> The GUI was not as fast as it could be, but it was cross-platform, user-friendly, and it worked. The UI was slow as hell, even practically unusable on someth

> The GUI was not as fast as it could be, but it was cross-platform, user-friendly, and it worked. The UI was slow as hell, even practically unusable on something like a netbook at the time. > I'm talking about Google Wave. It was federated, it was very advanced, and it failed spectacularly. Keep that in mind as you make further predictions. As far as I remember Google suddenly decided to drop it after a very very short time frame. This combined with the bad experience of a slow UI practically buried it in the ground and the world moved on. What failed there was Google, we do not really know if the general concept of wave is a fail neither if its federated protocol is a fail. Most importantly I don't think wave tells us anything about the prospects of federal social networks in general.