So far, Google isn’t doing much to promote Google Wave to channel partners however this might change in the upcoming Google I/O conference which is scheduled for May 19-20 in San Francisco. At the Google I/O conference, there’s a Google Wave session, titled “Building Your Own Wave Provider.” According to Google, the session will allow attendees to:

“Learn how to build your own wave service. Google is open sourcing the lion’s share of the code that went into creating Google Wave to help bootstrap a network of federated providers. This talk will discuss the state of the reference implementation: the  software architecture, how you can plug it into your own use cases — and how you can contribute to the code and definition of the underlying specification.”

Reality Check

Outside of the paid search market, Google has had hit-and-miss success. Chrome (the browser) seems to be catching on. Chrome OS (the operating system) is a work in process. And Google Android (the smart phone operating system) seems like an emerging alternative to the iPhone.

On the applications front, more and more MSPs seem to be embracing Google Apps. I wonder if that trend will soon repeat itself with Google Wave.

(Via MSP Mentor)