Google Wave is not dead yet - now at Apache(waveprotocol.org)
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Google Wave is not dead yet - now at Apache
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to this day I have yet to see any major UI problems -- and I have used Wave alot in real collaboration situations. It has worked excellently for just that, collaboration. Only thing missing is a gTalk chat window/which the original Etherpad has so I will probably move to that as a wave replacement.
I don't share your feelings about Wave's UI. I quite liked it, with the exception of the scroll bars.
I'm a huge fan of Wave's UI and wave in general. My friends and I have used it every day since it's release. We love it and our only complaint is that it is occasionally sluggish.
Wave isn't dead, period. If you watch traffic sources while accessing Google+, you can see wave.google.com being called. The underlying tech has been incorporated, if only at an API level, in Google+.
Is Apache becoming a graveyard for dead or dying projects? First OpenOffice and now Google Wave. What's their reasoning behind these moves?
Both Wave and OO.o are fairy complex projects and I'm afraid that the pace of their development will suffer severely without a strong company backing.
Both Wave and OO.o are fairy complex projects and I'm afraid that the pace of their development will suffer severely without a strong company backing.
I think the reasoning is that Apache is about the only place where you have a strong open-source community that is acceptable to/has experience with "the enterprise" (see: their various Java projects).
Exactly?
Wave, OpenSocial, OpenOffice: a bunch of great open ideas that never got support from their original corporate overlords. So they're dumped into the Apache Incubator, where they die a slow death.
It's really a shame. I remember investigating a project that would have solved a big need I had at the time, but was worried about a couple of bugs. I remember almost going with it, since I had faith that an Apache-backed product wouldn't langish. 18 months later still no commits.
Wave, OpenSocial, OpenOffice: a bunch of great open ideas that never got support from their original corporate overlords. So they're dumped into the Apache Incubator, where they die a slow death.
It's really a shame. I remember investigating a project that would have solved a big need I had at the time, but was worried about a couple of bugs. I remember almost going with it, since I had faith that an Apache-backed product wouldn't langish. 18 months later still no commits.
Yup, been in the Apache Incubator since last year: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-Wave-accepted-...
Curious that Apache call it "Google Wave", if it's no longer part of Google. (Or is it?)
This was announced by Google here: http://www.google.com/support/wave/bin/answer.py?answer=1083...
Google Wave is dead. Time will tell if Apache resuscitates it.
Has anyone taken a look at Piazzza, the new blackboard type collaborative tool for college classes? I have a strong hunch they're using google wave.
But I think the UI was 60% of the problem. When I first started using it, my brain started to hurt. They didn't even follow the golden rule. They had 2 same width columns in there. And everything looked cluttered and complex. Not very intuitive at all.
Another issue with it was confusing marketing. They called it e-mail 2.0, when it was nothing like that. People used it more as a collaboration tool. I had to use it every day for 6 months, too, and I didn't like using it at all.
Now, whoever even compares Google+ with Wave and says Google+ might fail the same as Wave, simply doesn't get it. They are worlds apart. From the moment I even saw the video ads, I had the opposite feeling about it than I had about Wave - a very positive feeling. And I keep having it after using it many hours a day.