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I can't help but think that Google Wave missed out. They were no where close to being ready when they released it. Some of the no-brainer features like deleting

by pavs 17y ago

I can't help but think that Google Wave missed out. They were no where close to being ready when they released it. Some of the no-brainer features like deleting waves and removing someone from a wave is just being introduced in the last few months. The speed was always an issue, but it only improved in the last few months. And the UI, while beautiful, is not intuitive (three panels as opposed to two panels in gmail?). The whole concept is great, but their delivery failed. I am sure there always will be niche users who love wave and use it often but doubt it will ever have anywhere close to wide adoption like email.

stcredzero 17y ago
Someone else will grow another service into a 70% Google Wave. Once that prepares people for the idea, something like this will succeed.
- g33k 17y ago
  Who that someone will be ? Answer : Mr.Time will tell us ;)
g33k 17y ago
True indeed, have a look at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=160772&id=630916001&l=58eb52eb1f http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=160772&id=63091600...
yanw 17y ago
I'm no sure it was properly launched yet, you still need an invite (although anyone whose interested already got in) and it has a 'preview' sticker, if they would tweak the UX and somehow integrate it with docs or something it could be a valuable addition, the potential is still there.
- stcredzero 17y ago
  A Google Wave enabled sidebar for group editing Google documents would be great. The prevalence of "widescreen" format for monitors actually makes this more comfortable.
danh 17y ago
Performance is still awfully horrible. Just opening that page causes Safari to hang for quite a while, and memory use to shoot up from ~40M to ~670M. That's not even close to being acceptable.
- donjaime_hn 17y ago
  To be fair, I think the performance of that page has something to do with the embed API, and the face that it was trying to load multiple copies of wave. The actual wave client performs pretty well now.

by pavs 17y ago

stcredzero 17y ago

Someone else will grow another service into a 70% Google Wave. Once that prepares people for the idea, something like this will succeed.

g33k 17y ago
Who that someone will be ? Answer : Mr.Time will tell us ;)

g33k 17y ago

True indeed, have a look at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=160772&id=630916001&l=58eb52eb1f http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=160772&id=63091600...

yanw 17y ago

I'm no sure it was properly launched yet, you still need an invite (although anyone whose interested already got in) and it has a 'preview' sticker, if they would tweak the UX and somehow integrate it with docs or something it could be a valuable addition, the potential is still there.

stcredzero 17y ago
A Google Wave enabled sidebar for group editing Google documents would be great. The prevalence of "widescreen" format for monitors actually makes this more comfortable.

danh 17y ago

Performance is still awfully horrible. Just opening that page causes Safari to hang for quite a while, and memory use to shoot up from ~40M to ~670M. That's not even close to being acceptable.

donjaime_hn 17y ago
To be fair, I think the performance of that page has something to do with the embed API, and the face that it was trying to load multiple copies of wave. The actual wave client performs pretty well now.