Wave goodbye to your business model as Google reinvents e-mail
Published: Friday, June 05, 2009  When I tell you Google is
about to change our most fundamental assumptions about living,
working and communicating online, I expect most of you to roll
your eyes and dismiss me.   But this time is different. The
product is called Google Wave and it really could change
everything. Wave was unveiled May 28 at the Google I/O
convention in San Francisco. Google gurus Stephanie Hannon and
Lars Rasmussen hosted an hour-plus demo of Wave that has
developers scrambling to build extensions for it, even as half
the Internet prepares to have their business models destroyed.
You won't really understand the power of Google Wave until you
see it. It's worth 40 minutes to view the demo online but I'll
do my best to explain it in text. (Video links are available at
michaelduff.net.)  Think of Google Wave as a canvas. Each new
Wave is a blank sheet of virtual paper. Most people will use it
like e-mail. You can start a Wave, sele