Google Wave To Live On As 'Wave In a Box' 59
snydeq writes "Google Wave will morph into an application bundle for real-time collaboration, according to a blog post by Google Wave engineer Alex North. 'We will expand upon the 200K lines of code we've already open sourced (detailed at waveprotocol.org) to flesh out the existing example Wave server and Web client into a more complete application or "Wave in a Box,"' North said, adding that the future of the recently flat-lined Google service will be 'defined by your contributions. We hope this project will help the Wave developer community continue to grow and evolve,' he said."
Economy behind wave? (Score:4, Insightful)
I guess google stopped it because they could not figure out how to allocate the amount of server infractructure needed and still earn money while keeping the service free. I actually would think that wave would reduce googles advertisement income because it would grow on the cost of other services while it has much harder demands on the computation power assigned to it than e.g. google mail. Its ok if an email takes a minute, but in the wave concept an minute would be long. With mail its even if it takes 20 Minutes a a busy time of the year.
Google's Wave product was dead on arrival! (Score:3, Insightful)
And here's why I say so:
First, they (Google), failed or refused to integrate Gmail capabilities with Google Wave! In other words, I could not send an email from within the Google Wave interface! What reasoning was behind that?
Second, I just do not understand the logic behind their modus operandi of having usage by invite only or even suspending [new] registrations as was the case with Grand Central.
This way of doing things is just a non starter in my opinion.
Wave.... um... really? (Score:2, Insightful)
First off, I truly thought the concept was great.
However, not being able to delete and modify prior threads is a HUGE (there is no super-duper-de-duper-wholy-shit symbol, so I'll just use the '4' to express my WTF-idness!) privacy issue-- 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4!!!!!
Why would you not even consider the fact that people post stupid stuff, then want to delete it?? 44444444444444444???????
Yeah.... I thought so Google, you are up China's respective bunghole. Does NSA know about this? You should send them a memo....
I want this ... (Score:3, Insightful)
.... why?
That was my reaction to the breathless introduction one of my coworkers gave to Wave. As he listed the "neatures", as I call them, I couldn't see how any of them would improve work flow without first totally disrupting it, and, even then, the improvements were more in explaining what we were doing than in actually accomplishing work.
Collaborate in real time, when the problem was that we were each working on multiple projects simultaneously? Find a solution that eliminates the distractions and allows you to spend 20 minutes concentrating on ONE THING, so you can recognize the consequences of each step, rather than making it easier to break your train of thought!
Yes, a pine box... (Score:5, Insightful)
Also known as a coffin.
It's something different than an email replacement (Score:4, Insightful)
One thing that most people didn't get about Wave is that its mayor strength is providing an environment where humans and computers can easily communicate and work together.
Don't think about Wave as a super-email or super-chat or super-wiki, although it's a bit of all this, think of an interface that can be populated with custom robots that give to you and your coworkers easy real-time collaborative access to backends specific for your the work you're doing.
Like a form in a web site, that's highly interactive and can be accessed collaboratively by many people at once.
It had huge potential, but unfortunately very few people "got it".
This is what Wave should have been. (Score:2, Insightful)