Google Wave is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking all to gather and it is also an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
 
When Google started marketing its new service Google wave, I was very eager to know and try my hands on it. I had lot of questions in my mind like how it works, which kind of functionality is there, etc… When I saw a video of Google Wave, I was very pleased & impressed. They have shown that they provide a bunch of such nice services like I can upload my document and share the same with all friends/colleagues at a time. I can discuss any topic with all friends at a time; even also I can share photos, videos and so many things.
 
But the reality is entirely different. When I started using Google wave, I am surprised because what I saw in video was very good but what I was using was very bad. Some of the functionalities are not working properly in all browsers. You can consider it as a bug of Google Wave. I am facing some problems like I can’t upload the documents and images, I can’t share it with anyone, I cannot delete the mails in the inbox. The funny part is that, there is no option available to delete emails from trash folder. Above all the scroll bar is not working properly.
 
According to me, Google Wave first release is total crap.

Technology companies, now a days are using different ways to market their products and brand, but Microsoft started entirely new way to market their products to cope up with their direct competition with Open Source world such as Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP.

A couple of days back I received an invitation from Microsoft to attend a Conference in my City and I registered for the same thinking I would know something better which I already don’t know. The subject of the conference was energy efficiency using new technology. When I attend the conference, the truth was entirely different from the subject. I also thought that the conference would open the new doors to meet the CEOs and CTOs of the IT companies in the city and act as a platform to exchange new ideas and technology.

But the fact was quite a different from my usual expectations. I am not sure whether it was positive or !@#$%^&*() ? Most of the conferences have less time dedicated to the marketing of the products of the sponsors of it but this time Microsoft used this way to market their newly launched products such as Windows 7, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and so on.

Most of the time spent by the speakers, were to explain what their product does and how they help you which was very painful when we especially spend our quality time to attend this kind of conferences. The conference did not serve the purpose of the title given to it.

I found that the conference was not meant to provide a platform but to fill the gap for the competition they are facing with the other companies and corporates. This should never be a way to market the products at least from a company like Microsoft.

The audience was mostly filled with developers and junior level staff of the companies which was never expected by the management staff of the IT companies attending this conference. This certainly helps Microsoft to spread the name of their newly launched product but never help them attract technology innovators participate in their ideas.

I personally am not against Microsoft Technology but do not expect to waste my time attending such conferences which do not serve the purpose of its own title.