I've worked on UC for most of my career and loved Google Wave. Conceptually they were right, but it required imagination on the part of the user and there was

I've worked on UC for most of my career and loved Google Wave. Conceptually they were right, but it required imagination on the part of the user and there was no bridge to the past. Instead of addressing this, Google killed off the product, and then all of their collab products over and over again. I've lost track and gave up on them now, and I think you really have to love Google to even bother with their UC stuff now, but Wave was a joy while it lasted.