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Google Wave vs email vs chat vs forums?

Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 8:08 pm
by Isaac
Either from the improvements of my Linux Chrome browser, to the site itself, or a combination of the two, Google Wave seems to run much faster than before. As a result, for the past few days I've been playing with other Wavers (Wavers right?), making small talk about Wave (Many Wave conversations are about Wave...). I would really enjoy it if Waves were used instead of email, but I can't see that happening until Yahoo, M$, QQ, and other noise makers make compatible competing versions. The same thing goes for chat applications. However, I can totally see a web-forum being built off Wave, since compatibility with competitors is uncommon. And I thought Google's goal was to make Wave completely open source, so developers could make their own Wave sites. I can't find where the source code is or find anything referring to my assumption.
...your thoughts on this, that, or anything?

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 12:35 am
by Top Gun
Hate to burst your bubble, but Google decided to discontinue development on Wave. :P

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 6:33 am
by Isaac
I heard about this, but the product is still very usable. Do you think they might circle back?

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:53 am
by TechPro
Nope, they are integrating it with other products. Google Wave (as a standalone product) is a thing of the past.

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 12:17 pm
by Isaac
hmm...

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 6:15 pm
by Top Gun
From what I'd heard of the application, it didn't seem to serve any discernible purpose, which I think was Google's biggest problem as far as PR was concerned. It's one thing to talk about a catch-all program designed to \"reinvent\" the way corporate/creative teams share information and data, but when those individual entities serve their own purposes very well as-is, it's hard to make a good argument to mash them all together.

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:07 pm
by AlphaDoG
Cloud Computing = 4 paws down!