Lars And Jens Rasmussen: The Brothers Behind Google Wave

CNN:

(CNN) -- Lars and Jens Rasmussen were broke and jobless -- with only $16 between them -- when they made it big in the Web world by selling their idea for Google Maps.

Years later, after finding cushy employment at Google Inc., the Rasmussen brothers flew in May from Sydney, Australia, to California where they would debut their sophomore product, a Web application called Google Wave, which they say, quite audaciously, will kill e-mail and forever change online communication.

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Comments

[IDIOTA]

I guess that I am old because I don't understand the attractiveness of this paradigm for general use.

[EminemsRevenge]

Forget about the gimmickry behind the wave...let­'s do something RELEVANT and come up with the Google OS that will make Microsoft go the way of the Commodore 64!

[Eris23]

"When you type a message to a friend, he or she sees what you're typing as you type it."

And this is good why?