Google's new "Wave"; was the name actually inspired by Firefly?

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UPDATED: Friday, December 18, 2009 00:34
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PENTHOS

Sunday, May 31, 2009 3:36 AM

Curious if the name of Google's new application called "Wave" might be Whedon-inspired, I watched the developer preview just a few minutes in to the video and I became certain of it.
The presentation includes the lead programming engineers and project managers making multiple Firefly/Serenity references and even the "Wave" program itself prints the words, "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!" at the bottom of the screen when it unexpectedly crashes (it's still in development).
Kudos to Google's programmers for their good taste and for creating what looks to be a frikin' awesome new application!

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T3HMOTO

Sunday, May 31, 2009 4:04 AM

Yeah there was just another thread on it, but I'm sure it was - I think the guy said "shiny" several times throughout the preview. Cool stuff :D

CLJOHNSTON108

Thursday, December 17, 2009 1:25 PM

From Wikipedia...

Quote:
Etymology

The name was inspired by the Firefly television series[14] in which a Wave is an electronic communication (often consisting of a video call or video message).[14] During the developer preview, a number of references were made to the series such as Lars Rasmussen replying to a message with "shiny", a word commonly used in the series to mean cool or good, and the crash message of Wave being a popular quotation from the series: "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"[2][15] Another common error message, "Everything's shiny, Cap'n. Not to fret!" is a quote from Kaylee Frye in the feature film Serenity.
During an event in Amsterdam, Netherlands[16] it became apparent that the sixty strong team that is currently working on Wave in Sydney, Australia, use Joss Whedon-related references to describe, among others, the sandbox version of Wave, called Dollhouse after the TV-series by Firefly producer Joss Whedon, which was aired on Fox in the U.S. The development of external extensions is codenamed "Serenity", after the spaceship used in Firefly and the 2005 motion-picture spin-off of Firefly, Serenity.

JONGSSTRAW

Thursday, December 17, 2009 9:07 PM

Next out will be the new digital camera....The Capture.

MICJWELCH

Friday, December 18, 2009 12:34 AM

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