Comments on: Google Wave users receive fail-tastic sunset notification

By: Rustam Mirzoev

Rustam Mirzoev — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:27:00 +0000

I doubt there really would be wage issues at google, no idolising, but there tend to be stronger motives for such strategic decisions.
My take is it was early and collaboration is in childhood. Still, if there are fellow wavers left – please post what other services allow cntextual communication.Walkaround seems a complicated solution, there is a beta of Rizzoma.com – a saas, that allows to export waves and then edit them, no need to run own server.

By: George Shute

George Shute — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:04:00 +0000

It really was a better evolution of email. Wave was a great product, but I just think it was a bit ahead of its time. I also think that it would have helped if it was in a more stable state before they had allowed an open public beta. I also wonder if maybe they could have used a better name, or a fuller name, to better describe it and get users in the right mind-frame for it. Maybe, Wave Messenger or something.

As you say, at least it’s open source, so something may get done with it a few years from now. I would really love to see it make a comeback in a few years. The capabilities for something like Wave on a smartphone is amazingly great and beats the crap out of the multiple clients that people are required to currently run.

By: Mordicai

Mordicai — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:45:00 +0000

Un-Dumb Google Reader, please. Trying to compete with Facebook will just subject you to the same doom…eventually, your people will leave. I get that Zuckerberg saw people & said “forget customers, those are products!” but the thing is…people are free range. They’ll get bored & leave. Google should strive to avoid short term black holes…but instead, they are going for broke on Plus? Ugh.

By: Aaron Gilliland

Aaron Gilliland — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:14:00 +0000

I thought it was spam, at first. I expected el-Goog to have some kind of semantic/context matching pixie dust actively sifting every email for rerors.

By: elix

elix — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:06:00 +0000

Until I saw the subject line, I thought Larry Page had decided to launch some strange new companion to Google Wallet. It’s a whole toolchain in the making! Next, Google Jobs, with a Mechanical Turk variant.

I liked Wave, but, even in Chrome, it was clunky as hell. However, the real-time collaboration features I liked have found their way into Google Docs, so, I’ll call it even.

By: Greg Gazin

Greg Gazin — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:34:00 +0000

I rec’d that email, but truthfully, because I gets so many in one day, I didn’t notice it.

By: CountZero

CountZero — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:41:00 +0000

I think this is the first I’ve actually heard of it.

By: invictus

invictus — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:06:00 +0000

Same here. Used it quite successfully for a cross-continental writing/research team. At least until the thread got long enough that simply loading it took 3-4 minutes. Navigating to specific event markers? Forget it.

By: OgilvyTheAstronomer

OgilvyTheAstronomer — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:11:00 +0000

The Wages of Fail.

By: Christian Ellis

Christian Ellis — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:05:00 +0000

Wave always seemed like a solution looking for a problem.

By: Erica Packington

Erica Packington — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:42:00 +0000

@forwardourmotto:disqus I LOVED Wave and used it to very successfully in collaboration with my software developer for a year long project we co-managed. As far as I can see, the features haven’t really been integrated elsewhere (not in a way that supports the kind of working process we’d developed) and I MISS IT.
Le sigh.

By: Eric0142

Eric0142 — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:28:00 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discontinued_products_and_services

By: Jesse Ewles

Jesse Ewles — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:26:00 +0000

Most of Waves best features have already been divided between Plus, Gmail and Docs. It was an experiment. No big deal.

By: bob ross

bob ross — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:05:00 +0000

just curious, what other services have the cut. I’m apparently out of the loop

By: AviSolomon

AviSolomon — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:13:00 +0000

I hear that Larry Page reconciled with Steve Jobs and drank the “Focus” Kool-Aid:
http://libwww.freelibrary.org/authorevents/podcast.cfm?podcastID=862

No wonder that Google is paring down services right and left and many idealistic senior execs are leaving:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jw_on_tech/archive/2012/03/13/why-i-left-google.aspx

By: Andrew Williams

Andrew Williams — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:30:00 +0000

“Did you mean Google Wave?”

By: a_w_young

a_w_young — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:02:00 +0000

Not as good as when I got a customer service screen for “Sony PayStation”

By: Werner Von Goetz

Werner Von Goetz — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:37:00 +0000

ZOMG a typo!!!

By: kmoser

kmoser — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:11:00 +0000

Damn you, autocorrect!

By: HenryPootel

HenryPootel — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:09:00 +0000

I’ll wager someone got the wave for this.

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:54:00 +0000

Ha, I got that email and didn’t notice it. Google Docs is pretty much Google Wave anyway.

By: Eric0142

Eric0142 — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:34:00 +0000

I was going to joke about this on Facebook, but there’s nothing funny about Google Wave. EXCEPT EVERYTHING.

By: forwardourmotto

forwardourmotto — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:53:00 +0000

*sigh* I wish I wasn’t the only person who loved Google Wave :(

Although I partially blame Google for letting the hype get out of hand and not sticking with it. Oh well…it’s open sourced I guess…

By: Jason Baker

Jason Baker — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:29:00 +0000

From what I hear of the salaries over there, I have to say I wouldn’t mind receiving a Google Wage myself.