Assuming the Google Wave manages to inundate the world, what will its impact be?
Olga Kharif at Business Week tries to answer that question in the
article , "Will Google's Wave Replace E-Mail--And Facebook?" It's an interesting read.
New apps from third parties could be a huge business:
"But while the Apple App Store sells software only for Apple gadgets, Google's Wave store would be likely to sell apps that work on all kinds of devices, from laptops to Web-enabled TVs to smartphones"
And quotes from two analysts:
"It'll probably transform IM and e-mail systems," says Jeffrey Lindsay, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein. "Lots of imaginative developers will build a whole host of new applications. This is disruptive."
Brian Pokorny, VC at SV Angel LLC, says real-time communication "is a multibillion-dollar opportunity in the next two to five years." The VC firm is considering investing in developers who are creating add-ons for Wave.
