Discussing Google Wave with Lars Rasmussen

Posted on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009. Filed under Google, Interviews, Technology.

With the preview of Google Wave underway there are a lot of questions being asked about the platform, especially surrounding when it will be made available to the public, what new features Google is working on and whether or not more invites are going to be issued for early testers.

I discussed Wave with Lars Rasmussen, a member of Google’s technical team who is based in Sydney where he developed the product with his brother Jens. The audio is available for streaming or download in this post.

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  • i like his response around their approach to attracting developers by trying to give them freedom instead of restricting them. it's a key lesson to other vendors. it's a good question - in my mind, their extensive api, single sign on success, online free hosted ide through google apps, support of java / python as next gen languages have been critical factors for developers. as a developer, you want to know that you don't get locked into a vendor by the language you use, you also want to be able to take some risks without getting charged for it, and you want the platform to have enough users that the app can get critical mass without you having to spend time and effort marketing it extensively. a friend of mine develops a lot of different apps using google apps. he'd rather test 10 small scale projects, see which ones take off and then put more effort into the ones which actually work. the other way round would lead to more failures up front.
  • Ah brilliant, looking forward to listening to this. Thanks for posting it.
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