I wish they'd done this from the beginning. They talked about Wave being an open protocol and that anyone would be able to write Wave servers and clients. Yet

I wish they'd done this from the beginning. They talked about Wave being an open protocol and that anyone would be able to write Wave servers and clients. Yet when it came down to it, they released a bare-bones client implementation. All the while they continued to hack on their Wave server and adding proprietary features to their fork of the client. So it never really became as open a project as they had promised. Day after day it became more of "just another Google project." It was no surprise to me that interest waned. Their interface was pretty complicated, hardly anyone had accounts, and all of the data was hosted at Google instead of being spread out amongst various providers as email is (and Wave promised). I still think Wave is a great protocol/server/client. I hope much will be done with it by the open-source community.