The paradigm shifts again..
As written in the #140conf piece, we discussed the paradigm shift that occurs in social media.
Before we had written that piece I had not seen the Google Wave developer video that Google unveiled to developers.
The social media paradigm shifts almost continiously. MySpace was all the rage and then Facebook opened up and took over. Twitter and Friendfeed are fighting tooth and nail for market share.
But the one thing in common that all these share is that they are a) propietary b) 3rd party stuff only available via API’s
At the conference in this video Google fired a warning shot into the sea of social media with their new App called “Google Wave”
If Google fulfills their promises made on the video, Wave will be an open source application runnable on your own server. Yet as you see during the demo, even though you are running your own Wave instance, you can interact with other Wave instances and “the data is not saved by Google.”
This is pretty impressive if Google hold true. They have interfaces built for Twitter, Google Maps and others.
If the developers will embrace it, it should yield some pretty interesting things.
The paradigm shifts again………