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Google Wave is the one that stands out on that list for me. It was such a fantastic and ambitious idea, but the execution was so buggy that it was basically un
by crusso 8y ago
Google Wave is the one that stands out on that list for me. It was such a fantastic and ambitious idea, but the execution was so buggy that it was basically unusable.
- theon144 8y agoYeah, Wave for what it's worth, seemed like the future at that time. But it never really even took off.
- chiefalchemist 8y agoThat, and they were stingy with invites. That is, unless your whole team had invites it was completely useless as team tool. Wave was everything Slack __still__ isn't.
- your-nanny 8y agothe invites really worked for Gmail; generated lots of buzz. Invites have not worked so well since.
- chiefalchemist 8y agoYeah. But Gmail isn't a team tool.
- your-nanny 8y agonor a walled garden social medium.
- anticensor 8y agoGMail is one of the two tools of Google with real use, other being the web search. All other tools are impermanent.
- kybernetikos 8y agoYou could send and receive email with a gmail user without being a gmail user - in fact it made people jealous to do so and was great advertising. You couldn't participate in a wave unless you were on wave. (The spec was open, but obviously in the early days there were no other implementers. Also the non-open UI made a big difference). I really thought they were going to fold wave into gmail, so that everyone on gmail would automatically be able to participate in waves and access them through the same interface as they did their emails. That would have been amazing. It was also just outgrowing its initial crashiness when they killed it.
- danoise 8y agoAs I understand it, also the multi-user features in Google Docs, Sheets were salvaged from Wave? If this is the case, there's a pretty big part of the codebase actually living on...
- lmm 8y ago> the multi-user features in Google Docs, Sheets were salvaged from Wave? I thought they were taken from Etherpad (which Google bought and killed)?
- hjnilsson 8y agoGoogle docs had multi-user features before Wave. Back when it was called writely.com even. Some features scattered out onto other Google products though (like hangouts).