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12.14.09

I’m Dumping My Blog for Google Wave BIG, Business Intelligence, Business Stupidity, Ideas, Investing, Market Watch, Online Identity, Personal Development, Politics, Random Thoughts, Review, Semantic Web, Software, Software Development, Unified Communications, User Interaction, Web 2.0, blog, google wave, predictions, social networks, technology | Comments Off
When I first started blogging in 2006 or so, I loved the idea of being able to have conversations with people all over the world, many of whom I didn't even know existed. It's served me really well in that respect, I've met a ton of people and developed my most important online social network. I have several relationships in the real world that developed because of blogs. Then Twitter came along, and was all real-timey and stuff. It's fun. It feels like a cocktail party. I can blurt out things that I think would make funny fortune cookies and ...
10.11.09

Looming Disruptions to the Software Industry BIG, Semantic Web, Software, Software Development, Unified Communications, User Interaction, app store, blog, disruptions, google wave, jason kolb, social networks, technology | Comments Off
I view a major shift in technology, like the one that I see materializing right now with Google Wave (the protocol), as a huge object crashing into a an existing landscape. There's this massive change right in the middle, a new space that has to be filled, and then all these fissures spidering out from the main event where the rest of the world is affected by that event--new spaces that must be filled with something. One of the fun things about technology disruptions is trying to figure out what the landscape will look like after the main event. It's those ...
09.24.09

A Vision of a Post-Wave Internet BIG, Online Identity, Software, Software Development, Unified Communications, blog, google wave, internet, jason kolb, predictions, social networks, technology | Comments Off
This is a follow up to my last post about Google Wave, er, XMPP. That post generated a ton of commentary and questions, and my goal here is to address a lot of them, as well as take a stab at outlining what a post-Wave Internet looks like to the average person. First, there were STILL some questions about why exactly Wave and XMPP are so cool. Well, the short answer to that is that the guys working on Wave did a number of things right.The Conversation The first thing they got right is the concept of a “conversation". This is not some ...
09.17.09

Google Wave: You need to pay attention to this. BIG, Online Identity, Semantic Web, Software, Software Development, Unified Communications, blog, communication, google wave, jason kolb, social networks, technology, unified communication, wave, xmpp | Comments Off
So here's the deal with Wave: If you deal in technology, and you get this one wrong, you'll miss the boat. And it's a big boat. If, on the other hand, you get this one right, you have the potential to do some incredible innovation.In a nutshell, this is the next revolutionary leap in Internet application architecture. Maybe the first truly revolutionary leap since HTTP itself.I've been wanting to write this post for a while, but first I wanted to read fully thru and digest the specs and available code. I haven't done any posts about XMPP for quite a ...