totally useless that will suddenly gain traction, and within a few years become so essential that we could not imagine lives without it.

The worst outcome is the limited adoption of Google Wave as a more-or-less successful implementation as another wiki like collaboration tool – the latest and coolest way to pass around notes during boring online meetings, or a way to allow spammers one more path into our attention window. With this sort of outcome, there will be no reason to switch, and Google Wave will join the list in the Deadpool.

So, it’s time to root for some failures, because that is going to be a successful start. {sharethis}

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