Google Wave and Network Effects
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This morning I stumbled on a great post by Dave Winer titled Why
didn't Google Wave boot up? where he writes
So why didn't Google
Wave happen?
Here's the problem -- when I signed on to Wave, I didn't see
anything interesting. It was up to me, the user, to figure out how to sell it. But
I didn't understand what it was, or what its capabilities were, and I was busy, always.
Even so I would have put the time in if it looked interesting, but it didn't.
However, it had another problem. Even if there were incentives
to put time into it, and even ...